According to the World Health Organization, more than 30% of the elderly have serious sleep problems, and as they age, their sleep problems will become more serious.
Although the investigators only surveyed a small number of older adults, we should know that it is difficult to investigate the sleep status of all older groups.
Although these survey data have certain limitations, they can still reflect the severity of sleep problems in the elderly population.
Therefore, we must be vigilant in order to prevent the elderly from being harmed.
It is very common for the elderly to wake up at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night, and I believe that most elderly people have had such a situation.
Although after getting older, people's sleep time will gradually shorten. But getting up at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night is not a good phenomenon, because many elderly people will enter endless insomnia after waking up at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night.
In the long run, the sleep quality of the elderly will be affected. The reason for this situation is inseparable from the following three reasons.
1, organ aging: with the growth of age, the organs in the elderly will gradually age.
After aging, the organs will have a functional decline, which will cause the physiological activities in the elderly to be negatively affected.
Therefore, many elderly people will have health problems such as breathing difficulties, abdominal pain and diarrhea in the middle of the night, which will affect the sleep state of the elderly and make the elderly show the symptoms of getting up in the middle of the night.
2, mental pressure: life and old illness and death is a process that everyone needs to go through, while getting older, the fear of death and disease in the elderly will slowly increase.
While the sense of fear increases, the mental pressure of the elderly themselves is also increasing significantly, which will make the elderly have a variety of psychological problems, and over time, sleep disorders will come to the door.
3, hormone secretion: melatonin is an important hormone that governs the body's sleep, and its secretion at night is much more than during the day.
However, with the increase of age, the amount of melatonin secretion in the elderly will gradually decrease, which will break the biological clock of the elderly and make them show sleep disorders. But this is a normal physiological phenomenon, and we don't need to be overly nervous about it.
Frequent night up will affect the sleep quality of the elderly, sleep quality decline, the aging rate of the elderly will rise significantly, which will make the elderly's body hurt, and then affect the physical health of the elderly.
In addition, regular night up will also make the elderly show the following two conditions, it is recommended that the elderly be vigilant about this, and go to the hospital in time to seek medical treatment, you can get treatment in the best time.
1, Alzheimer's disease: Alzheimer's disease is more likely to occur in the elderly group, it is a neurological disease, and currently medical scientists have not found an effective cure for Alzheimer's disease.
Therefore, for the elderly, the prevention of Alzheimer's disease is a crucial link.
Frequent night up is a causative factor in the incidence of Alzheimer's disease, in the process of frequent night up, the elderly body will be deposited in large quantities of amyloid protein, which will increase the incidence of Alzheimer's disease probability, so that the elderly body out of harm.
2, diabetes: regular night up will also affect the hormone secretion in the elderly, hormone secretion disorders, the elderly body control blood sugar hormones can not play its value, which will make the elderly blood sugar content rise significantly, and then increase the chance of the elderly diabetes.
Aging is an unavoidable process, in the face of aging, we must resist our own negative emotions, and let ourselves face the future of old age with a positive and optimistic attitude towards life. Only in this way can the physical health of the elderly be guaranteed.
In addition, as children, we should also often take our parents to the hospital for physical examination, and pay close attention to the physical condition of our parents, so that our parents can avoid the torment of diseases and make their bodies more healthy.