When you are hard Sleep

Everyone needs sleep. Unfortunately, there are people who have trouble sleeping. At night, when the body should be resting, they even stay awake. Can not sleep. If the condition persists, sleep patterns can be chaotic and ultimately damage the health.

Nighttime is the time to rest. After a day of activities, the body requires at least 8 hours for rest. Sleep gives the body a chance to regenerate. However, not everyone can sleep well at night.

A friend complained about the condition could not sleep that happened long ago. "I can not sleep," he said Rianti.

It's almost a year, 37-year-old woman could not sleep on time like most people. "For some reason, I'm not sleepy. I could be awake all day without feels sleepy, but never to sleep long enough, from 7 am until around 1 or 2 pm" she said.

Since no year with the condition, Rianti then taking a sedative. "To be able to sleep comfortably," he said.

Insomnia, as mentioned in the book Come on, wake up with the Right Fit For Sleep is a symptom with complaints of insomnia, easy to wake up, wake up too early, or sleep quality. However, the definition of insomnia is not enough because many people who describe the complaint, but felt fine.

Therefore, insomnia and then engage the symptoms while awake. The definition of insomnia is also equipped with experiencing one or more symptoms of sleep are accompanied by complaints in the daytime, such as fatigue, sleepiness, mood disturbance, decreased cognitive abilities, and impaired social relationships.

New Symptoms

"Insomnia many kinds. Can be due to drugs, illness, or disease. But the simplest is due to a lack of healthy sleep habits," says Dr. Andrew Prasadja, RPSGT.

Problems that can happen to anyone. Men and women of various age groups can be equally experienced insomnia.

"Only thing to understand, the new insomnia symptoms. Diagnosis can vary," says sleep expert from the Sleep Disorders Clinic RS Mitra Kemayoran Jakarta.

Just like a fever, a new symptom, the diagnosis of fever could be flu, dengue fever, or typhoid. So there may be behind the problem can not sleep it. For example, delayed sleep phase or delayed sleep phase. Complaints that arises is insomnia, but patients are only able to sleep at 3 am. So, hours of sleep just a shift.

"Delayed sleep phase insomnia is not classified. Class circadian rhythm disorder, but symptoms are insomnia," added Dr. Andreas.

There are a While

Broadly speaking, insomnia is a temporary and permanent. Called while if insomnia occurs for one night to two weeks. Difficulty sleeping while it could be due to spike the emotions of grief, stress, or the overwhelming joy, the difference in time zones, shift work, or are in the new environment.

While insomnia lasts longer lived up to chronical. The reason could be due to stomach acid that rises when lying down, restless legs syndrome (moving), some sleep apnea patients, other diseases that cause pain, and prolonged anxiety.

Knowing the causes of insomnia to be a way to overcome insomnia. In addition, insomnia resolved by modifying the behavior of sleep so that more healthy sleeping patterns. "The drugs are given only when needed. It also must be under the supervision of a doctor," said Dr. Andreas.

Signs Insomnia:

- It's hard to sleep despite feeling tired

- Frequent waking at night

- It's hard to go back to sleep after waking

- Depending on the medicine for sleep or sleep alkhol

- Wake up too early in the morning

- Feeling sleepy, tired or irritable during the day

- It's hard to concentrate throughout the day