Insomnia is a common sleep disorder in modern people. In the impression of many people, insomnia is only a small problem, and naturally there is no serious disease such as diabetes, stomach, liver and kidneys. However, as one of the basic guarantees of human health, sleep factors, insomnia can trigger many diseases.
Insomnia can be divided into mild, moderate and severe according to the severity of the disease, mainly manifested as difficulty falling asleep, inability to fall asleep, short time, inability to sleep after early awakening, and dreams. People who often have insomnia are very prone to depression and neurasthenia, which affect memory, cause people's judgment to decline, and even appear mental disorders, at the same time. People with long-term insomnia, the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease, hypertension, and diabetes is also very high, and insomnia will have a serious negative impact on personal life and health and work and study.
Insomnia often occurs in the elderly because of the slowing down of hormone secretion in the body and the lack of optimism. However, as a symbol of vitality for young people, insomnia, as one of the three major problems of anxiety, insomnia and hair loss, has been aggravating in recent years.
So what are the culprits that cause insomnia to become more serious?
1. Physical causes
Many diseases of the body can trigger primary insomnia problems. Cough, pain, etc. can seriously affect the quality of sleep. Modern people work and study under pressure, the body is in a state of excessive fatigue, but there will be difficulty in falling asleep, but also trigger dreams, shallow sleep and other effects on night rest, and further affect the normal work of the next day.
2. Mental causes
The spirit is in a state of overexcitement, tension and anxiety for a long time, which has a great impact on sleep, especially too intense activities before going to bed, such as watching stimulating TV shows or movies, playing stimulating games, k songs, drinking, etc., which will make the cortex of the brain in a state of excitement and unable to adapt to insomnia patterns, thereby hindering falling asleep and triggering anxiety.
3. Psychosocial causes
Because of the fierce social competition, contemporary young people are often under the heavy burden of work and study, in extreme anxiety about life and the future, too much thinking, too much mental pressure, there will be insomnia problems caused by psychological factors such as insomnia, dreams, and palpitations.
So for insomnia, what are the ways to assist sleep?
1. Having a good sleep environment is very important for the quality of sleep. The bedroom should be quiet, the room temperature should not be too high, the slightly lower room temperature helps sleep, and the bedroom curtains should also try to choose cool colors to create a quiet and peaceful sleeping environment.
2. Two hours before going to bed, it is necessary to minimize the intake of food and water, especially spicy and greasy food, which not only affects the quality of sleep, but also is not conducive to gastrointestinal rest.
3. Alcohol does not help sleep, but will cause mental excitement and inability to fall asleep. A glass of milk can be drunk before going to bed to help you fall asleep. Some people who cannot drink milk can also choose to eat some honey, lilies, dates and other foods that can improve the quality of sleep. Sleeping pills will have no small side effects and are prone to side effects, so be sure to use them under the guidance of a doctor.
4. A hot bath before going to bed, a hot water soaking feet, will help people relax their muscles, relieve stress, adjust the state, and enter sleep mode as soon as possible.
5. The mobile phone does not enter the bedroom is a good habit of supervising early sleep. Regardless of men, women and children, it seems that they have the habit of brushing their mobile phones before going to bed, and brushing their mobile phones for "five minutes" before going to bed is likely to cause two hours of sleep time to be wasted.
6. Proper physical exercise helps to improve the quality of sleep at night.
7. Have a regular sleep habit, go to bed early and get up early, even on weekends, do not sleep too late and get up too early to cause the disorder of the biological clock. You can have 15 to 30 minutes of nap time during the day, and if you sleep too long, it is likely to cause the consequences of "no sleep" at night.
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