The reason symptoms mainly affect the eyes and nose is because that's where pollen lands and irritates your immune system. Once your immune system detects the little pollen dust in your body, it overreacts. It misidentifies the pollen as dangerous and sends out an antibody called immunoglobulin E to fight it off.
Some of the more popular prescription sleep medications include: 1  eszopiclone (Lunesta), which is a non-benzodiazepine sedative. 2  ramelteon (Rozerem), which is a melatonin receptor agonist. 3  trazodone (Desyrel), which is an antidepressant of the serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor class.
Dec. 20, 2012 -- The most widely prescribed sleeping pills do help people get to sleep, but maybe not only because of the medicine, a new study suggests. When researchers combined studies of some of the newer prescription sleep drugs,...