It is believed that with age a person begins to experience need for longer sleep.
Is it really? And where does chronic lack of sleep occur in young people?
Sleep rate
Healthy sleep - a guarantee of productivity. Scientists recommend sleeping at least 8 hours a day.
If this recommendation is ignored, weakness, dizziness and headache, lethargy and problems with concentration can occur in the morning.
But the symptoms listed above sometimes even appear on a regular basis even among those who are serious about recreation, goes to bed early and sleeps more than eight hours.
At the same time, the desire to take a nap persistently pursues a person, making it difficult to perform current tasks and enjoy life.
Why does a person sleep a lot?
If a person sleeps a lot: what does this mean? The reasons may be different.
Elderly
Why do old people, grandmothers constantly sleep?
Physiologists believe that sleep for 7-9 hours is the norm for an elderly person. Over 10 hours of rest can be considered as a deviation from the norm, indicating the development of any diseases.
But there is another important point. Old age is a natural condition that inevitably affects the body and the processes occurring in it. With age, changing sleep patterns.
So young people quickly fall asleep, stay longer in the phase of deep sleep and do not wake up in response to external stimuli (noise, conversations, changes in temperature, etc.).
BUT the elderly fall asleep twice as longsensitively react to extraneous sounds and often wake up.
Those. The actual sleep time is the same for young people as it is for old people. But aged people have difficulty organizing their holidays.
In old age, people decrease the sensitivity of receptors, appetite disappears. Inadequate nutrition leads to loss of strength and drowsiness.
Changes in hormonal levels also adversely affect the state, causing weakness, irritability and a general decrease in body tone.
Fatigue also occurs due to failure of exchange processes. So because of the weakness of the lungs, the deterioration of the mobility of the diaphragm and the thoracic region, oxygen starvation occurs.
And even if the general condition of an elderly person can be regarded as good or normal, age-related changes still occur in the body.
Young
If you do not consider the option of having pathologies, prolonged sleep may be due to:
- Physical or mental exhaustion. Hard work, constant stress, prolonged stay “on the feet” or on the road, serious intellectual stress, poor nutrition and other factors that depress the body, affect the duration of sleep. After all, the body in case of exhaustion requires more time to recover.
- Failure to sleep. For some, daytime sleep is optimal, and someone feels good only if you go to bed early. "Larks" prefer to get up at dawn, and "owls" with a similar schedule will feel overwhelmed.
- Seasonal phenomena. Do not underestimate the impact of external factors, climate, weather and seasonal phenomena.
It has long been proven that the human body reacts sensitively to any "whims" of nature.
- Depression. Depression is associated with stress and exhaustion of the nervous system. But, unlike mild stress, depression causes serious damage to the body and requires long-term recovery. Here you can add apathy, indifference to life and other moments, because of which there is a desire to detach from reality through sleep.
- Lack of vitamins. With vitamin deficiency, the body has nowhere to draw resources for recovery. Therefore, sleep does not bring the desired vigor, activity and emotional recovery.
- Prolonged lack of sleep. A good example is students. During the preparatory period for the session, they hardly sleep and exhaust individual resources. After that, a few nights of full sleep is not enough and the body constantly requires rest.
Child
Usually, children are full of energy and not burdened with worries, therefore, to sleep they need less time than adults.
But if the baby spends too much time in the kingdom of Morpheus, the reason should be sought in an improperly organized mode.
So:
- Nutrition. The child eats a lot, but at the same time most of his diet consists of "harmful" foods like sweets, chips, soda, etc.? So the baby, even under the condition of abundant nutrition, does not receive enough nutrients and vitamins, and therefore quickly gets tired and wants to sleep.
- Emotional stress. If the child is constantly in a state of stress, is experiencing or can not make contact with peers, the nervous system is depleted. It takes a long time to restore it.
- Hyperactivity Too active kids can not sit without a case. They run, jump, dance, play and constantly find something to do. Continuous activity depletes the strength that during sleep will have to recover longer than usual.
What to do?
Why did I sleep a lot? What is the problem? What could it be? If earlier a person adhered to the regime and got enough sleep, but with time he began to sleep longer and at the same time feel worse Do not ignore the situation.
A set of targeted measures will help prevent health problems and avoid complications:
- Optimization mode. It is necessary to adjust the level of activity to suit individual needs.
People who work in the office, move a little and avoid outdoor activities, you need to introduce sport into your life.
And for those who absolutely do not rest during the day and are engaged in physical labor, it is better to revise the schedule, change jobs or, if possible, abandon certain types of workload. You will also have to adjust the diet, abandoning harmful products in favor of healthy food. And of course you should not forget about vitamins (especially during the autumn and spring periods).
- Walks in the open air. Residents of megacities spend most of their lives indoors, thus provoking oxygen starvation. It takes 30-40 minutes to walk in the “green zone” to ensure the body to go go.
- Work with stress. The method must be selected individually. This may be a visit to a psychologist, taking sedatives, meditation, yoga, etc. The most important thing is to get rid of the increased level of anxiety, irritability and related experiences.
- Full examination in the hospital. General examination and consultation with narrow specialists will prevent development of any pathologies at an early stage, if the cause of drowsiness is the disease.
Hypersomnia
A man sleeps all the time: what kind of disease?
If a person sleeps more than 14 hours a day, it is appropriate to talk about such a disease as hypersomnia.
Depending on the root causes, forms and features of the development of pathology symptoms may be different:
- sleep duration more than ten hours a day;
- difficult awakening;
- problems with adapting to the operating mode;
- constant drowsiness during wakefulness;
- lack of muscle tone;
- general weakness of the body.
Hypersomnia is due to serious disorders or diseases organism, such as cancer, encephalitis, brain contusions, microstrokes, etc.
In rare cases, idiopathic hypersomnia is diagnosed, which is not tied to specific pathologies and is a form of neurological disorder.
How to stop a lot of sleep?
To determine the exact cause of excessive sleepiness can only through clinical examinations.
And the only effective method of dealing with hypersomnia is root cause treatment.
But if the situation is not critical and the person is healthy, heighten the overall tone and avoid quick fatigue will help simple measures:
- rejection of too fatty, spicy and sweet foods;
- rejection of bad habits (smoking and alcohol);
- the introduction of a mandatory course of vitamins in the spring and autumn;
- daily walks;
- regular physical activity (two or three times a week you need to practice a comfortable sport for you);
- limiting the sources of negative information in life;
Bad news, communication with people dissatisfied with life, and even daily contemplation of an ugly landscape provoke an accumulation of negative emotions and stresses.
- the organization of the regime (go to bed, like waking up, you need every day at one time);
- expanding the range of interests and active communication with interesting people (apathy and boredom lead to the fact that a person wants to “escape” from the real world by immersing in sleep).
Do not worry if for sleepiness there are objective reasonssuch as a busy schedule, exciting events or a high level of physical activity.
You just need to adjust the mode, allocating time for proper rest.
But if the increase in the duration of night sleep doesn't have any prerequisites Ignore the situation can not.
A doctor's consultation and clinical analyzes will allow to reveal an accurate picture of the state of health and prevent the development of pathologies.
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