World Sleep Day, how to save our sleep quality

Yesterday, it was World Sleep day. With the increasing pressure of social life, people's sleep problems are becoming more and more common, which reduces people's life quality and work efficiency.

According to a Qinghai Red Cross Hospital, "Qinghai region at different altitudes of people sleep and snoring epidemiological survey," showed that more than one-third of the population in Xining District sleep disorder. Elevation is one of the key factors affecting sleep, at 3500 meters, the incidence of sleep disorders is twice times more than in Xining.

The increase of the age, the incidence of sleep disorders increased significantly, the incidence of sleep disorders over 50 years of age more than 60%.

The incidence of sleep difficulty, morning headache, lack of sleep is higher than that of men, and the incidence of other symptoms are higher in males.

Nearly one-fifth children under 10 years of age have sleep disorders

The survey focused on sleep disorders such as sleep snoring, open mouth breathing, apnea, sleep easily disturbed, enuresis, sleep difficulties, morning headache, consciously obvious lack of sleep these symptoms. The incidence of total sleep disturbance was also different in all age groups. The results showed that the incidence of sleep disorders was 19.83% in children under 10 years of age. Mainly by snoring, mouth breathing, sleep insecurity, enuresis, lack of sleep mainly.

Qinghai Red Cross Hospital Sleep medicine chief physician Han Lijuan is the main head of the epidemiological survey, she believes that children with sleep disorders may be in childhood, tonsil, glandular-like body development.

Enuresis is a specific sleep disorder that often coexists with many other sleep problems in children. Enuresis can increase the incidence of other sleep problems, the more severe the enuresis, the more sleep problems. The occurrence of child enuresis in our province is more common in many children's families in high altitude area. Li Lijuan that this is related to climatic conditions, dry and cold climate, increased the lazy mood at night, so that the possibility of night urine increased, at the same time, the family of many children neglect supervision and night management, but also increase the possibility of nocturnal enuresis another reason.

Over 3500 meters above sea level, the quality of sleep drops seriously.

According to the survey, the incidence of sleep disorders in different elevation areas is different, especially the symptoms of mouth breathing, sleep disturbance and morning headache, which have significant difference in different regions.

"Especially in areas above 3500 meters above sea level, the incidence of sleep disorders is significantly higher than that in the lower elevations, and the incidence of sleep disorders is as high as 65.8%." The incidence of Xining is 36.8%. "Li Lijuan said, this and alpine hypoxia, pressure changes have a clear relationship, the higher altitude hypoxia more severe, sleep disorder, the incidence of symptoms is higher."

Insomnia in middle-aged people is the most prominent

Insomnia is a major problem affecting people's sleep, with about 40% of people suffering from or suffering from insomnia. According to the results of the survey, the incidence of sleep disorders between the ages of 30 to 40 and the incidence of sleep disorders between 40 and 50 years were significantly higher, with 38.74% and 61.62% respectively. In this stage, the performance of sleep disorder is more stage characteristic.

"People aged 30 to 50 are more prominent in sleep disorders, such as difficulty falling asleep, morning headache and lack of sleep," he said. "Li Lijuan said. On the one hand, the body size of this age group began to change significantly, weight gain, obesity rate increased. Plus at this stage, people's life and work pressure increased, the phenomenon of irregular life increased, excessive fatigue syndrome is more prominent. However, at this stage of the crowd, the lack of attention to their own situation, the family, units and society to this crowd expectations higher, but also increased the physical and mental pressure of this crowd.

The incidence of various symptoms of sleep disorders in people over 50 years of age is higher. This age group not only increased the proportion of obesity, but with the increase in age, muscle began to relax, local fat accumulation, snoring, mouth breathing, sleep apnea is still an important problem of sleep disorders. Plus some of the elderly in the daytime activities too little, daytime rest sleep more, make night sleep more difficult, and increase the proportion of people with insomnia.

Rough neck causes sleep apnea

According to the survey results, morning headache, snoring, lack of sleep is the main effect of sleep in our province residents, the incidence of more than 7%.

There were significant differences in the incidence of snoring and apnea in men and women, and in different age groups. Between the ages of 30 and 50, males were significantly higher than females, reaching almost 3:1. After the age of 50, women's snoring and apnea gradually increased, and the ratio of men to women decreased markedly.

