Originally Posted by
Dealmaker33
I use a brand I purchased at a pharmacists in the USA called "Unisom" - its a little blue pill that contains, I seem to recall, the ingredient in anti-histamines that makes you drowsy - it certainly knocks me out for a good 5 hours (I really struggle to sleep on planes so 5 hours is amazing for me)......albeit I feel drowsy /dopey for a good 4 hours when I wake up.....
Might be good for those looking for a longer sleep......though not if you have n important meeting on arrival!
Although I can sympathise with anyone who can't sleep on a flight, it always strikes me as a bad move to render oneself incapable of responding reasonably quickly in an emergency. I've had to haul a colleague off a plane that had to return to our starting point for some technical reason after he had a sleeping pill and it wasn't easy - in a real emergency I very much doubt I'd risk my skin to do the same.