Sleep Disorders: How to deal with them?

Healthy sleep allows you to restore the strength of the body. But, unfortunately, there is no person who does not have at least once in his life sleep disturbances in the form of insomnia, sensitive sleep, sleepwalking, talking in a dream, chronic disorders, etc. They manifest themselves in different ways: the disorder can only spread to the process of falling asleep , Or on awakening, or for the whole period of sleep, destroying the cycle of stages. In the latter case, a person often wakes up in the middle of the night and often can not fall asleep again. The next morning he is in for a broken state, which prevents him from living, working, creating.

Causes and Treatment

Before you do something, you need to understand the reasons. One of the main causes of sleep disorders, doctors call fatigue, anxiety caused by everyday problems. Therefore, it is so important to alternate work and rest, to sleep the right amount of hours. If the reason is just exhaustion, there are a few simple recommendations:

- Do not engage in active activities before going to sleep. It is better to take a bath with essential oils, drink a cup of soft tea,

- you can not eat 1.5 hours before bedtime,

- treat sleep more seriously (prepare for bed, go to bed early),

- to observe a mode of a dream and wakefulness, despite days off, holidays and holiday that the organism for ever has got used to such rhythm of a life ,

- focus on the biological clock (if you are an "owl", keep this in mind when planning your daily routine).

We recommend that you follow these rules to avoid disturbing sleep. It's still better than getting carried away by sleeping pills.

The external stimuli also affect sleep: light, sound, etc. People who are particularly sensitive, these factors out of balance and, of course, break sleep. Some medicines have such a side effect: drowsiness. Attentive acquaintance with the instruction of the taken preparations should become one of the main rules of taking care of oneself.

Among the more serious causes of sleep disorders are called mental illness, neurology, psychosomatics. Without curing the disease, it is impossible to return a healthy dream, but in this situation, medicines are welcome if they are prescribed by a doctor.

From the methods of psychotherapy for the treatment of sleep disorders, hypnosis, specialist advice, and self-hypnosis training are used.

Do not neglect treatment, because the lack of healthy sleep affects the physical and mental health of a person.

Instructions for parents

Sleep disorders in a child are mainly associated with fears. Children have violent fantasies, fear of darkness - and if these two circumstances combine, a bad dream occurs in the child. How to help your child avoid nightmares and frequent waking?

Sleep helps the brain process the information received during the day. Therefore, to awaken the child, even if his dream seems restless (the pupils are actively moving, the child screams), still not worth it. Give the children's brain the ability to do its job. Upon awakening, explain that a terrible dream is not a reality and it is normal to experience in a dream what you saw in the day. In no event can you tell terrible stories about Babaika, the "gray bull", which bites. This will disturb the sleep of the baby, as it will give the ground for imagination.

Sleep disorders can be triggered by changes in the life of the child, both serious and minor from the point of view of the parents. You should talk with the baby about the changes in his life and calm him down. If the parents succeed, the sleep will improve.

The main thing that parents should take care of is the regime of sleep and wakefulness of children, since sufficient sleep time (11-12 hours) ensures normal development and growth of the child's body.

Lack of sleep leads to anxiety, fatigue and inadequate behavior. Strangely enough, lack of sleep can manifest itself in the increased excitability and activity of the child, anxiety, attention impairment, which is expressed in schoolchildren in reducing academic performance.

And, of course, do not feed the children before going to bed and play with them in noisy games. It is better for the child to provide the necessary silence. It should be given to the child to fall asleep on his own: do not sit with him until he falls asleep (the exception is the first year of the baby's life and the situation when the child is very frightened). Otherwise your child will not learn to calm down and can not fall asleep without you.