Pay attention to your sleep habits

  Good sleep habits can help to help you solve the insomnia problem you are troubled with. Therefore, before treating insomnia, please develop good sleep habits, and then with medication, you can often get twice the result with half the effort. Liu Xiaodong, Emergency Center, Longyan First Hospital Sleep regularly, go to bed on time and get up on time. Don’t stay in bed after waking up (even if you don’t get enough sleep), and don’t “make up” for your sleep, even on weekends.  Before going to sleep, you must keep your brain calm and emotionally peaceful. Don’t bring your daytime problems or worries to bed, and don’t listen to thrilling story movies or ghost stories before going to bed.  When you go to bed, don’t worry about insomnia. If you still can’t sleep after lying in bed for 30 minutes, you must get up and leave the room, do something gentle, and go to bed only when you really have the desire to sleep.  Dinner has the most direct impact on sleep, it is advisable to three or four hours before bedtime, to light, easy to digest is appropriate. After dinner do not drink strong tea, coffee and drinks containing caffeine, do not smoke, do not drink, do not eat too much nor too hungry, but a small amount of food before going to bed can help sleep.  Comfortable bedroom to help sleep: cold and warm, dark, quiet environment, do not put the alarm clock at the head of the bed.  The bed should be hard, be warm, the pillow should be 5-10 cm high, moderately hard and soft, slightly elastic is appropriate, you can place some fresh fruit (skin), such as orange peel, grapefruit peel, apple on the pillow.  Insomniacs avoid daytime naps, naps are beneficial to those who sleep normally, for insomnia is not suitable, it will affect the night sleep.  Do not stay in bed or in the bedroom at any time other than when you are sleeping, treat the bed as a special place for sleeping, and do not engage in activities in bed that are not related to sleep.  If you wake up in the middle of the night, do not look at the clock and continue to turn around and sleep.  Do some exercise, but do not perform intense physical activities and excessive mental activities after evening time.