"This is because most women over the age of 50 are in menopause, the psychological, physiological, endocrine and other conditions have undergone significant changes." "Li Lijuan said.

According to the results, the rate of hypertension was higher in patients with sleep apnea in plateau area, and about 53% of apnea patients combined with hypertension. "Many hypertensive patients are caused by apnea," he said. "Li Lijuan said.

The most closely related factor of sleep apnea in our province is the patient's neck circumference. The greater the neck circumference, the greater the likelihood of sleep apnea, the greater the severity of the disease. And there are differences between men and women, male neck circumference in more than 42 centimeters, women in more than 39 centimeters, is the incidence of high-risk factors. The clinical incidence was six times times higher in males than in females.

Therefore, the male neck circumference of more than 42 cm, female neck circumference of more than 39 cm, and suffering from hypertension, long-term control of blood pressure is not obvious, Li Lijuan think, at this time is to highly doubt whether it is caused by apnea, suggest to the hospital to do sleep monitoring, according to the condition to take appropriate treatment (Author: Dangnan)

Insomnia 3 months must see a doctor

Now for many people, sleeping a good sleep has become a "luxury", some people because of long-term insomnia and even the fear of sleep. Who the hell stole our sleep? Insomnia to what extent need to see a doctor? This reporter interviewed the Qinghai Red Cross Hospital Sleep medicine chief physician Li Lijuan.

Insomnia is not sleep less

According to Li Lijuan, in recent years, the number of patients in the hospital to treat insomnia has increased year in, especially with the emotional problems of insomnia more and more patients. It is common among middle-aged women aged more than 40 and over 65 years old. In particular, the cause of more successful, more work pressure of senior executives, white-collar workers, such people often self-demanding, do anything to pursue perfection, women more prominent, the probability of insomnia symptoms are also higher.

In life, some people feel that they sleep less time at night, they feel insomnia, in fact, this is not scientific. The Chinese Medical Association Neurology branch of the Sleep Disorders Group in 2010 developed the China Adult Insomnia Diagnosis and treatment guidelines, pointed out that insomnia is usually referred to the patient's sleep time or quality is not satisfied, and affect the day social function of a subjective experience. Insomnia is mainly characterized by difficulty in falling asleep (more than 30 minutes of sleep), sleep maintenance disorders (more than two times a Night awakening), early awakening, decreased sleep quality and total sleep time (usually less than 6 hours), accompanied by daytime dysfunction. As can be seen from the definition of experts, insomnia refers to a prolonged period of time sleep is not good.

For people, sleep is more important than eating. A person does not eat things, can persist for 3 weeks; But if let a person not sleep, as long as 3 day and night, this person will become agonizing, the mood fluctuation, the memory drops, the judgment falls, even appears the illusion, the illusion, is difficult to live normally.

When to see a doctor

Insomnia to what extent need to see a doctor? More than 4 times a week insomnia, such a situation lasts 3 months to half a year, should go to the hospital to do the relevant checks, preferably do a sleep monitoring, find out the true causes of insomnia and insomnia type. Among them, women continue to wake early, but also to see age, whether in menopause, in addition, but also to consider their own feelings, to see whether there is a tendency to depression.

It's more exhausting to sleep.

Miss Liu at night total insomnia, often sleep two or three hours to wake up, and then tossing and turning open to the dawn, and later even developed to the day of the black she had a fear of sleeping psychology. Long-term insomnia caused her to have no spirit during the day and always feel sleepy. She felt that she did not sleep well at night and had to sleep more during the day, so she almost lay in bed every day except for the necessary activities.

and working small Zhang because the usual work too busy, lack of sleep, every weekend and so on holiday will be a big meal.

In this respect, Li Lijuan remind, not only can not relieve fatigue, but also may make people more lethargic, listless, and even aggravate the degree of insomnia. Long-term sleep depends on bed, will disrupt the body's original biological clock, so that metabolic disorders, resulting in night sleep, chronic insomnia. And the day's sleep does not necessarily help people regain their energy. If the sleeping time is too long, the body organizes the long-term stalemate not to move, will cause the waist sour back pain, the whole body weakness and so on the symptom, causes the person to become more and more tired. Therefore, it is recommended that people should adjust their daily life, regular living, even if the day nap does not exceed 30 minutes. To ensure normal sleep at the same time, to more outdoor sports, relax body and mind, adjust the biological clock.

