Most elderly people complain of frequent waking up at night, shortening sleep duration, daytime sleepiness, and the need to sleep after dinner. Why is this happening? The fact is that as they grow older and older, the quality and architecture of…
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Almost all drugs act on sleep, either worsening it at night, or causing drowsiness during the day. It is important, together with your doctor, to choose the right time for taking certain dosages and dosages of the medications you are…
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A similar disorder is restless legs syndrome. In this case, people complain of unpleasant, sometimes obscure feelings of discomfort, tingling, “crawling goose bumps” in the legs, which resulted in an overwhelming desire to move them. Such sensations are called dysesthesia . More often they appear…
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Insomnia due to periodic limb movements in sleep occurs because the hands, and most often the legs, involuntarily twitch or shudder every 20-40 seconds. Movement usually lasts from 0.5 to 5 seconds. They often occur in the thumb, ankle, knee, less often…
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The deterioration of the nasal passages of different origin. Secondary factors are : – Obesity. – Alcohol consumption. Tobacco smoking. – Low lung capacity. – The use of a number of drugs, in particular, hypnotics and tranquilizers. Respiratory disorders in a dream are sometimes treated with…
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The most common symptoms that lead a person to a doctor are sleepiness during the day, anxious sleep at night and snoring. Sometimes it turns out that excessive sleepiness during the day is associated with insomnia due to frequent nighttime awakenings,…
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As a rule, by the age of three years, enuresis occurs in only 25% of children. Already by 6 years old urination in small children passes. Night enuresis is the inability to prevent urination during a night’s sleep due to a…
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As a rule, they appear during sleep in the first third of the night and are not remembered (as opposed to nightmares). They are observed in 1-6% of children and in 1% of adults. During the night of fear the child usually…
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Parents are concerned that some children behave peculiarly at any time of the night. They begin to “butt” head cushions or headboard. Sometimes, relying on their hands, children rhythmically swing back and forth, instead of sleeping at night. These phenomena are common in…
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Parents are often worried about poor sleep in children. Bringing them to a neurologist’s appointment, they tell in detail about a wide variety of sleep disorders that cause them concern or even frighten. But not all sleep disorders in children are manifestations…
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