it is also best known as geodon

products containing  ziprasidone:
zeldox, zipsydon

ziprasidone hcl, ziprasidone-hcl, ziprasidone hydrochloride, ziprasidone-hydrochloride

Melatonin And Autistic Patients (Children)

Autism is a serious illness afflicting about 250,000 children. The disease is characterized by deficits in language development, poor sleep, poor responsiveness in social situations along with poor communication with others. Although the disease is devastating for the afflicted children, it is equally devastating to their parents who are often unable to cope with their children. In addition to not being able to sleep, many of these children end up forgotten-- given away or taken into some type of institution. These children are frequently destructive and dangerous to themselves, and often need to be restrained.

To date, the medical establishment has very little to offer to these children, which often leads to total chaos within the family milieu.

Recently, reports have been forthcoming which suggest that melatonin given at bedtime improved the sleep of autistic children as well as other aspects of their behavior.

In 1995, an Italian research team (Kulmann, et al.) reported decreased nocturnal melatonin in autistic children. Although melatonin is not a cure, it has beendemonstrated to improve sleep behavior of autistic children, which in turn allowed parents to have normal sleep. Thus, melatonin use with autistic children helped to restore a family structure to a tolerable degree.

Rozencwaig and Grad have been using melatonin on a small group of autistic children ranging in age from 6 to 17. We found similar results as reported by others, i.e., improved sleep and behavior and increased ease of communication with the autistic children.

In Vancouver, Dr. Jim Jeans tried using melatonin with autistic children, after various other treatments failed. He is very enthusiastic after seeing dramatic improvement in their sleep. In addition, their infections and epileptic fits decreased.