Elderly people who cannot sleep are considered to be related to insomnia, intracranial diseases, use of medication, depression, and so on.
1. Insomnia: if the elderly patients do not have enough sleep at night, they will not wake up during the day, it is recommended to improve the daily life style, and the symptoms will gradually improve when the sleep improves.
2. Intracranial diseases: including cerebrovascular disease, intracranial tumors, etc., which affect the sleep center, can be manifested as sleeplessness. At this time, it is necessary to go to the neurology outpatient clinic in the hospital. Cerebral infarction needs thrombolytic treatment in the acute stage; cerebral hemorrhage should be given dehydrating medicine according to the condition, and surgery is needed for serious cases; intracranial tumors are mainly treated by surgery.
3. The use of drugs: if the elderly patients take sedative hypnotic drugs can be manifested as sleepy, when the drug metabolism, the role of the weakening or disappear, the elderly will gradually return to normal.
4. Depression: the onset of daytime sleepiness, sleeplessness and other symptoms. Antidepressant treatment should be given, and the representative drugs include Venfaracin, fluoxetine and so on.
Elderly people may not be able to wake up from sleep due to other reasons, and it is recommended that patients seek medical treatment in a timely manner and under the guidance of a doctor. All drugs should be used under medical supervision