marco 影音報

876愛的鼓勵 1訂閱站台

安眠藥不安眠　反而更好動！

A Kaohsiung doctor has discovered curious side effects of a US brand of sleeping medication. The doctor said several patients show compulsive behavior, repeating various actions uncontrollably. According to the doctor, one woman regularly eats herself to sleep.

As the name implies, sleeping medication is supposed to help you get a good night’s rest. But in Kaohsiung, a doctor discovered three women who first display the opposite effect, compulsively repeating some of their favorite or most common actions. One of them eats incessantly until she falls asleep.

They keep repeating certain actions, Dr Cai Ming-jyun said, especially cleaning, eating and shopping.

Dr Cai said the women all take the same commonly used medication made by a US pharmaceutical company and that as far as he knows, these are the first recorded cases of such side effects. Dr Cai said however that fortunately for the women involved, the effects don’t usually last long.

The patients improve after the symptoms stop, he said. The compulsive behavior has been observed to last for about 20 minutes after the patients take the medication.

Dr Cai said that the affected women usually have no idea what they are doing and that their behavior was discovered by family members. In the interest of safety, Dr Cai urged people not to leave the house after taking sleeping medication.

高雄有醫生發現安眠藥的奇怪副作用，有少數民眾吃了美國一家藥廠的安眠藥之後，竟然出現強迫症的症狀，有人竟會一直吃東西吃到睡著。

安眠藥顧名思義就是要讓人有個好夢，不過，高雄市有三名婦女服了安眠藥之後，反而變得更好動，會不斷的重覆做著平常就很愛做的同一樣事，其中一人就是猛吃東西吃到睡著 。

阮綜合神經內科主治醫師蔡銘駿：重覆做某一件事的習慣，特別是在掃地、吃東西還有逛街這三種行為。

醫師表示，三位婦人吃的都是美國一家藥廠出品的安眠藥，是台灣很常見的醫生用藥，服安眠藥出現強迫症可能是台灣第一次發現，還好症狀持續不長。

阮綜合神經內科主治醫師蔡銘駿：藥物停止症狀就改善了，而且強迫症只是在吃藥後20分鐘那個時候被觀察到而己。

醫生指出，當事人通常都不知道自己在做什麼，多半是家屬長期觀察發現。為了避免發生意外，醫生呼籲，吃了安眠藥之後，最好不要出門。