The only bright lights were the physio and OT sessions where the therapists did treat him as if he did have a brain. He needed the nippy during the day, something that he had never done before. When the 'neurological team' realised this, it pronounced that he was trying to 'get out of his therapies', and had yet another treat in store. The usual dose is 75mg daily in divided doses increasing if required to 150mg. The maintenance dose is 50-100mg daily at bedtime.
Chloral hydrate is a hypnotic, long-established for insomnia.
The next evening our son was talking absolute nonsense, not surprisingly. Though I was not aware of the drugs that he had received, I phoned the neurologist to ask that the medication he had been given the previous night should not be repeated. I replied that he was taking away my son's only faculty, his brain, and begged for something for the hayfever, and something to help him sleep. At our home hospital, great care had been given to my son's medication and to give nothing with adverse side-effects. We both spoke to the man on the phone and got nowhere.