I. What is sleep disorder.
Sleep disorders are abnormalities in the quantity and quality of sleep or the occurrence of certain clinical symptoms during sleep, such as reduced or excessive sleep and dream walking disorder. Various disorders that affect the ability to fall asleep or maintain normal sleep.
Second, the types of sleep disorders.
1, insomnia: difficulty falling asleep, excessive wakefulness, early awakening.
2.Sleep inversion: long sleep during the day and overnight sleeplessness.
3, drowsiness: mostly due to drugs, drowsiness all day long.
4. sleepwalking: getting up and moving around during the night in the middle of sleep.
5, nightmares.
Third, what are the dangers of sleep disorders.
Less sleep time, emotional irritability, restlessness, physical fatigue, aching limbs, drowsiness, memory loss, work efficiency significantly reduced and easy to make mistakes, unstable blood pressure, accelerated heart rate, etc.. In heavy cases, anxiety and depression. If you sleep too long, you will reflect the physiological and psychological changes such as sluggishness, depression, mental trance, drowsiness and back pain. In addition, sleep has an impact on the human immune system, cardiovascular system, digestive system and many areas of traffic safety.
Fourth, the common causes of sleep disorders.
1.Environmental factors.
2.Medical factors.
3.Psychological factors.
4.Other factors.
Five, the most common sleep disorders
Insomnia Insomnia is a condition of unsatisfactory sleep quality mainly due to insomnia, and other symptoms are secondary to insomnia, including difficulty falling asleep, poor sleep, easy waking, dreaminess, early waking, difficulty in re-sleeping after waking, discomfort after waking, fatigue, or daytime sleepiness. Insomnia can cause anxiety, depression, or fear in patients, and lead to decreased efficiency of mental activities and hinder social functions.
Six, the treatment of sleep disorders.
1, non-pharmacological treatment.
(1) etiological treatment: remove the causes, adjust the psychological state and lifestyle, psychotherapy if necessary.
2.Physical instrument treatment.
(1) Transcranial magnetic stimulation technology: It is a magnetic stimulation technology that uses pulsed magnetic fields to act on the central nervous system, changing the membrane potential of cortical nerve cells, causing them to generate induced currents, affecting brain metabolism and neuroelectric activity, thus causing a series of physiological and biochemical reactions. It is effective for depression, sleep disorders and other diseases, and has achieved good results as a non-pharmacological treatment in the clinic.
(2) Brain circulation function treatment: Brain circulation function treatment instrument is to expand the cerebral blood vessels, improve brain microcirculation, significantly increase cerebral blood flow, protect nerve cells and promote neurological function recovery through electrical stimulation treatment of human brain. Stabilize the electrical excitability of the brain cell membrane. The efficacy of depression, sleep disorders and other diseases, as a non-pharmacological treatment in the clinic to achieve good results.
(3) Electric sleep therapy instrument treatment: improve sleep through specific points in the ear.
Seven, drug treatment.
1, Valium drugs: these drugs are familiar sleeping pills, but also the fear of addiction drugs, its advantages are good sedative-hypnotic effect, cheap, the disadvantage is that the side effects are large, such as waking up in the morning dizziness, muscle weakness, but also easy to cause a decrease in alertness during the day, can not be engaged in driving such work, long-term use of a large number of drugs easy to produce drug dependence. Commonly used drugs eszopiclone, alprazolam, lorazepam, etc.
(1) the principle of intermittent medication: 2-4 times a week, can not use drugs, do not use drugs, not long-term large quantities.
(2) the principle of the minimum effective amount: small doses work without large doses
(3) the principle of regular change of medication: if the condition requires long-term use of Valium, it is recommended that 3-4 weeks to change another Valium or third-generation sleeping pills, can effectively avoid dependence on the generation.
2. Non-benzodiazepine drugs: zopiclone, zolpidem, zaleplon, eszopiclone, etc. Individual drugs can also produce hangover, insomnia rebound, tolerance, addiction and other side effects.
3, other types of sleep drugs: melatonin, Chinese herbal medicines, etc.
In short, sleep has an important impact on our mental and physical health, in our daily life, we should adjust our lifestyle, maintain psychological balance, quit bad habits, and promote sleep health. Sleep disorders should be seen in time to achieve reasonable medication and reasonable treatment.