re antihistamine for sleep aid in article apr nmt edu houle nmt edu paul houle writes anyway i am looking for advice for the use of antihistamines as sleep aids and if there are any dangers of such use seems safe to me since they are used chronically for allergies by millions i don t want to try bzs because bz addiction seems to be a serious threat and from what i hear bz sleep quality is not good whereas antihistamine sleep quality seems to be better for me i have tried some dietary tryptophan loading stuff and that also seems to lower sleep quality i seem to wake up around or so and be in some kind of mental haze until or also i would be interested in any other advice for helping my problem although i ve already tried many of the non pharmacological solutions antihistamines have been the active ingredient of otc sleep aids for decades go to any drugstore and look at the packages of such sleep aids as sominex nytol etc the active ingredient is diphenhydramine the same antihistamine that s in benadryl steven litvintchouk mitre corporation burlington road bedford ma fone arpa sdl mitre org uucp linus sdl
