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Health for All 10 Ways to Improve Sleep Quality
Rarely of adults who have slept soundly. Because it is up to 44 percent of older adults experience problems sleeping. Sleeping less than 6-7 hours per day has become a bad habit of many people.
Whereas sufficient sleep time is needed, so the body had time to do the recovery, so have the power to run all day events the next day.
Dr. Jennifer Ashton said the lack of sleep or not sleep soundly can reduce adverse health and harmony with your partner.
Brain injuries may result in trouble sleeping, study finds
ScienceDaily (May 25, 2010) — People with brain injuries may produce low amounts of melatonin, which affects their sleep, according to a study published in the May 25, 2010, print issue of Neurology , the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
For the study, 23 people who had a severe traumatic brain injury an average of 14 months earlier and 23 healthy people of the same age spent two nights in a sleep laboratory.
“We’ve known that people often have problems with sleep after a brain injury, but we haven’t known much about the exact causes of these problems,” said study author Shantha Rajaratnam, PhD, of Monash University in Victoria, Australia.
Normal Newborn – Newborn
Sleep Patterns What are the sleep patterns of a newborn?
The average newborn sleeps much of the day and night, waking only for feedings every few hours. It is often hard for new parents to know how long and how often a newborn should sleep. Unfortunately, there is no set schedule at first and many newborns have their days and nights confused – they think they are supposed to be awake at night and sleep in the daytime.
Generally, newborns sleep about eight to nine hours in the daytime and about eight hours at night. Most babies do not begin sleeping through the night (six to eight hours) without waking until about three months of age, or until they weigh 12 to 13 pounds. Newborns and young infants have a small stomach and must wake every few hours to eat. In most cases, your baby will awaken and be ready to eat about every three to four hours. It is not necessary to wake a baby for feedings unless you have been advised to do so by your baby’s physician. However, do not let a newborn sleep longer than five hours at a time in the first five to six weeks. Some premature babies need more frequent feedings and must be awakened to eat.
Sleep disorder
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sleep disorder Classification and external resources ICD-10 F51., G47. ICD-9 307.4, 327, 780.5 DiseasesDB 26877 eMedicine med/609 MeSH D012893
A sleep disorder (somnipathy) is a medical disorder of the sleep patterns of a person or animal. Some sleep disorders are serious enough to interfere with normal physical, mental and emotional functioning. A test commonly ordered for some sleep disorders is the polysomnography.
- 1 Common disorders
- 2 Classifications
- 3 General principles of treatment
- 4 Sleep medicine
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
[edit] Common disorders
The most common sleep disorders include:
- Primary insomnia: Chronic difficulty in falling asleep and/or maintaining sleep when no other cause is found for these symptoms.
- Bruxism: Involuntarily grinding or clenching of the teeth while sleeping.
- Delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS): inability to awaken and fall asleep at socially acceptable times but no problem with sleep maintenance, a disorder of circadian rhythms. Other such disorders are advanced sleep phase syndrome (ASPS) and Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome (Non-24), both much less common than DSPS.
- Hypopnea syndrome: Abnormally shallow breathing or slow respiratory rate while sleeping.
- Narcolepsy: Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) often culminating in falling asleep spontaneously but unwillingly at inappropriate times.
- Cataplexy: a sudden weakness in the motor muscles that can result in collapse to the floor.
- Night terror: Pavor nocturnus, sleep terror disorder: abrupt awakening from sleep with behavior consistent with terror.
- Parasomnias: Disruptive sleep-related events involving inappropriate actions during sleep stages – sleep walking and night-terrors are examples.
- Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD): Sudden involuntary movement of arms and/or legs during sleep, for example kicking the legs. Also known as nocturnal myoclonus. See also Hypnic jerk, which is not a disorder.
- Rapid eye movement behavior disorder (RBD): Acting out violent or dramatic dreams while in REM sleep.
- Restless legs syndrome (RLS): An irresistible urge to move legs. RLS sufferers often also have PLMD.
- Situational circadian rhythm sleep disorders: shift work sleep disorder (SWSD) and jet lag.
- Obstructive sleep apnea: Obstruction of the airway during sleep, causing lack of sufficient deep sleep; often accompanied by snoring. Other forms of sleep apnea are less common.
- Sleep paralysis: is characterized by temporary paralysis of the body shortly before or after sleep. Sleep paralysis may be accompanied by visual, auditory or tactile hallucinations. Not a disorder unless severe. Often seen as part of Narcolepsy.
- Sleepwalking or somnambulism: Engaging in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness (such as eating or dressing), which may include walking, without the conscious knowledge of the subject.
- Nocturia: A frequent need to get up and go to the bathroom to urinate at night. It differs from Enuresis, or bed-wetting, in which the person does not arouse from sleep, but the bladder nevertheless empties.[1]
- Somniphobia: a dread of sleep.
[edit] Classifications
- Dyssomnias – A broad category of sleep disorders characterized by either hypersomnolence or insomnia. The three major subcategories include intrinsic (i.e., arising from within the body), extrinsic (secondary to environmental conditions or various pathologic conditions), and disturbances of circadian rhythm. MeSH
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Restless leg syndrome
- Periodic limb movement disorder
- Hypersomnia
- Recurrent hypersomnia – including Kleine-Levin syndrome
- Posttraumatic hypersomnia
- “Healthy” hypersomnia
- Circadian rhythm sleep disorders
- Delayed sleep phase syndrome
- Advanced sleep phase syndrome
- Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome
- Parasomnias – A category of sleep disorders that involve abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions, and dreams in connection with sleep.
