sleeping pills, growth stunter?

[Red X]

I was wondering if anyone knew if sleeping pills could somehow stunt growth. I just heard this from someone, and I have used sleeping pills a few times, and was just wondering if this was true, also if fructose could stunt height growth also. If either of these do could someone explain how?
thx

-Paul

[C1ay]

I think someone's pulling your leg. There are lots of different pills used to put people to sleep so a blanket claim that sleeping pills stunt your growth would be false. Fructose is the natural sweetener in fruits which are not known to stunt your growth either.

[Dark Mind]

Only sixteen and your worried about stunting your growth??? Tsk, tsk, tsk. You should be at just about your max height, and if not then you are definitely coming up on it (I'm sixteen too ). As for your question about whether or not sleeping pills or fructose stunt growth... I have no idea. Sorry; if no one has replied by the time I find out I'll post it .

[Dark Mind]

And never mind. Just beat me to it C1ay , in the same minute too.

[Biochemist]

Originally Posted by C1ay

I think someone's pulling your leg. There are lots of different pills used to put people to sleep so a blanket claim that sleeping pills stunt your growth would be false. Fructose is the natural sweetener in fruits which are not known to stunt your growth either.

Agreed.

The most commonly used prescription sleep aids are benzodiazepines, and the class has been safely used for sleep for about 40 years. To my knowledge, there is no evidence of stunted growth. For non-prescription sleep aids ( in the US) the most common product is diphenhydramine. This has been used in kids and even pregnant moms for decades as well with few side effects and no effect on growth (even prenatal) to my knowledge.

If fructose was a problem, kids could not eat fruit. This is pretty unlikely.

[alexander]

If I'm not mistaken, benzodiazepines are a class of gabaminergic psychoactive chemicals, those would be used for treatment of sleep and anxiety disorders, and now replace barbituates.
Things that you should worry about:
regular use leads to addiction (although they are a lot less addictive then barbituates, they are still addictive) and body tends to adapt to them so people tend to increase dosages. Sudden withdrawal may cause anxiety, insomnia, seizures and possibly even death. This family of psychoactives also has been known to cause temporary amnesia and blackouts, especially if taken with alcohol. High concentrations of Vitamin C have been known to somewhat releave or block those effects, but nothing has really been proven.

But really sleeping pills dont make you fall asleep, they make you have all the conditions to be forced into sleep, conditions such as relaxation and their calming effects, which help the organism develop the hormones to make you fall asleep. But what really makes you fall asleep is melatonin or 5-methoxy-N-acetiltryptamine, which is produced in your pinealocites in the pineal gland. This hormone is what tells your body to sleep. Its generation is regulated by the Dark/Light cycles, darkness tells the body to produce it, while sunlight makes the production to halt. There is some research being done on a special set of eye glasses made to trick your body from going to sleep, and they use led's to "reset" your internal clock per saay, but it does not help with the body part of it all, so it still makes you very much sesseptible to SDP.

But really, you shouldn't take sleeping drugs, they do help, but why not use something that really contains something that your tells your body to sleep rather then take relaxants? Highest concentrations of melatonin are found in milk and turkey, and if you warm the milk up, it will also help you relax as well as delivering melatonin...

And no evidence suggests that benzodiazepines slow down growth. I think your friends were just busting your chops...