Saturday, 13 June 2009
fatal familial insomnia
fatal familial insomnia is a very rare degenerative brain disease, will be a few months after the onset of death. Is it lack of sleep itself to death or other brain injuries, is still unclear. Long-term use of sleeping pills were to help people increase the sleep time, and no apparent effectiveness of health and may shorten the life span. Research indicates that about seven hours of night sleep time, and human relations between the most longevity.
incidence of fatal familial insomnia, aged 18-61 years old, duration 7-36 months. Sleep disorders are prominent early symptoms of disease, the patient continued total sleep time a significant reduction in serious cases, a day not more than one hours sleep, hypnotic invalid. Early signs of the disease including autonomic nerve dysfunction, pyramidal tract may be levy, cerebellar signs, dementia and clonic and other meat. The same family in some patients clinical manifestations of CJD can occur.
sleep maintenance insomnia
Generally recommended for sleep maintenance insomnia:
1, only when you go to bed until sleepy, go directly to sleep;
2, when you can not fall asleep quickly (15 minutes) to get up and leave the bed;
3, if necessary, repeat 1-2 step-by-step.
4 pills long-term effective treatment but can not be completely cured. recommendation to exchange with specialists, get more guidance and advice.
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insomnia causes
Insomnia causes can be divided into:
(1) Environmental factors: noise or light disturbance of sleep, heat or cold affect the sleep, bedding is strong or thick or too thin affect sleep. Environmental change such as the hospital or sleep in hotel can also cause insomnia.
(2) physical factors: reaction time difference and By the day shift to night work, as a result of the body clock has yet to adapt to the new circadian rhythm, it also insomnia.
(3) psycho-social factors: life events and stress can cause insomnia. Anxiety, fear, sadness and so is a common cause of temporary insomnia.
(4) physical diseases: a variety of painful diseases such as heart and lung disease, arthritis, advanced cancer, nocturnal enuresis, gastrointestinal disease, kidney failure, hyperthyroidism, such as Parkinson's disease is often caused insomnia.
(5) mental illness: depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder are often accompanied by insomnia and other symptoms.
(6) drugs: the most common cause of insomnia drugs caffeine, theophylline and a variety of stimulants, as well as inhibitors of alcohol and loss of appetite. This type of insomnia is called rebound insomnia.
(7) sleep disorders associated with: such as nightmares, night terrors syndrome.
(8) primary sleep disorders: such as idiopathic insomnia, delayed sleep phase syndrome or advanced sleep apnea syndrome.
(9) false insomnia: insomnia, also known as pseudo-sleep mistaken, is about to have been mistaken for sleep is not sleep. Some people think that insomnia fatigue.
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
Which drugs can cause insomnia?
Take Medication period, the patients suffer from insomnia, should first take into account the drug-induced insomnia, which is especially common in the elderly. The drugs can lead to insomnia is mainly the following categories:
(1) glycoside drugs: non-time dose, can reduce the renal clearance rate, decreased muscle tone, and some can also be caused by hemodynamic disorders of the rhythm, these side effects can cause insomnia.
(2) diuretic drugs: in particular, combination therapy may be caused by nocturnal polyuria, which disturb sleep; diuretic, the schedule too much potassium, the same rhythm can lead to cardiovascular disorders caused insomnia.
(3) anti-arrhythmic drugs: such as double-isopropyl Disopyramide and procaine amide could affect the quality of sleep.
(4) antihypertensive drugs: such as methyldopa, Rauvolfia element, such as clonidine not only can cause insomnia, can also have a stunning clothes syndrome, causing severe insomnia; improper dosage of antihypertensive drugs, often at night can cause low blood pressure , also can cause insomnia.
(5) β-blockers: β-yin of the drug lag in a lot of agents, in spite of the drugs in the pharmacological nature of the difference between the blood pressure but has a different role; some can cause low blood sugar and induced depression comprehensive symptoms, these side effects can cause insomnia.
(6) Antidepressants: maprotiline and the elderly prunelli commonly used chlorpromazine, imipramine and other antidepressants, can cause insomnia.
