Description hypertension Hypertension or high blood pressure, is one of the commonest cardiovascular diseases. This disease is nowadays mass market.According to statistics, the hypertension treated about 20% of adults. Although this number is already quite high and does not include…
insomnia
Other names: insomnia
Sleep disorders nowadays bothering a lot of people. This may be a part of some diseases, however, often is insomnia independent problem. Sometimes it may be related to poor diet, stress,workload, night shifts alternating with daily like. The need for sleep is not an individual (an average of 6-8 hours, but there are also people who just four hours of sleep) and a disease state considered insomnia when if the patient does not sleep enough rest.
Sleeplessness (insomnia) is subjectively perceived decline in quality or quantity of sleep (or both), accompanied by a frequent consequences of daily wakefulness (sleepiness). Insomnia include sleep disturbance and sleep continuity, including early awakening. Accordingly, also manages drug therapy, which is talk to your doctor. Are used, some benzodiazepines (midazolam, nitrazepam, bromazepam, alprazolam), which, however, often cause addiction (but may be good in the present states of anxiety). Less addictive drugs such as zolpidem (Stilnox, Hypnogen), zopiclone (Imovane) or zaleplon, although it is not recommended to take a long time (max. 1 month, but rather only a few days). Their further advantage is the rapid onset of action.
Today it gets to market a new drug containing the sleep-inducing hormone melatonin natural sleep.
Sicknesses with this symptom:
Lice
Description lice Lice, or pediculosis Two kinds of lice Head lice and its life cycleSpread all the parents and child with pediculosis Lice, or pediculosis When we talk about lice infestation portable parasitic diseases.Can affect humans, regardless of their…
Pinworms
Description infection pinworms The disease is a parasitic infection. It raises worm namedEnterobius (synonym Oxyuris) vermicularis. She lives in the small and large intestine of man. The disease is only human, and most often affects children of preschool and school…
Malnutrition
Description malnutrition Malnutrition is a condition where the individual has a shortage of nutrients necessary for the function of the organism. May be the lack of essential nutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins) or lack certain parts of food (such as vitamins,…
Insomnia
Description insomnia Insomnia or if insomnia is the most common sleep disorders group, whose main symptom is sleep disorder or sleep patterns(interrupted sleep, early awakening). Sleep disorders are divided by principal causes for insomnia(sleeplessness), hypersomnia (excessive sleepiness), circadian rhythm disorders…
Yeast infection
Description yeast infection Candida are unicellular fungi that during the development of the human species have become a normal part of the flora of the skin and mucous membranes. Their coexistence with humans is an example of commensalism – a…
Hyperthyroidism
Description of hyperthyroidism Hyperthyroidism is a relatively common disorder in which thethyroid gland produces more hormones (thyroxine andtrijodtyroxinu) than the body needs. The disease affects roughly 2% of the adult population and more women than men. In this disease in…
Dementia
Description dementia Dementia is a term that denotes a serious mental disorder that arises in the course of human life after the completion of the development of the cognitive functions. Under the term cognitive function includes a wide variety of…
Delirium
Description of delirium Delirium is a mental disease ranking among the qualitative disorders of consciousness. Among its basic manifestations include sensory disturbances (delusions and hallucinations), thought disorder (delusions, and incoherence), emotive disorders (increased or decreased expression of emotions, to apathy)…
Cushing’s syndrome
Description of Cushing’s syndrome Cushing’s syndrome is an endocrine disorder characterized by increased production of cortisol, a steroid hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Its necessity is to regulate carbohydrate metabolism and also in improving glycemic control (blood glucose) in…