Sleep Disorders: causes, symptoms and treatment
Sleep disorders are a fairly common problem. Frequent complaints about poor sleep make up 8-15% of the adult population of the entire globe, and 9-11% uses various sleeping pills. Sleep disorders occur at any age and for each age category are characterized by their types of violations. So bed-wetting and nighttime fears occur in childhood, and pathological drowsiness or insomnia is more characteristic of the elderly. There are also such violations of sleep that begin in childhood accompany a person all his life, for example, narcolepsy.
Narcolepsy is a disease of the nervous system related to hypersomnia characterized by daytime bouts of insuperable drowsiness and attacks of sudden falling asleep, attacks of cataplexy, that is, sudden loss of muscle tone with clear consciousness, disturbances in night sleep, hypnagogia (when falling asleep) and on waking hallucinations. Sometimes can be a short-term paralysis of the body immediately after awakening. Usually narcolepsy develops in young people, more often in men. Presumably, the disease is hereditary in combination with an external provoking factor, such as viral diseases. To date, the causes of narcolepsy have not been adequately studied.
Sleep disorders are primary when not associated with the pathology of any organs or secondary when arising as a consequence of other diseases.
Sleep disorder can occur with various diseases of the central nervous system or mental disorders. Problems with sleeping cause chronic alcoholism, as well as long-term using of medications.
Symptoms of sleep disorders are varied and depend on the type of disorder. But whatever the disturbance of sleep, in a short period of time it can lead to a change in the emotional state, mindfulness and working capacity of a person.
Treatment of sleep disorders.
Treatment of sleep disorders depends on the cause of their occurrence. Before resorting to the treatment of sleep disorders with sleeping pills, you should follow the general rules of healthy sleep: do not go to bed in a nervous or angry state, do not eat before going to bed, do not drink alcohol, coffee or strong tea for the night, do not sleep in day time, work out regularly, but do not exercise in evening. It is useful to go to bed and wake up every day at the same time. If you can not fall asleep within 30-40 minutes, you have to get up and do things until you have a desire to sleep. Also you can do a calming procedure before going to sleep: walk on a fresh air or relax at warm bath.