Cultivate good habits

To prevent insomnia, improve the quality of sleep, the most important is to develop a good sleep habits:

Don't overeat at dinner. For those who are not easy to sleep, it is best not to drink alcohol, coffee, tea before bedtime, lest too excited to sleep.

It is also a good way to relax and massage your feet before bed with warm blisters.

Do not do intense exercise before bedtime, otherwise it will make the brain too excited. It's best to do some soothing exercises in the evening, such as walking, which can make you sleep faster at night.

Before you go to bed, make sure your mood is smooth, don't be too excited or sad, and the whole person should be in a state of relaxation. The best not to sleep before the mobile phone, computer and other electronic products, you can listen to a while soothing music or read a book, light do not tune very bright.

The time to sleep and get up every day should be as fixed as possible, so that the internal clock in the body prepares for sleeping and getting up. Bedroom temperature should not be too high, indoor layout should be warm for the keynote. Don't sleep with the light on, people who are particularly sensitive to light can install blackout curtains in their bedrooms to help them fall asleep as soon as possible.

After bed, if tossing and turning sleep for more than 15 minutes, can get out of bed to do some things that help relax, such as reading. You can't go to bed without sleeping.

What about insomnia?

For people with insomnia, first of all should adjust the schedule, even if you did not sleep the night before, the next day to get up, do not rely on bed, evening also do not need to go to bed in advance. As far as possible according to daily routine, can not sleep during the day to sleep, do not recommend the day to sleep, otherwise it will affect the night of sleep; the rhythm of life and normal people, increase the amount of exercise and physical labor during the day. At the same time, adjust the good mentality, not always a person to stay at home, should go out more, suggest to participate in collective activities, such as square dance, singing, or invite friends and family outing, mountain climbing, in the beautiful scenery of nature to relax, help improve the quality of sleep.

For people who have no effect in adjusting their schedule, suggest to the hospital to do the related examination, by the doctor to treat, it is best to do 1 to 3 nights of sleep monitoring, sleep monitoring is over, doctors can get a complete sleep monitoring report, through various indicators to assess the quality of sleep, the type and severity of sleep disorders. Physical therapies can also be taken, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation. Finally consider whether to take medication. (March 24, the Qinghai Red Cross Hospital Sleep Medicine Division will hold the first "Red Cross Sleep Health lecture hall" in the courtyard, interested readers can participate).

What to do with sleep breathing monitoring

Some patients who go to the hospital are often told to the doctor: "I often insomnia, always a night sleep!" "In this respect, the Qinghai Red Cross Hospital Sleep medicine chief physician Li Lijuan always first understand the cause of insomnia, but advised patients to do sleep breathing monitoring." In the monitoring process, she found that many patients with sleep cognitive impairment, that is, the lack of sleep awareness of the patient, can not understand their sleep structure, many people in the actual monitoring of the process of sleep is basically maintained normal. and suffer from sleep apnea syndrome is snoring, will bring the problem of body hypoxia, long-term hypoxia will bring great health risks. Therefore, patients with severe snoring are best diagnosed through sleep monitoring to facilitate treatment.

So what do patients need to do to get to the hospital to do sleep breathing monitoring? According to Li Lijuan, first appointment with the hospital, be sure to arrive at the hospital on time in accordance with the scheduled monitoring time, should bring the young family members to accompany, monitor the day do not use sleeping sedative drugs, do not smoke, drink, drink tea, coffee, cola and other beverages, long-term drug patients should stop medicine need to consult clinicians; And with loose and comfortable pajamas pajamas, before monitoring should be at home in the shower, after the shower do not use hair, hair care products, male patients to shave beard. (Author: Jia Zhongying)

As long as it's adjusted, Chunkun is not a thing.

In the spring, many people always feel sleepy and tired during the day, which is what people often say chunkun. In this respect, Xining City Chengbei District Hospital Internal Medicine Deputy Chief physician Li Huadong said, simple Chunkun is not disease, as long as the adjustment, you can keep away from Chunkun, energetic!

