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.
Sleep medications. These can include over-the-counter drugs that have a sedating effect, like antihistamines, or combination pain reliever and sleep aids, such as Tylenol PM. Hypnotics are stronger prescription medications that promote sleep, and fall into two classes: the benzodiazepines (e.g., Halcion or Restoril), and the non-benzodiazepines, benzodiazepine receptor agonists (e.g. Ambien or Lunesta).