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Symptoms of disease - sleep disorders

Sleep disorders are manifested insomnia or, on the contrary, increased drowsiness. They can be the result of brain damage caused by violation of the circulation or the manifestation of the doldrums. In the first case, especially in the acute period of stroke, expressed sleep disorders indicate the gravity of the defeat and the less favourable prognosis.

The normal hours of sleep in different people varies considerably - from 4-5 hours, up to 10-12. I.e. there are healthy short sleepers and long sleepers people. The main indicator of the norms of sleep is a sense of relaxation after him. If this does not happen, then we can speak about the violation of the sleep-Wake cycle.

Pathological increase in the duration of sleep (hypersomnia) may be for a number of conditions, including endocrine, neurological, rheumatic. However, the most often hypersomnia occur as manifestations of depression. The so-called seasonal depression are characterized by an increase in the duration of the night sleep. After awakening, the person does not feel rested, and during the day worries sleepiness, increased appetite for sweets. Hypersomnia can be combined with irritability, unreasoning anxiety, pain in the muscles, which is also typical for depressions.

Shortening of sleep, or insomnia, are more common hypersomnia. They can be of several types, depending on the length of sleep disrupted:
- sleep
- the awakening
- sleep period between them

All of these types of insomnia may occur as in mental (neuroses, depression, drug addiction, alcoholism), and bodily diseases (endocrine, chronic liver and kidney diseases, chronic pain syndromes, skin diseases, osteochondrosis of the spine).

Disorders of sleep, as a rule, connected with alarming phenomena and increased emotional excitability. Arising out of the desire to sleep volatilizes. as soon as patients are in bed, there are painful thoughts and memories, increases motor activity and a desire to find a comfortable position.

It is possible enhancement of the available during the day of skin itching or pain. Often formed fear associated with the onset of sleep, acquiring an obsessive character. If you are falling asleep in a healthy person is in a few minutes (3-10 min), patients it is delayed to a 30-40 minute, and sometimes more.

Middle insomnia are manifested a sense of a lack of deep sleep, frequent revivals and the difficulty falling asleep after them. In the morning the dream seems to be insufficient, or even may be the feeling Ponoi insomnia at night, although objectively the number of time in a dream can be 6-7 hours. Awakening in the middle of the night due to both external (first of all sounds, for surface and troubled sleep) and internal factors (night terrors, vegetative shifts in the form of respiratory disorders, tachycardia or urgency to urinate during sleep). All of these factors can awaken and healthy people. however, in patients by insomnia awakening is much easier, and the process of falling asleep after this episode awakening difficult.

Post insomnia are manifested in the early awakening. As a rule, they are connected with the appearing in the early hours of the morning alarm, and meet with nervousness and depression. Sleep brings no feeling of rest and revival, not looking at unmotivated alarm, "sleepy" - i.e., is characterized by the inability to quickly engage in active, apathy and reduced mood.

Which diseases there is sleep disorders

Sleep disorders varied. In accordance with the International classification of diseases sleep disorders are classified as follows:
- Disturbance of sleep and the sleep duration (insomnia).
- Excessive duration of sleep (hypersomnia).
- Violation of the sleep-Wake cycle.
- Of sleep apnea.
- Narcolepsy and cataplexy.
- Other sleep disorders.
- Sleep disturbances, unspecified.

Reason for the increased drowsiness (hypersomnia):
- Physical, mental or emotional fatigue; reception of sedatives, antianginal, protivosudorozhnykh drugs, and alcohol; state in the period of recovery from infectious diseases, epidemic encephalitis.
Nevrastenia, depression, different kind of asthenic syndrome in chronic diseases.
- Narcolepsy, a syndrome of periodic hibernation when the lesion is gipotalamicescoy area.
- Rough defeat of the hypothalamic-mesencephalic region of a brain tumor, an inflammatory process (epidemic encephalitis); intoxication

Causes of insomnia:
- Emotional stress, changes in a familiar environment of sleep and short-term physical illness, pain.
- Functional disorders of the nervous system, menopause, depression, the emergence of the disease, long-term pain, epidemic encephalitis.
- The neurotic condition, organic defeat of the hypothalamic-mesencephalic area, chronic somatic disease, senile insomnia.

The reasons Blowjob rhythm sleep (sleep during the day because of the broken night's sleep)
- Compensatory when long term insomnia Pycvin's syndrome in the defeat of the hypothalamic-pituitary area (obesity, disruptive sleep at night because of infringement of a rhythm of breathing, intense snoring and "lung heart").

Which doctor should I contact if there is a sleep disorders

• Neurologist
• Psychiatrist
• Psychologist

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