Why Parkinson’s patients always have insomnia

  Parkinson’s disease is a common neurological disorder in middle-aged and elderly people, with motor symptoms such as tremor, rigidity, reduced movement, and unsteady walking, while patients and their families generally focus only on these motor manifestations and rarely mention the non-motor symptoms to their doctors. Most patients with Parkinson’s disease experience sleep problems in their lives.  Among the majority of Parkinson’s patients, some patients often complain of waking up frequently at night, waking up and having difficulty falling back to sleep, and feeling sleepy during the day; some patients have excessive dreaming and dreaming; there is also excessive daytime sleep, often dozing off, sometimes falling asleep while sitting in public, and family members often think that the patient has become lazy, which is actually a sleep disorder disease. “Patients with Parkinson’s disease often suffer from chronic insomnia that lasts more than 4 weeks, daytime fatigue, weakness, irritability, emotional instability, inability to concentrate also prone to anxiety, depression, etc. In the long run, it will have a negative impact on physical output.”  The main causes of sleep disorders in Parkinson’s patients are the following factors: 1. Some Parkinson’s patients sleep less. Less physical activity and irregular life.  2, daytime napping. Or due to the side effects of taking Parkinson’s drugs, or lifestyle habits.  3, disease progression, disengagement from society, some Parkinson’s patients appear anxiety, depression, manifested as insomnia. Insomnia is its main clinical manifestation.  4, due to disease progression, some Parkinson’s patients living independently cannot move, sit up, turn over difficulties, resulting in inconvenient life, affecting sleep.  5, some Parkinson’s patients have horror hallucinations can also affect sleep.  Sleep disorders have a close relationship with Parkinson’s disease and seriously affect the quality of life of Parkinson’s patients. The following are a few life tips for Parkinson’s patients with sleep disorders: 1. Do not take medications or foods containing caffeine or nicotine, especially 4-6 hours before going to bed. This means that if you want to have a good night’s sleep, it is best not to drink coffee or strong tea in the second half of the day and not to smoke after dinner. When you have a cold, you should choose your medication carefully and take the kind of cold medicine that is suitable for taking at night; 2. Avoid strenuous exercise before going to bed, regular exercise during the day is beneficial to sleep, but exercise before going to bed can interfere with sleep; 3. Avoid being too full, high-fat protein diet and drinking too much water before going to bed; 4. Do not drink alcohol at night, although alcohol can help nervous people fall asleep, but in the second half of the night will make people easily awake; 5. Emotional excitement, excessive use of the brain; 6, regular rest, on time to bed, no matter when to sleep the night before, the next day to get up on time, the purpose is to reshape the rhythm of the biological clock, because the time to wake up is very important to the biological clock; 7, the bedroom temperature is appropriate, quiet, light as dark as possible.