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Herbal Tea Sleep Study
A common criticism of conventional medicine is that it’s too clinical. Some patients feel like they’re simply cogs in a massive medical machine that needs repair. This is one of the unintended consequences of relying too heavily on the cold, hard facts provided by science alone. On the other hand, alternative medicine can sometimes go too far in the other direction, allowing emotions to run the show. Several years ago I attended a conference in which the famed cancer patient advocate Dr. Bernie Siegel gave a presentation. He emphasized the importance of considering every available treatment option and understanding the reality of one’s condition. But he balanced that advice by adding this, “Statistics do not apply to individuals and there is no false hope”.
When I was compiling research for today’s blog, I began to pull studies that evidenced the many hazards of sleep deprivation. Normally, I would cite those scientific trials at the end of the paragraphs that make up my column. But two things happened recently that shaped how I’m writing today’s particular entry. I discovered some coverage about SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies. One of the presentations there caught my eye. It was entitled, “Sleep Disturbance and Daily Relationship Quality in Couples: Evidence for Bidirectional Associations”.
A bidirectional association is basically a chicken and egg kind of circumstance. If a couple isn’t getting along, it negatively affects their sleep quality. However it’s also true that poor sleep, no matter what the cause, is damaging to relationships. But here’s where it gets more interesting and specific.
- Women’s sleep tends to suffer the most if daytime interaction with their mate is stressful or unfulfilling.
- Men who sleep soundly at night rate their relationship as more positive during the day.
Guide to Healthy Sleep on
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- What is sleep?
- How much sleep is enough?
- Why sleep is good for you and skimping on sleep isn’t
- How much sleep do you need?
- Tips for a good nights sleep
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Are You Sleep Deprived?
Medical Author: Melissa Conrad Stppler, MD
Medical Editor: Jay W. Marks, MD
No matter how much sleep you need, if you don’t get enough, you will suffer the effects of sleep deprivation. Research has shown that in tests of driving ability and hand-eye coordination, people deprived of sleep perform as badly as, or even worse than, people who are intoxicated. It’s no wonder that drowsiness is a major cause of traffic accidents and deaths.
How to Sleep Better: Sleep Deprivation Solutions
This article is from the WebMD Feature Archive
How to Sleep Better
From having occasional difficulty sleeping to insomnia, there is a lot you can do to get a better night’s sleep, feel refreshed when you awake, and remain alert throughout the day. It’s called “sleep hygiene” and refers to those practices, habits, and environmental factors that are critically important for sound sleep. And most of it is under your control.
There are four general areas important to sleep hygiene:
- Our circadian rhythm, or 24-hour cycle
- Aging
- Psychological stressors — those factors can cause difficulty falling asleep and disturb the quality of your sleep
- Common social or recreational drugs like nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol
Sleeping Disorder: Depression and Sleeping disorder treatment, statistics…
Sleeping Disorder
Millions of Americans of all ages are affected by sleeping disorder, many with severe, chronic sleep deprivation. A round-the-clock activity-driven society has meant that many individuals habitually defer sleep to get other things done. “I’ll catch up later,” is, however, easier said than done. Recent research indicates that pervasive sleep deprivation can lead to more serious health problems than just a dull clouded feeling the next morning-including obesity, high blood pressure and diminished resistance to infections.
Information on Sleeping Disorder:
Your sleeping habits and your mood are interrelated. Like it or not, sleep follows its own laws which have no consideration or respect for man-made systems, whether that is a short week-end or the big retirement. The fact is, sleep illudes us when we have all the time in the world to sleep.
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“At long last, I’ve found a book that I can hand to weary parents with the confidence that they can learn to help their baby sleep through the night–without the baby crying it out.” –William Sears, M.D., Author of The Baby Book
“When I followed the steps in this book, it only took a few nights to see a HUGE improvement. Now every night I’m getting more sleep than I’ve gotten in years! The best part is, there has been NO crying!” –Becky, mother of 13-month-old Melissa
Big Story: The best sleep advice you’ve never heard
Big Story: The best sleep advice you’ve never heard by Catherine Guthrie Last updated: September 2005
“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” — Leo J. Burke.
Ah, blessed, luxurious sleep … remember what it was like to get eight uninterrupted hours a night? If you have young children, it probably seems like a distant memory. According to a 2004 National Sleep Foundation poll, up to 69 percent of kids age 10 and under have trouble falling asleep and staying there. As for the other 31 percent — what’s their secret? We turned to leading childhood sleep experts to help us uncover some surprising strategies that really work.