What's Chunkun?

Chunkun In fact is not morbid, is the physiological function of the human body with the natural climate changes and the emergence of a physiological phenomenon. The blood circulation of the human body has certain regularity, if the outside climate changes, the human body also can appear corresponding physiological reaction. such as winter, the human skin capillary by the cold stimulation, blood flow reduction, the brain and internal blood flow relative increase, so that the brain oxygen supply sufficient, so people tend to be clear-headed. Officially, as the temperature rises, skin capillaries and pores obviously diastolic, the body surface blood circulation with exuberant, blood supply more than winter obviously increase, this makes the blood flow into the brain less than the winter, the brain's oxygen supply decreased, resulting in brain nerve cell excitement reduced, the person can not adapt to such a climate change, will appear soft , listless, sleepy Chunkun phenomenon.

In life, the greater the age, the more serious the Chunkun phenomenon. This is because the elderly people many kidney-qi deficiency, resulting in poor blood operation.

Chunkun, what am I going to do?

Although the Chunkun phenomenon will gradually disappear, it will also adversely affect work and life. How can we get rid of Chunkun as soon as possible? Li Huadong recommends:

Early to bed, early to rise, not late.

To solve the Chunkun problem, we must first ensure adequate sleep time, so that the brain can be fully rested. Stay up late to the brain nervous system, liver and so on are damage, therefore, the spring try not to stay up late, lest induce and aggravate chunkun. Of course, not much sleep is good, more sleep easy to reduce the excitability of the cerebral cortex, so that it is in a state of inhibition, more to make people drowsy, listless, thus sleeping more sleepy. The rule of life, on time and rest, can nap at noon, can guarantee enough sleep, give the body a short time to adapt to the night, so as to ensure abundant physical strength.

Strengthen exercise and exercise more

Spring exercise not only can open heart, builds, but also can make qi and blood patency, stagnation evacuation, improve cardiopulmonary function, enhance physical fitness, people more easily adapt to the changes in the weather, to maintain exuberant energy. So spring should be more exercise, such as playing ball, swimming, walking, outing can be to promote blood circulation, body metabolism, so that the body function in good condition.

Often bask in the sun to solve the spring lack

Improve indoor air quality, pay attention to air circulation, often massage temples, bask in the sun is also conducive to the lifting of Chunkun.

Regulating diet

Spring food should be light, yellow green vegetables and fruits should often eat. Chunyang main hair, ginger, onion, leek and other Xin Gan Xiayang food can be appropriate to eat some. The spleen and stomach will also affect the sleep and spirit, so should not drink too much, not to eat greasy raw and cold food difficult to digest.

Pay attention to the mental recuperation

Spring not only strictly rage, anger big move, more bogey sentiment melancholy not shu. To be open-minded, cheerful, optimistic and happy, and sadness or worry over and so will hurt the body, can take advantage of the spring in a good summer outing or chat together, in order to maintain a healthy mood and full of mental state, the same can also maintain a person's physical stamina.

Young and middle-aged can do steam bath

The middle-aged and young people through the steam heat adjustment of qi and blood, contribute to circulation, prevent the occurrence of Chunkun.

Wipe Balm to refresh

When you are sleepy, rub some balm, mint oil, or drink coffee or tea to lift your spirits.

Skillfully using the diet to solve Chunkun

Chunkun is not terrible, Qinghai Provincial Hospital Senior Nutrition Health Division Hu Yefang that through conditioning diet, can also "drive away" Chunkun.

Food should be light. If you eat too much high-fat foods, the blood and oxygen will be more transferred to the digestive tract, aggravating the burden of the digestive tract, make people feel tired and sleepy. Should eat more fruits and vegetables, such as vegetables, carrots, malan head, celery, cabbage and other food, can effectively alleviate chunkun. The fruit is rich in potassium, which is one of the main minerals that help maintain the water in the cells. The lack of potassium can make people feel weak, but also affect concentration of attention, bananas, apples are rich in potassium.

Increase protein intake. If the appropriate increase of fish, eggs, milk, soy products, liver, chicken, peanuts and other food, help to improve people's energy.

