Its already night and its time to sleep everybody in your house is already sleep, But you, you feel agitated and tense. Worrying about going to sleep and this prevent you from falling asleep. The harder you try the less sleep you get, Worst of all you begin to associate your bedroom with frustration, worry and wakefulness - anything but sleep. Maybe you have sleeping disorder here a list of common sleeping disorder that you may want to know.
Insomnia- The mother of all sleep disorders afflicts about 40 percent of women and 30 percent of men, according to experts. Simply put, insomnia is a disorder wherein falling asleep is a difficult as staying asleep. Sleep experts classify insomnia according to its duration and cause, and refer to three types: transient for example jet lag, short term examples are stress related may lass up to three weeks, and last is long term (may involve serious psychiatric conditions.)
Sleep Apnea - Don't let the funny name fool you people with sleep apnea literally stop breathing many times during the night while sleeping. Each episode of apnea usually ends with a loud snore, snort, or chortling sound, as breathing resumes. Anyone can develop it t any age although it is more common in men.
Narcolepsy - A serious lifelong, potentially disabling, and weird sleep disorder that affects one of every 1,000 people. The disorder is rarely diagnose. Picture this scenario: Its daytime but you can help falling asleep (on the job, at the wheel, wherever). You suddenly lose voluntary muscle tone and collapse for no reason. You sleep begins and ends with the most terrifying nightmare imaginable. You become temporarily paralyzed just when you're about to sleep or wake up. This is how to be a narcoleptic.
Restless Leg syndrome (RLS) - A fate you'd wish upon your worst enemy's, RLS causes crawling and twitching sensations beneath the skin, usually in the lower legs. These symptoms can sometimes be relieved by movement, such as walkng, unless you're sleepwalking RLS means countless sleepless nights.
The way we Eat affects the way we Sleep
How and what we eat can affect our sleep, for example if we go to bed hungry chances are we may have difficulty getting to sleep. And we manage to sleep hunger assault us back and wake up us in the middle of the night. Vice-versa if we have a huge meal close to bedtime still we will have difficulty in sleeping, because our digestive system is working overtime. But some people can sleep with full stomach and they are better with it. But if your the type of person who's not used to eat before bedtime, then don't have a midnight snack.
What you eat is important too, There is good evidence that food high in carbohydrates (such as bread or cereal) makes us sleepy, whereas food high in protein (meat, nuts, etc) tends to make us more alert. Milk another healthy food contains amino acid called tryptophan that helps induce sleep. British researchers have shown that milk mixed with chocolate drinks can help reduce restlessness in the second half of the night. Both these drinks are high in carbohydrates, which may be what makes them effective. So my conclusion is eat right to sleep right.
Some people when they are sleeping experience snoring, this because of fatigue from a busy day, irritability and some health problems. And maybe it can be a symptoms of sleep apnea a condition that when you are asleep your breathing pauses, than can conclude to heart attack or stroke. Aged people are more prone to this kind of condition
Here are some useful tips to avoid snoring:
1. Don't eat too much before you sleep - hard to breath can often cause by too much eating so avoid eating too much before you sleep.
2. Don't drink alcohol before you sleep - drinking alcohol before you sleep can cause for our throat muscle too relax that can cause us to snore.
3. Try to avoid sleeping pills, tranquilizers, and pain killers - These drugs include alcohol, sleeping pills, antihistamines, and pain medicine (especially narcotics). The drugs relax your muscles and cause the tongue to fall backward. Relaxed throat muscles may draw in from the sides and narrow the airway
4. If you are overweight try to lose weight - being overweight can make your stomach compress your lung causing lower lung volumes, more weight around the neck area can cause the anatomy of the throat to be tighter and cause snoring, ten percent on your weight loss are effective enough for you to stop from snoring.
5. Stop smoking - Smoking affects the airways and sinuses causing swelling in the membranes of the nose and the tissues of the throat. Smoking also damages the small vessels of the lungs by blocking them. The nicotine itself also can cause sleep disruptions that can increase the nightly snoring.
6. Try to sing 20 minutes everyday - sound funny but it can help our throat muscle to be strong than can prevent us from snoring.
7. Try to sleep sideways - people who sleep on there back are more prone to snoring.
8. Try to cure your allergy in your air passage - allergy too can cause us snoring and hard to breath.
