Indications: pre-medication; mild insomnia, sedation.

Cautions &Contra-indications: prostatic hypertrophy, urinary retention, susceptibility to angle closure glaucoma, pyloroduodenal obstruction, hepatic & renal disease, pregnancy, breast feeding. epilepsy, porphyria.

Side Effects: drowsiness, headache, psychomotor impairment, antimuscarinic effects like urinary retention, dry mouth, blurred vision, GI disturbances.

Dose: by mouth, 25-50 mg at bedtime.

Child- below 2 years not recommended; 2-5 years, 15-20 mg; 5-10 years, 20-25mg, all at bed time.

For daytime sedation, once or twice daily using the lower dose.