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- Helps increase the total sleep time (aspect of sleep quality) in people suffering from occasional sleep restriction or altered sleep schedule (e.g., shift work and jet lag).
- Supports alertness during waking hours and helps reduce the time it takes to fall asleep.
- Supports the body’s sleep-wake cycle.
Contains no artificial preservatives, colours or sweeteners and no soy, wheat or yeast.
Suggested Use
Adults:
Dissolve 1 tablet under the tongue at bedtime once per day or as directed by a health care practitioner.
Consult a health care practitioner for use beyond 4 weeks.
Cautions
Consult a health care practitioner prior to use if you have a hormonal disorder, diabetes, liver or kidney disease, cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, migraine, depression and/or hypertension, or if you are taking blood pressure or sedative/hypnotic medications.
Do not use if you are taking immunosuppressive drugs and/or if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Do not drive or use machinery for 5 hours after taking melatonin.
If symptoms persist continuously for more than 4 weeks (chronic insomnia), consult your health care practitioner.
Keep out of reach of children.
Melatonin can stimulate immune function and may reduce the efficacy of immunosuppressive drugs.
Theoretically, concomitant use of melatonin with sedative/hypnotic or central nervous system depressants may be additive. However, benzodiazepines may also reduce endogenous melatonin levels.
Melatonin can reduce the efficacy of blood pressure medication nifedipine GITS (Procardia XL).
Case reports suggests melatonin may potentiate anticoagulant and antiplatelet medications, however, the mechanism and clinical significance are unknown.
Melatonin may impair glucose utilization and increase insulin resistance in diabetic patients. However, the clinical significance of this effect on diabetics is unknown.
Contraceptive drugs can increase endogenous melatonin levels.
Theoretically, this may increase the effects and adverse effects of oral melatonin use.
Fluvoxamine significantly inhibits the elimination of melatonin, which some researchers believe could be helpful in the treatment of refractive insomnia. However, this interaction may also cause excessive unwanted drowsiness and other adverse effects.
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