It is advisable to be less sour and more sweet. Chinese Medicine believes that the sour taste for the liver, the spring of the drainage function of the liver, if eating too much sour food, will make the already hyperactive liver-qi too exuberant. According to the five-element principle, liver-flourishing is bound to damage the spleen, resulting in the digestion of the spleen and stomach, absorption and decline, and thus affect health. and gan taste belongs to spleen, taste sweet food can complement spleen. Therefore, the spring can be appropriate to eat some of the jujube, Yam, Medlar, and so on, but also often with the Coix seed, poria, such as boiled porridge drink, not only good digestion, but also to the spleen and stomach qi.

Increase the intake of vitamins. Eat more walnuts, cashew nuts, wheat germ, seaweed, mushrooms, kelp, soybeans, soybeans and other foods rich in vitamins.

Have a good breakfast. Breakfast is a connecting link in the day, the night before dinner to the second day of dinner between 18 hours long, if not eat breakfast, will let the brain in a state of unresponsive, the brain will appear hypoxia symptoms. In particular, the energy in the brain is continuously lowered and the chunkun is exacerbated by the effects of the heat of the food, especially after lunch on the day of the meal.

In addition, you can also drink herbal tea to ease chunkun.

Rose Tea: With blood circulation, soothing liver qi, balance endocrine and other effects, and can beauty, nourishing skin, remove black spots, especially suitable for spring drinking.

Lavender Tea: Lavender tea has a special rich aroma, can purify the mood, relieve pressure, relax nerves, help sleep.

Chrysanthemum tea: With liver, liver, clear liver eyesight effect, especially suitable for spring drinking, can reduce the anger.

Jasmine Tea: Jasmine tea is the Spring tea drink, drink jasmine tea can spleen soothe the nerves, wet and so on.

Mint tea: Drinking mint tea is the most rewarding way to get a pick-me-up. Mint flavor of cool, with sparse wind and heat dissipation, the efficacy of detoxification. But Mint can reduce maternal milk quantity, have certain excitant, unfavorable to lactation, pregnant female and child drink.

Sleeping pills can't be eaten casually.

Miss Zhang has been plagued by insomnia for more than a year, in order to treat insomnia, she took a lot of medicine, spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy all kinds of help sleep medicine, but insomnia is always the same, for this, she felt very distressed.

According to the Qinghai Red Cross Hospital Sleep medicine chief physician Li Lijuan introduced, life, like Ms. Zhang so herself to buy a variety of sleeping pills to take a lot of insomnia, which to the doctor's treatment and standardize the use of medication to bring a lot of difficulties. Need to be reminded that sleeping pills can not be taken at will, and not often take and long-term use, otherwise it will inevitably appear side effects. Sleeping pills including sedative and hypnotic, the central nervous system has different degrees of extensive inhibition, if the dosage is too large can cause acute poisoning of the body, respiratory center inhibition caused by death.

Therefore, the following people should not take sleeping pills: pregnant women avoid taking sleeping pills. Some sleeping pills may make the fetus deformed, may also appear newborn lactation difficulty, jaundice and drowsiness; If taking sleeping pills during lactation, the ingredients of sleeping pills may be transferred to breast milk, causing adverse effects on newborns. Those with heart, liver and kidney disorders. Sleeping pills mainly in the liver transformation, by the kidney ruled out, liver and kidney disease patients should not take sleeping pills; sleep apnea. Sleeping pills can deepen central inhibition, so patients with respiratory obstructive disease or sleep apnea should not take sleeping pills; Because if the drug residue in the daytime, there will be dizziness and walking instability and other side effects, may be older, less vulnerable to the body, acute angle-closure glaucoma and myasthenia gravis patients. These patients have a sharp deterioration in the symptoms of sleeping pills. You shouldn't take sleeping pills after drinking. Alcohol and sleeping pills have the same inhibition of central nervous function, do not use at the same time, lest the central nervous excess inhibition caused injury. Patients with cerebral hemorrhage are forbidden sleeping pills, COPD patients and patients with poor neurological function are cautious to use sleeping pills.

