Comments on: Thorazine used to treat Alzheimer’s http://sundownerfacts.com/ant-psychotic-treatment.html a resource for Sundowners Syndrome Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:11:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jennifer http://sundownerfacts.com/ant-psychotic-treatment.html/comment-page-1#comment-4987 jennifer Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:26:26 +0000 http://www.sundownerfacts.com/ant-psychotic-treatment.html#comment-4987 Okay, my dad has been in ICU for 17 days, now on the step down from that...Originally in for being struck by a motorist, then alcohol withdrawal became a factor, then sundowning syndrome and now perhpas dementia....then again maybe not. he is NOT sleeping at night and agitated. He got out of bed, fell down and pulled out his PIC line and catheter. Docs want to give zyprexa, but if he could be early stages of dementia, that drug sounds bad. ;Plus he has history of heart attacks and high blood pressure. What drug can we give him to helphim sleep. Respiritol didn't work. Okay, my dad has been in ICU for 17 days, now on the step down from that…Originally in for being struck by a motorist, then alcohol withdrawal became a factor, then sundowning syndrome and now perhpas dementia….then again maybe not. he is NOT sleeping at night and agitated. He got out of bed, fell down and pulled out his PIC line and catheter. Docs want to give zyprexa, but if he could be early stages of dementia, that drug sounds bad. ;Plus he has history of heart attacks and high blood pressure.

What drug can we give him to helphim sleep. Respiritol didn’t work.

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