Babies: Sleep deprivation 101
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3 Natural Ways to Help You Sleep Better
If you are having a difficulty in sleeping then you probably realize just how frustrating insomnia can be. Believe it or not, almost everybody is going to suffer through some type of insomnia at some point in their life. For some individuals, it’s simply a matter of being stressed out and unable to sleep for a night or two. For others, however, it becomes chronic and it may go on for months or even years before they are able to break the cycle of not sleeping, if ever. If you find that you are having a difficult time with your sleep pattern, here are three natural ways to improve your ability to get some sleep.
Getting Enough Sleep
If you are like most people, the answer is probably “no”. Add care giving to the equation, and the ability and time to get enough sleep fades quickly. Most of us use weekends to catch up on sleep just a little. But if you require extra sleep each weekend or are tired during the day, you are probably not getting enough sleep during the night.
Everyone’s sleep requirements vary between 6-8 hours for an average healthy adult. Most people need around 8 hours but get substantially less than that every night.
10 Great Ways to Improve Sleep
Adults need about 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night. Without it you can wake up irritable, tired, memory problems, and headaches. Also you can fall asleep during the day, and have a lot of micro sleeps (when the body loses concentration for fractions of a second). The body needs rest to feel replenished and healthy. It is also important to have sleep to improve immune, brain functions, and to produce growth hormones.
Long-Term Lack of Sleep:
If you don’t get enough rest in the long term you can develop depression, irritability, stress, anxiety or obesity which are all serious illnesses. In some ones lifetime, up to 30% of our day is spent on sleep. It is essential to have enough quality sleep during the nights.
Berkeley Parents Network: Waking at Night: 2 and 3 Year Olds
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Waking at Night: 2 and 3 Year Olds Berkeley Parents Network > Advice > Sleep > > Waking at Night
- 2-year-old used to sleep well, wakes at night now
- 2-year-old has started waking up at 2:00 A.M.
- 2.5 year old waking several times a night
- 2.5 year old has never slept through the night
- Setting up an “OK” time for 3-y-o to come into our bed
- Night Terrors
- More advice about waking at night
2-year-old used to sleep well, wakes at night now Feb 2004
I have a 2 year old who has always been a good sleeper and is now waking once or twice a night and having a hard time getting back to sleep. I checked the archives and noticed this doesn’t seem to be unconmmon. To parents who have 3 and 4 year olds who went through this at 2, does it go away on it’s own? Is this a phase that will pass without work or should I do something to help him through it. Currently, my husband or I go in and sleep on the floor but it’s tiering for us and I’m wondering if he’ll need us in there forever to be comfortable? Are we supporting him through a difficult developmental phase or are we creating a dependancy we will have to ”break” him from later. Let me know. Thanks! Sleepless
For what it’s worth, I am someone who recently posted a desperate e-mail about night- (and early-morning-) waking in my two-year-old, who up until then had been a champion sleeper. Her brother arrived just before she turned two, so I don’t know whether it was turning two, or the new addition to the family, but she just became a miserable, miserable sleeper — unable to fall asleep without having someone stay by her side for ages, waking up with terrible nightmares and unable to fall back asleep without yet more endless help, and then getting up to start the day sometimes as early as 4 a.m. I’m not really sure how we got through this, but yes, it DOES get better. My husband was in favor of indulging whatever requests she came up with — extra songs, lots of ”watching over her,” taking her into our bed (a big disaster), etc.; I was more inclined to try to nip things in the bud. In the end, we took a sort of middle road: he, the one willing to put up with everything, started putting her to bed, so at bedtime she got indulged — but ONLY as long as she was TRYING to fall asleep. If she was just playing around in her crib, or whining, or whatever, he would threaten to leave; if she lay there quietly with her eyes shut (although clearly suffering from some kind of anxious insomnia), he would stay quietly in the room for as long as it took, until she fell asleep. I would go to her for the night wakings, with a similar sort of approach. However, since we had the new little baby, eventually I would just get too exhausted to stay up with her, and amazingly, when I explained that I HAD to leave because I just couldn’t stay awake any longer, . . . she simply accepted that and went to sleep herself. Now, at 2-1/2, she often falls asleep without much trouble and when she (rarely) wakes during the night, a quick visit is enough to get her right back to sleep. I do think she benefitted from the extra comforting we gave her — maybe this helped her eventually to feel a bit more relaxed and confident – - but it was also interesting to see that she really didn’t NEED all of the comforting she had been demanding.
Or, . . . maybe she just grew out of it!
2-year-old has started waking up at 2:00 A.M. May 2002
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