Archive for June, 2008

Teenagers who use their cell phone excessively are more prone to disrupted sleep, restlessness, stress and fatigue, according to a research.

According to the study conducted on two groups, young people with excessive use of cell phones (both talking and text messaging) have increased restlessness with more careless lifestyles, more consumption of stimulating beverages, difficulty in falling asleep, disrupted sleep, and more susceptibility to stress and fatigue when compared to the group with restricted use of cell phones.

“Addiction to cell phone is becoming common. Youngsters feel a group pressure to remain inter-connected and reachable round the clock. Children start to use mobile phones at an early stage of their life. There seem to be a connection between intensive use of cell phones and health compromising behavior such as smoking, snuffing and use of alcohol,” said Dr. Badre.

“It is necessary to increase the awareness among youngsters of the negative effects of excessive mobile phone use on their sleep-wake patterns, with serious health risks as well as attention and cognitive problems,” said Dr. Badre.

It is recommended that adolescents get nine hours of nightly sleep.

Source: ScienceDaily

If you choose alcohol as your sleep aid, then it is very essential for you to realize that alcoholism, which is used as source to get good sleep, can lead to certain sleep disorders.

Therefore, in order to understand how these two things are interrelated to each other, you must look into the depths of these two different topics, alcohol and sleep.

Alcoholism and sleep!

Alcoholism is an illness in which you can become addicted to excessive alcohol consumption. Identical to consciousness, sleep is an active process that is controlled by your nerve centers in brain stem. These nerve centers usually produce certain chemicals that controls the regulation of REM (rapid eye moment) state of your sleep, where your eyes move more rapidly.

So, whenever you consume excess amounts of alcohol, the functioning of these chemical messengers mainly affects your sleep and causes various sleep disorders.

Sleep disorders related to alcoholism!

If you are already suffering with any kind of sleep disorders, particularly sleep apnea, then extreme consumption of alcohol can certainly make the condition much worse. It is believed that excessive alcohol consumption in addition to sleep apnea can certainly kill the person.

GPs can now offer a melatonin on prescription to treat older adult patients diagnosed with primary insomnia.Primary insomnia disrupts daily life, resulting in clinically significant distress and impairment of social, occupational and daily functioning.

Circadin, the first pharmaceutical grade licensed melatonin, is a prolonged-release formulation of synthesized melatonin that is released over several hours, in order to provide the body with melatonin at an adequate physiological level during the normal hours of resting.

The key to managing primary insomnia is to restore the quality of sleep, rather than the quantity of sleep. Changes occur in the full sleep cycle with age and part of this could be due to a correlation between increasing age and declining levels of melatonin.

Treatment with Circadin may replenish that deficiency and restore the normal sleep cycle for restful, restorative sleep and normal next-day functioning.

Treatment with Circadin has been shown to significantly improve quality of sleep (QOS) and behavior following wakening (BFW), also referred to as next day-functioning, and both contribute to improved quality of life.

Circadin is effective within three weeks of dosing, and helps to induce and maintain sleep.
Source: Medical News Today

Exercise is essential for each and everyone of you to make your body fit.

Not only the physical health, even your mental health will also improve a lot by practicing exercises regularly for certain period of time i.e. for 30 minutes to 90 minutes.

The recent studies say that sleep is as essential as the exercise, which is responsible for physical fitness.

Practicing exercises is not useful if the person is not able to sleep for required time even though he practices exercises regularly [Exercise for good night sleep].

Exercise makes the body fit by burning the extra fats and calories stored in it. In the similar way, sleep is also necessary for the person to attain rest for all parts of the body, including brain. Both physical and mental health of the person will be disturbed if he is not able to attain proper sleep required for him at night times.

You have to maintain sleep and practice exercises equally if you like to stay fit and fine. Exercise is the physical workout where as sleep is mental workout. Physical workout is essential to make your body fit where as the mental workout is essential to make your mind active. Both the things are essential for the body and imbalance of these two things will certainly lead to health problems.