Other names: sleep problem

Sleep disorders are nowadays a very common problem. People live under stress, are overworked, alternating them day and night shifts. All this has a very negative impact on their sleep.

Among sleep disorders include both insomnia (insomnia) and excessive sleepiness (hypersomnia).It also circadian rhythm disorders such as. Jet lag syndrome in a plane crossing time zones and faults in the quality of sleep, including sleepwalking, nightmares, terrors, teeth grinding, nocturnal legcramps, involuntary urination and abnormal behavior in REM sleep (stage responsible for the appearance of dreams).

About Insomnia can find more symptoms of insomnia.

Excessive sleepiness is often even worse than insomnia because people can not fully digest the current day and only sleeps most of his life. This is either an extension of nighttime sleep or need to sleep during the daytime.

Hypersomnia is also a common symptom of certain diseases – depression, dementia, multiple sclerosis and infectious diseases of the brain. Secondary hypersomnia accompanied by night insomnia when a person is tired, then during the day, or even obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (a disorder of breathing during sleep, snoring), restless leg syndrome, and psychosis.

Primary hypersomnia (without cause) is called narcolepsy. It is characterized by recurrent falling asleep during the daytime, the day temples are often of short duration (5-30 min.) And the patient invigorated. Other associated symptoms may include sleep paralysis and cataplexy. Cataplexy is a sudden loss of muscle tone in the preserved consciousness before falling asleep or upon waking and during sleep paralysis are impeded free movement under the same circumstances. Primary hypersomnia can be treated by administering stimulants (eg. Modafinil) and antidepressants on sleep paralysis and cataplexy (abroad proved successful product Xyrem).

Among circadian rhythm disorders apart from the aforementioned jet lag syndrome syndrome alsodelayed or vice versa early stages of sleep, when the patient falls asleep and wakes either late also in the late morning or vice versa fall asleep too early and waking up early in the morning. In the first case, it is often young people, and in the latter, on the contrary older people. These syndromes sleeping person enough and does not need to modify sleep medications only is good to adapt the daily regimen this displaced sleep. It can however also be used hormone melatonin (even with jet lag syndrome and insomnia).

For sleep disorders, which arose as a result of any other illness, it is advisable to treat the underlying cause.