Sleep disorder

Each adult at least once in life tested a sleep disorder and knows firsthand what is it. Causes of infringement of a dream there can be a set, but when these disturbances are single, appear incidentally and are connected with a certain irritant (situational), are not considered as a disease though, of course, and are unpleasant. As a problem with health speak about a sleep disorder when the patient endures such state regularly throughout a long time therefore quality of his life decreases.

The sleep disorder is very widespread problem, according to medical statistics it in this or that form more than 10% of the population, and it only those who ask for medical care have. It is considered that if to consider those who make attempts to treat sleep disorders independently then this figure has to be, it is at least doubled.

Types of sleep disorders

It is usual to consider a main type of a sleep disorder sleeplessness though it only one of frustration. Now the following classification of sleep disorders is accepted:

1. Insomniya, or sleeplessness. Disorder of backfilling and ability to be in a condition of a dream during the time necessary for rest. Insomniya can be called by various reasons: diseases, including mental, reception of medicines, alcohol, coffee, respiratory frustration during sleep, syndrome of "uneasy legs", stress and so forth.
2. Hypersomnia, or pathological drowsiness. Also it can be caused by existence of diseases – from mental to infectious, reception of medicinal and narcotic substances, respiratory frustration.
3. Disturbance of the correct alternation of a dream and wakefulness. Even the caused by household factors, for example, constantly changeable working schedule, such disturbances of the mode can lead to a persistent sleep disorder. This type of frustration is divided in turn into a syndrome of the slowed-down dream period, a syndrome of the premature period of a dream, a syndrome not - a 24-hour cycle of days.
4. Parasomniya. It disorders of function of a dream during which there is a failure in dream phases, incomplete awakening, the increased physical activity, etc. Treat them: "lunacy", enuresis, attacks of nightmares, night epileptic seizures and other functional sleep disorders.

Dream causes of infringement

The set of factors can act as the reasons of sleep disorders. The susceptibility to situational factors depends on individual properties of mentality. People irritable and impressionable easily lose a usual sleep pattern and wakefulness, and often even the insignificant psychoemotional shock can be an incitement of development of sleep disorders.

If it is not about situational frustration, and about constant, then the somatopathy is the most frequent cause of infringement of a dream at adults. The circle of the diseases causing frustration of a dream is very wide. It can be nervous, mental disorders, brain tumors, endocrine diseases, diseases of cardiovascular system, etc. Such diseases can be the cause of frustration of a dream at children, but are not the main as at children's age they meet much less often.

One of the frequent reasons of sleep disorders is abuse of medicines, especially in self-treatment cases. In the same group of the reasons it is possible to refer frustration of a dream because of excess reception of kofeinsoderzhashchy drinks (the tea, coffee, power tonics popular recently, especially among young people), and also the use, especially systematic, alcohol or drugs.

Sleep disorder at children, especially early age, often are caused by pathology of a nervous system of inborn character, or acquired as a result of a birth trauma. In other cases it is generally about the behavioural frustration caused by the wrong organization of process of withdrawal to a dream or disturbance of a feeding behavior, for example, late meal, irregular meal, evening reception of trudousvaivayemy food.

Can seem strange, but the wrong organization of a dream can serve as a dream cause of infringement at adults in not smaller degree. Lack of a day regimen, usual rituals of withdrawal to a dream, the wrong diet and unsuccessfully chosen place for night rest can as well as at small children, cause persistent sleep disorders.

Diagnosis of sleep disorders

As frustration of a dream often is a symptom of serious diseases, carrying out careful diagnosis is required, especially at the persistent, long sleep disorders resulting in chronic fatigue, decrease in attention, working capacity, and other symptoms of a constant sleep debt. The general examination and neurologic inspection using methods laboratory (biochemical indicators of blood, urine and so forth) and an equipment room (EEG, an ECG, a brain tomography and so forth) diagnoses is conducted.

Treatment of sleep disorders

If the disease which served as the frustration development reason, then treatment of sleep disorders is revealed consists, mainly, in treatment of a basic disease. For elimination of sleep disorders in this case soft sedative drug, but only after consultation of the doctor treating a basic disease can be in addition used.

Treatment of sleep disorders, as a rule, complex, consists of use of medicamentous and non-drug means. Use soothing and somnolent drugs, with carefully calculated dosage as many of them at uncontrolled use can cause accustoming and even back reaction – to serve as the reason of strengthening of a sleep disorder, especially often after cancellation.

Non-drug treatment of sleep disorders consists first of all, in the correct organization of process of withdrawal to a dream. There are general recommendations, following to which in certain cases helps to get rid of sleeplessness, even without resorting to medicines. So, easy hydrotherapeutic procedures, etc. are very important for patients with sleep disorders sufficient physical activity with avoiding of overfatigue, walk in the fresh air before going to bed, a day regimen and food.

From medical means good results are yielded by physiotherapeutic procedures: (an electrosleep, calcium - a galvanic collar on Shcherbaka, etc.), bathtubs with extracts of herbs (a sage, needles) or oxygen bathtubs, foot massage and a collar zone, ozonotherapy. The psychotherapy course is in certain cases shown. Sleep disorders, even resistant, are successfully treated by means of balneology. In this case a positive role is played by change of a situation, lack of usual irritants, the organization of good rest and healthy nutrition, and also a balneoterapiya, mud cure, thalassotherapy and other soft, but effective remedies of treatment of sleep disorders by means of natural factors.