- REM sleep behaviour disorder
- Sleep terror
- Sleepwalking (or somnambulism)
- Bruxism (Tooth-grinding)
- Bedwetting or sleep enuresis.
- Sleep talking (or somniloquy)
- Sleep sex (or sexsomnia)
- Exploding head syndrome – Waking up in the night hearing loud noises.
- Medical or Psychiatric Conditions that may produce sleep disorders
- Psychoses (such as Schizophrenia)
- Mood disorders
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Panic
- Alcoholism
- Sleeping sickness – a parasitic disease which can be transmitted by the Tsetse fly.
- Snoring – Not a disorder in and of itself, but it can be a symptom of deeper problems.
[edit] General principles of treatment
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Sleep Problems In Adults Linked To Increased Risk Of Suicidal Behaviors
ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 2009) — Adults who suffer chronic sleep problems may face an increased risk of suicidal behaviour, new research indicates.
In a study to be presented on April 1, 2009 at the World Psychiatric Association international congress “Treatments in Psychiatry,” scientists found that the more types of sleep disturbances people had, the more likely they were to have thoughts of killing themselves, engage in planning a suicidal act or make a suicide attempt.
“People with two or more sleep symptoms were 2.6 times more likely to report a suicide attempt than those without any insomnia complaints,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Marcin Wojnar, a research fellow at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Michigan in the United States and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Warsaw in Poland.
Sleep Disorder, Problems Associated With Other Disorders: eMedicine Pediatrics: Developmental and Behavioral
Sleep disturbances in youth represent highly common phenomena that, in severe forms, can interfere with daily patient and family functioning. Interest in pediatric sleep problems continues to increase, yet further investigation is needed to develop empirically based detection and treatment of pediatric sleep disorders.
The consequences of untreated sleep problems may include significant emotional, behavioral, and cognitive dysfunction. The magnitude of these sequelae is inversely proportional to the child’s overall ability to adapt and develop in spite of the sleep disturbance. Nevertheless, sleep regulation remains a critical part of health for youths. Elevated rates of sleep problems exist among children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental, nonpsychiatric medical conditions and psychiatric disorders.
Herbal Sleep Remedies For Children
A wide array of factors—both physiological and psychological—can cause sleeping difficulties in children. Sleep deprivation, the end result of such difficulties, may pose a serious obstacle to your child’s success in virtually every aspect of life. Although the root causes of sleep problems must be investigated and addressed, herbal medicine offers some remedies that may be able to give your kids a good night’s sleep in the meantime.
Sweet Sleep Pillow
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Scientists Finding Out What Losing Sleep Does to a Body
Beyond leaving people bleary-eyed, clutching a Starbucks cup and dozing off at afternoon meetings, failing to get enough sleep or sleeping at odd hours heightens the risk for a variety of major illnesses, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity, recent studies indicate.
“We’re shifting to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week society, and as a result we’re increasingly not sleeping like we used to,” said Najib T. Ayas of the University of British Columbia. “We’re really only now starting to understand how that is affecting health, and it appears to be significant.”
A large, new study, for example, provides the latest in a flurry of evidence suggesting that the nation’s obesity epidemic is being driven, at least in part, by a corresponding decrease in the average number of hours that Americans are sleeping, possibly by disrupting hormones that regulate appetite. The analysis of a nationally representative sample of nearly 10,000 adults found that those between the ages of 32 and 49 who sleep less than seven hours a night are significantly more likely to be obese.
Shrink Rap: How This Shrink Picks A Sleep Medication
I have more to say about sleep medications. But I have a lot less to say about choosing a sleep medication than I do about choosing an anti-depressant, and my thinking on this is a lot less structured.
Everyone who wants medication to help them sleep gets a talk about the obvious sleep hygiene issues. Here are the basics:
— Choose a 7 hour period during which you’d like to sleep. Keep it the same everyday, for example, midnight to 7 am, but the exact hours aren’t important. The regularity is. Set an alarm.
–Don’t nap.
–Don’t watch TV or do anything else interesting in bed (sleep and sex, that’s it)
–No caffeine after 2 pm. And not much before that. That includes caffeinated soda and iced tea and sadly, chocolate.
–Exercise regularly, preferably 3 hours before you go to bed, but absolutely no closer to bedtime.
–Limit alcohol, and don’t drink it near bedtime, it screws up your sleep architecture.
–If you have sleep apnea, use your CPAP machine. Really.
No one follows these recommendations, at least not when I make them.
Linda, the self-proclaimed sleep Nazi, would add: No Screens of any kind after 11 pm for adults and 10 pm for kids– no computers, TV, video games. Even I’m glad I don’t live at her house.
Childhood sleep problems and alcohol/drug problems in young adulthood
ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2010) — Sleep problems are a major public-health issue in the United States. In 2006, for example, more than half of 6th to 12th graders reported feeling tired or sleepy, and more than 30 percent reported having problems remaining asleep during the night. A first-of-its-kind study has found a long-term relationship between childhood sleep problems and subsequent alcohol and drug outcomes.
Results will be published in the June 2010 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View.
“About one in 10 parents/caregivers think that their toddlers, preschoolers, and children have a sleep problem,” said Maria M. Wong, associate professor in the department of psychology at, Idaho State University, citing several studies. “The prevalence of problem sleepiness among adolescents and young adults, ages 12 to 25 years, is not only high but also increasing. Some serious consequences include increased risk of unintentional injuries or death, such as car accidents, low academic performance, negative moods, and increased use of alcohol and drugs.”