Neurosis, also known as “insomnia”, is very common among young adults and the elderly, and is commonly treated with sedation, which has many side effects and is prone to drug resistance in the long term.
A. The physiological significance of sleep
Sleep is an important physiological phenomenon, about one-third of the time in a person’s life is spent in sleep. In normal people, sleep and wakefulness alternate, and sleep causes physiological changes such as general muscle relaxation, slowed respiratory heart rate, reduced oxygen saturation, decreased blood oxygen content, reduced basal metabolic rate, and reduced brain activity. In short, sleep is a kind of protective inhibition, losing the temporary time, but gaining the next day’s energy.
Second, the common causes of insomnia
1, extracorporeal factors: temperature, humidity, light, smell and changes in the surrounding environment, the impact of noise, etc. can affect the normal sleep.
2, somatic factors: pain, itching, drugs and organic lesions, etc.
3, emotional factors: mental tension, emotional instability, over-excitement, etc.
4, neurological disease factors: lesions in any part of the brain, cerebellum and brainstem can cause insomnia.
III. Pathogenesis
When it comes to insomnia past information will say that it is caused by mental tension and stress, why insomnia caused by mental tension? In the end, it is because the brain keeps thinking about activities, which increases the oxygen consumption is the key to the problem.
Regardless of the initial cause of insomnia, insomnia is the direct result of increased oxygen consumption of the brain, which will be caused by increased oxygen consumption of the body relative hypoxia, people in a slight lack of oxygen to show excitement, (everyone has tired head instead of sleep experience), the result of excitement will further increase oxygen consumption, and finally form a vicious circle, the condition to a certain extent only by a single heart regulation, exercise, adjust To a certain extent, it is difficult to break this vicious circle by single mind regulation, exercise and diet adjustment, etc. Improving hypoxia as soon as possible is the key to treatment.
IV. Clinical manifestations
First of all, we need to know the normal sleep time of a person, children sleep longer because the development of the nervous system is not yet perfect and the brain is easily fatigued, and the sleep time is gradually shortened with the growth of age. Newborns need 18-20 hours a day, young children need 9-14 hours, young adults need about 8 hours, and the elderly need 5-6 hours. Insomnia is a symptom rather than a disease, and it is very common to have insomnia in life, with difficulty in falling asleep, early awakening, shallow sleep, dreamy and other conditions. If insomnia is within 2 days, there is generally no obvious change, but after 3 days, there are obvious changes, such as mental depression, reduced work ability, reduced intelligence (memory, calculation, thinking and judgment), slow reaction, easily irritated, etc.
V. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen has unique efficacy in the treatment of insomnia or neurasthenia that cannot be compared with drugs. It is practical, safe and effective, and has outstanding curative effect. We have received satisfactory results by adopting the comprehensive treatment measures mainly with hyperbaric oxygen. Most of them can be cured or remitted. If you have been diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder, you are not included in the above discussion and need to cooperate with psychiatric treatment. Insomnia caused by organic diseases is also not included in the above discussion, and requires active treatment of the underlying disease.
1. Treatment mechanism.
(1) In patients with long-term neurasthenia, because the brain does not get sufficient rest, it will inevitably cause an increase in the oxygen consumption of the brain, making the brain tissue relatively hypoxic, and brain hypoxia in turn will further aggravate neurasthenia. In addition, some patients may have neurasthenia or insomnia caused by cerebral hypoxia. Hyperbaric oxygen can rapidly increase the blood oxygen level and break this vicious circle.
(2) Hyperbaric oxygen has a regulatory effect on the nervous system.
(3) Hyperbaric oxygen has a therapeutic effect on certain causes of insomnia.
2.Treatment pressure: generally 2.0-2.5 atmospheric pressure (0.2-0.25Mpa), once a day, 10 times as a course of treatment.
3, the number of treatment: generally 10 times can significantly improve sleep. But you can not expect a treatment never relapse, complete relief is recommended to use intermittent treatment, depending on the actual situation of each person.
Local conditions without hyperbaric oxygen therapy can also take portable hyperbaric oxygen (atmospheric pressure closed mask oxygen) treatment, although not to the hospital hyperbaric oxygen therapy to absorb more oxygen, but for ordinary oxygen three times, can be completed at home, especially for the brain-based white-collar class is not a good health care treatment measures.