In addition, the expert reminds, the sleeping pill is the prescription medicine, for the insomnia person, should under the doctor's instruction take. If you go to a pharmacy or change your doctor's prescription to increase the dosage, you may have dizziness, drowsiness, decreased attention, memory loss, etc., for liver, kidney, heart disease and sleep apnea, asthma patients, take sleeping pills can also cause greater risk. Therefore, do not eat sleeping pills casually. (Author: Jia Zhongying)

Bad emotional backlog triggers nightmares

Qinghai News Online this year the theme of World Sleep Day is "healthy psychology, Good sleep", sleep and mental health are inextricably linked. According to the director of Neurology Department of Qinghai Red Cross Hospital, psychosomatic disease director Zhang Trifang introduced, 2014 they have a total of 2000 cases of sleep disorders, of which more than 70% of the patients are heart-related insomnia, that is, anxiety, depression, long-term pressure and other emotional problems caused by insomnia, mainly manifested as often nightmares, many dreams, Daydream, easy to wake up.

A lot of people have this feeling, just fall asleep or is about to wake up, will feel like a heavy weight on the body, like waking awake like sleeping, want to shout not out, want to move, eyes how also open, no matter how struggling, how hard to make the body to move up all useless. Some people even have hallucinations, see some phantom. This makes people feel puzzled and horror, and gave this phenomenon a very image, very scary name-"Ghost bed."

The citizen Liu has experienced several times "ghost presses the bed", she said: "That kind of feeling is really terrible, in fear as if oneself will die." It was really hoped that someone next to me would wake up. "Serious time, she will also shout disorderly scream, also always said there is a female ghost bedside." She does not say that she does not sleep well, but also affects the family's sleep. Ms. Liu unknown reason, since this became God, everyone thought she had mental illness.

Qinghai Province, the third People's Hospital psychological Liu in the outpatient department to see Ms. Liu. At that time, Ms. Liu face dark, depressed, a face distressed, tell their own situation when a pair of startled look.

Liu said: "The folk so-called ' ghost presses the bed ' actually the ghost does not exist, in the medicine, this kind of phenomenon is called the nightmare, is one kind of sleep obstacle." It has not much to do with the physical disease, more is related to people's psychological and emotional. ”

The formation of nightmares has to do with the fears that people hold in their hearts. "Many people have emotional problems, will be in the bottom of the heart, especially some fear, worry, for a long time, these things do not vent channels, will be expressed through another form, and ' ghost ' is the subconscious pressure and fear of reflection." "For example, a husband is engaged in some dangerous work, out of fear, when the husband came back late or not back, the wife sometimes nightmares."

and some psychological cues. After chatting with Ms. Liu, Liu quickly found the main reason why Ms Liu often had nightmares. Originally last year, Ms. Liu bought a set of second-hand housing, just start all good, Mrs. Liu a joy to stay, the results later know, before a woman in the house suicide, so Ms. Liu Heart always feel house haunted, so often nightmare.

Bad sleep habits lead to nightmares. For example, watching some scary horror movies before going to bed or hearing some scary stories can induce nightmares. There is also bad sleep posture, such as sleeping hands on the chest, oppression of the heart and lead to nightmares.

"Everyone will encounter nightmares, if occasionally, adjust their emotions, improve their living habits, you can ease." If frequent, it is necessary to pay attention to the professional hospital for psychological treatment. Only having good sleep can reduce the emergence of some mental illness and emotional problems. "Liu said.

Good mood, sleep is healthy

Sleep is people adjust fatigue, ease the mood of time, but many people obviously sleep enough 8 hours, or more time, but after the next day, still feel the spirit of poor, feel more sleep more tired. Director of Neurology Department of Qinghai Red Cross Hospital psychosomatic disease director Zhang Trifang said: "This clearly feel that they sleep well, sleep enough, but still feel very tired of the situation, and people's emotional problems have a great relationship, because the subconscious pressure, anxiety and depression will cause people's sleep rhythm disorder, Did not enter deep sleep. And for this kind of situation people often do not know, still feel oneself sleep exceptionally good. ”

A few days ago, Zhang Trifang had a case.

