Sleep is an extremely important stage of life activity, when a person gets an opportunity to restore their resources. During cell regeneration and restoration, important hormonal and metabolic processes are actively taking place.
If sufficient sleep is absent in a person’s life, the negative effects of stress, oxidative stress increase, aging processes accelerate, cells don’t regenerate, and over time, this leads to negative health consequences (chronic fatigue, blood pressure and cardiovascular problems, apathy and depression, inattention and poor concentration at work, more active aging, etc.).
Sleep disturbance is manifested by insomnia. It’s short, poor-quality sleep, problems falling asleep, and regular awakenings in the middle of the night. As a result, in the morning, a person doesn’t feel sleepy and rested. The optimal duration of healthy sleep is 7-8 hours a day.
Symptoms of insomnia can manifest themselves in the following ways:
Sleep disturbances can occur due to the following causes:
If sleep problems are a non-permanent phenomenon, it’s possible to cope on your own:
Often, we try to self-prescribe treatment on the advice of friends, advertising posters, pharmacists in pharmacy chains, and the Internet, which don’t take into account the individual causes and peculiarities of the course of the disease in each patient.
Especially since the causes of insomnia are not always obvious. If it’s unclear what causes it and it becomes regular, it’s already a reason to consult a doctor, and it’s especially important to check the state of your health.
What doctors can be consulted for sleep problems?
Most likely, after examination, the doctor will consider it necessary, besides adjusting your lifestyle, to prescribe laboratory and instrumental examinations to identify the causes of your ailment. And only after a full range of examinations, will the doctor decide on the treatment tactics suitable for you.
It should be noted that the treatment of insomnia is a complex of medication and psychological effects.
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