(7) anticholinergic drugs: in particular the treatment of Parkinson's disease drugs, as well as tricyclic antidepressants and amitriptyline, can cause irritability at night and insomnia caused by mental disorder.
(8) Amantadine: 16:00 administration, and occasionally can cause insomnia. Taking L-dopa can also occur syndrome insomnia and depression.
(9) pyrazole amine flavanone vinegar: for γ-aminobutyric acid derivatives, may act directly on the cerebral cortex, with the repair, activation, protect nerve cells. Experiment shows that can promote learning ability, delayed hypoxic selection of memory impairment and improve the role of the brain of glucose and energy reserves, improve brain function. However, the drug can not be taken in the evening, otherwise, would have agitated and excited to enter the state, leading to insomnia.
(10) glucocorticoid: such as prednisone, dexamethasone, prednisolone and other drugs, the use of large doses can cause increased excitability of the body and lead to insomnia, hyperhidrosis symptoms.
(11) painkillers efficient: as morphine, meperidine and other drugs, night use, because of its central nervous system stimulant often lead to symptoms such as insomnia.
(12) anti-asthmatic drugs: such as aminophylline, ephedrine and other drugs, night use, because of its central nervous system stimulant often lead to symptoms such as insomnia.
(13) isoniazid: Isoniazid for anti-TB drugs, the use of large doses when excited with the role of the central nervous system, often leads to symptoms such as insomnia.
(14) and stability of drugs: the stability and the amount of inappropriate drugs, and occasionally sleep in the elderly can lead to perversion, that is, during the daytime sedation, and reduce the body, reduce fluid intake, which led to night-time disorder and mental irritability.
In addition to the above drugs, such as anti-cancer drugs, antiepileptic drugs, oral contraceptives, thyroid preparations and certain drugs such as caffeine, can be excited to sleep affect the cerebral cortex.
The relationship between insomnia and sex
The United States has done a large number of physiologists survey found that not perfect sexual is important reasons for insomnia. When a person is in a strong sex drive and a long period of not physiological, the nervous system will be in a high state of excitement, anxiety, irritability, and insomnia have emerged one after another.
This is shown in the women become more prominent. This is because the male and female sexual desire, orgasm and sexual desire have faded in an instant big gap. Men would soon inspire the desire and sexual intercourse in the whole process can quickly achieve orgasm, after orgasm and sexual desire can be quickly dissipated. Therefore, once reached as long as the male orgasm (even after masturbation) can safely go to sleep quickly.
But women are different, women should have the desire to launch a long process, "platform" for a longer period, even after reaching sexual orgasm is slowly receding, so the process of women in sexual intercourse more difficult than men to achieve the perfect the degree of harmony, so that women are more prone to insomnia. Therefore, the American psychologist, suggested that the lack of normal sex life or sexual life is not perfect harmony of the important reasons for women insomnia.
Therefore, the perfect harmony of life to promote the role of sleep. Because after passionate sex, intense emotion to the body to relax, muscle fatigue after the meet was able to stretch, heart flutter in the pleasant to relax after. Therefore, the husband and wife sex life to be brought together to enjoy the wonderful experience, and then bed with the quilt, along with sleep.
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Thursday, 4 June 2009
Insomnia medication should not blindly!
According to doctors, patients of the insomnia irrational use drugs are quite common. The biggest problem is the blind to take medicine, just can not sleep then taking two sleeping pills. Sleeping pills are addictive, its easy to produce drug-dependent. Moreover, such a very long half-life of drugs, up to 50 hours, if people make use of lethargy, seriously affect the working and living. For insomnia, the patient should first analyze the reasons, and then targeted to deal with, do not use drugs blindly.
Dependence on sleeping pills also have a more serious sleep disorders. Most of the drugs involved mainly Chlordiazepoxide, stability, and phenobarbital, Seconal, such as speed. As the dose increased, the situation during the day and increase the effects of drug residues, the patient may be unresponsive, vague language, such as emotional disturbance evening. To make matters worse, patients often mistakenly believe that these symptoms are caused by insomnia, seek medical attention everywhere. Therefore, sleeping pills can not be used blindly.
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