Sleep Disorders Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

Sleeping is most important function in our life, but sometime most of us facing problem in sleeping, awake in the middle and fatigued during the day. Sleep disorder is a medical disorder of the sleep causes other sleeping problem or more than just sleepiness. It’s very difficult to stay asleep through the night. Poor sleeping problem may cause negative impact on your health, energy, emotional balance or productivity or sometime repeated sleeping problem may cause metal problem or serious problem. If you have problem sleeping at night or wake up, then you feel very tired. Most common sleep disorder is sleep apnea or chronic insomnia.

Causes of Sleep Disorder: There are various causes of sleep disorder like excessive weight due to aging loss of muscle tone, due to disturbance in the normal circadian pattern. Other causes are:

• Due to life stresses such as death of loved one, job loss or change or extreme temperatures.
• Many medicines can affect your sleep.
• Over the age of 65 any one can face sleep disorder.
• Working with night shift
• Some common disease increases the risk of sleep disorder depression, anxiety disorder or asthma.
• Life style factor such as alcoholism, caffeine can cause sleep problem

Differential Diagnosis: Sleep disorder may cause major health problem which can be life threatening. Increase the risk of several diseases:
• Heart failure
• Heart attack
• Blood pressure
• Stroke
• Diabetes
• Depression
• Sudden death

Symptoms of sleep disorder: Everyone has experience of sleep problem, some common sign and symptoms of sleep disorder.
• Feel very sleepy during the day
• Irritability
• Can't concentrate on your work
• Long pauses in breathing
• Morning headaches
• Have trouble controlling your emotions
• Changes in mood, including depression

Precautions: Some precautions help to reduce the risk:
• Eliminate caffeine
• Avoid exercise after dinner
• Make sure your bedroom temperature
• Never drive car after sleeping

Treatment of Sleep Disorder: The treatment of sleep disorder is depending on the causes. Immediate consult your doctor to find the exact causes and continue your treatment. A physician or doctor may refer to you a sleep center or treat with some therapy or surgeries. Hence immediate consultation of an expert physician is essential to find the exact cause behind sleep disorder.

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