Sleep is the time for the human body to repair itself and consolidate its memory. In order to commemorate and determine the importance of sleep, March 2 1 day is designated as World Sleep Day every year. According to the survey results of the World Health Organization, among the 224 * surveys in the world, more than 500 million sampling surveys show that more than 29% people in the world have serious sleep problems.
The importance of sleep can be compared with people's breathing. The harm of insomnia is long-term and the causes are more complicated. Let's look at the causes of insomnia.
What are the causes of insomnia?
The patient's physical illness
Patients themselves have many physical diseases, such as pain and cough, which will lead to insomnia, and even about 4% of patients will have sleep apnea, which is a very rare disease and directly affects patients' sleep. In addition, patients with cold, fever and palpitation symptoms will also affect the quality of sleep, so the influence rate of physical diseases on insomnia is as high as 83%.
Physiological factors of patients
For example, some insomniacs are in the jet lag stage, so they can't sleep. In addition, the poor sleep quality of patients may be directly related to food intake. The survey shows that more than 120000 people can't sleep normally because they eat too much food every day. Hunger is also one of the causes of insomnia, and the effective rate of insomnia caused by such factors reaches 6 1%.
Insomnia caused by anxiety
Insomnia caused by anxiety is more urgent to be treated than the first two cases, because anxiety and anxiety will directly affect the quality of sleep of patients, and even it is difficult to fall asleep. People with depression will also suffer from insomnia all night, and they will wake up early after taking sleeping pills. The probability of insomnia caused by such diseases is as high as 43%-76%, which varies according to the drugs taken by patients.
Mental and drug factors
If the patient has mental illness, he will not be able to fall asleep directly, such as schizophrenia and other diseases, which will make the patient in a state of fear and anxiety, drowsy and insecure. In addition, drugs are also an important factor affecting sleep, which will change after stopping taking drugs, and the influence rate will reach about 3 1%.
The older you get, the more you should pay attention to your health, because there will be more and more physical problems, and because the living environment is getting worse and worse and the diet is getting unhealthy, many people have low physical fitness and are prone to various diseases. Old people often suffer from insomnia. How to treat senile insomnia? How is the treatment?
How to treat senile insomnia? What is the treatment?
Because now is the information age, electrical appliances and many electronic products are very developed, so it is best to stay away from the place where you sleep for some radioactive TVs, computers and mobile phones. In addition, you must develop a better routine, sleep regularly, and don't take a long lunch break during the day. It is best to exercise properly. At the same time, you should keep yourself relaxed. Don't worry about losing sleep tonight as soon as you lie in bed. Try to relax and reduce your psychological burden. At the same time, you should create a good rest and sleep environment. The brightness is mainly dim, the air should be circulated, the temperature should be appropriate, and noisy noise should be avoided as much as possible. The bed should be kept clean and soft. You can consider drinking a cup of hot milk before going to bed to help you sleep.
What about long-term insomnia? Most white-collar workers have this habit. Eat very little in the morning. Lunch is hasty, and dinner is often a big meal. It is understandable that white-collar workers spend the most time in the evening. But everyone should be vigilant. I ate too much dinner. Be careful not to lose sleep. This article will help you introduce a method to relieve this kind of insomnia.
Four ways to relieve insomnia:
1, don't eat too much for dinner.
Many people have this habit now. They are busy at work during the day and eat little, but at night they want to liberate themselves, overeat and fill their stomachs, but in the process of enjoying delicious food, they accumulate insomnia factors invisibly. This shows that overeating at night is also a taboo habit in sleep.
2. Cultivate good sleep habits
In other words, the habit of sleeping is first of all exercise. We should pay attention not to do strenuous exercise before going to bed. In fact, many workers now, after a busy day, choose to use exercise to relieve stress and engage in some high-intensity exercise, which can vent their emotions, but it also leads to difficulties in falling asleep and join the ranks of insomnia.
3. Don't drink coffee at night
It accelerates people's modern drinking life. Coffee, stimulating drinks and so on are all substances that catalyze excitement and play a very good role in killing sleep. Taking these substances for a long time will inevitably affect sleep and have great side effects on personal health.
Step 4 avoid light items
Reduce light items in the bedroom, especially don't put a pendulum wall clock. Such light and vibration will especially damage the sleep system, making it difficult for people to fall asleep, thinking about problems while sleeping, intensifying the activity of brain cells and making it more difficult to fall asleep.
First, psychological adjustment. Old people are always thinking, always worried about their sleep quality and condition. Whenever night falls, they begin to worry about insomnia again tonight, so the more they think about it, the more obvious the symptoms of insomnia will be and the more serious it will be.
Second, food supervision. You can often eat some foods that have the effect of sleeping and calming the nerves. Ziziphus jujuba seeds, lilies, longan, lotus seeds and propolis are all common foods in our daily life, which have a good effect on calming the nerves and relieving depression. There is also the ability to eat Polygonum multiflorum Thunb and Mulberry regularly. These two foods have good nourishing effects on liver and kidney, and can relieve symptoms such as depression, insomnia and forgetfulness after eating, but only by insisting on eating can they have obvious effects.
Third, divert attention. You can find your favorite interest, enjoy the happiness and beauty brought by interest, relax your depressed mood well, cultivate your hobbies, and don't let yourself have too much time to think, so that your daily life will become more substantial and positive, which is a good auxiliary treatment for senile insomnia.