Patient Ms. Wang is a white-collar, she has been insomnia for a long time, she has no body disease, she felt very good, the only problem is not long ago have been not to work, the reason, just because she and colleagues had a big fight, make very unpleasant. The thought of going to work and meeting that colleague, I don't want to go to work. "In many people's eyes, and colleagues friends quarrel is a very common thing, but for Ms. Liu, it caused her pressure, although she did not feel how important, but the subconscious mood still affects her sleep." She feels good at night, but she doesn't actually get deep sleep, so the next day's spirit will be affected. "Zhang Trifang said.

Zhang Trifang also had a patient, just because of a fall outside, so the subconscious fear caused insomnia.

"A lot of people think that there are only major events or accidents, such as the death of someone at home, children will be the college entrance examination to affect sleep, in fact, a lot of small emotions will also affect, but people do not know that they feel good, the mood is not very bad, should not insomnia, but the fact is not so. "Zhang Trifang said.

Sleep has a close relationship with many mental illnesses, and sleep disorders are the initial manifestation of many mental illnesses, which in turn affect physical health. And the psychological problems, it will further affect people's sleep. "Zhang Trifang said. So, with emotional problems, whether large or small, should be dealt with early, anything to open some, do not because of some small things affect sleep, and then let their own body problems.

It's normal to have four or five dreams every night.

Reader Xu asked: about sleep, one of the things that bothers me most is frequent dreaming, a dream connected with a dream, the dream constantly alternating. Sometimes in the evening after the bathroom, and then sleep can go on before the dream to do, like never end.

Liu Analysis of Psychological Department of the third People's Hospital in Qinghai province: Dreaming is not a bad thing, it is a normal psychological phenomenon. Research abroad shows that dreaming is a process of integrating people's hearts, and can also exercise the brain's ability to think. Generally speaking, as long as is not the horror, the bloody dream, has not too many influence to the person's physical and mental health. But if frequent dreaming, and often do some horror, bloody dreams need to arouse attention, indicating that some repressed emotions are not resolved, there is pressure lingering in the heart.

No matter whether people have memories of their dreams or not, almost everyone has 4 to 5 dreams every night, so many dreams are not necessarily one of the criteria for sleeping disorders. Only frequent nightmares, often awakened by nightmares, can affect sleep quality.

It's not surprising that kids don't sleep

Today, sleep disorders not only affect the health of adults, with the increase in social pressure, sleep disorders have become very common, even teenagers, even infants and children have sleep disorders. "The main causes of sleep disorders among teens are learning stress and family factors, such as inability to sleep before exams, or insomnia due to parental tensions," he said. "Liu, director of the psychology Department of the third People's Hospital in Qinghai province.

Perhaps the teenager has the sleep obstacle, many people can understand, but says the child has the sleep obstacle, many people may not agree, thinks the child understands what, every day except eats is playing, then is sleeps, how can have the sleep obstacle? Liu said: "The main performance of children with sleep disorders is night terrors, nightmares and sleepwalking." ”

Night terrors are a relatively common condition for children with insomnia, a temporary panic symptom that occurs when a child is in sleep. For example, when a child falls asleep, he suddenly sits up screaming, crying, staring or closing his eyes, and his face is very frightened and disturbed.

"Children have sleep disorders, in addition to the possible cause of physical illness, psychological problems are the main causes of children's insomnia." "Liu said. In fact, the child's ability to perceive in the mother's belly will have, parents do not feel that children are small, do not know what to ignore the child's feelings.

"Children suffer from insomnia, with the establishment of attachment relationships between children and mothers, especially before the age of 3." The age of 0 to 6 years is the key period to establish attachment relationship, parents must give the child enough security, to eliminate the lack of security and the children caused by insomnia. "Liu said. In addition, the child has a sleep disorder, with the child's psychological and social factors, such as family disharmony, sudden and separated parents, family accidents, parents or teachers severely blame and punishment, before bedtime to hear the story of tension and excitement or watch the horror of television. Parents want their children to be healthy, they should pay more attention to their children's sleep problems, especially in the age of 0 to 3 years old brain development critical period.

Parents ' bad upbringing also has an effect on their children's sleep. such as holding a child to sleep after the child and then put on the bed, sleeping with the child, or did not create a comfortable, quiet sleep environment for children. (Author: Wang Xinmei)