Zhengzhou Insomnia: Diagnosis and Treatment of Sleep Disorders

Diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders:

Sleep disorders can be caused by a variety of reasons, including underlying physical diseases, insufficient sleep time and depth of sleep, circadian sleep rhythm disorders, and poor physical recovery. Most adults today suffer from sleep insufficiency, and the world, especially China, is a high-risk population. It can occur in pregnant and postpartum women, young people in the workplace, middle-aged and elderly patients, etc., but the proportion of medical consultation and treatment is indeed low.

Mild insomnia has little impact on quality of life, moderate insomnia can affect quality of life, accompanied by mild anxiety, depression, fatigue, emotional instability, severe insomnia can seriously affect quality of life, accompanied by obvious anxiety , Tension, fatigue, irritability, etc.

Clinical assessment and diagnosis of insomnia:

First of all, it is necessary to understand whether the patient has the potential factors causing insomnia, including life stress events, mental stress, whether there is a mood disorder, emotional anxiety, and memory function decline. negative impact.

Insomnia is the only clinical symptom, including difficulty in falling asleep, shallow sleep, dreaminess, easy to wake up, difficulty falling back to sleep after waking up, fatigue, decreased energy, decreased interest, excessive worry about the consequences of insomnia, and worries accompanied by distress. Generally, it occurs at least 3 times a week and lasts for more than one month, which can be used for the diagnosis of insomnia.

Therapeutic principles: Firstly, help patients to establish healthy sleep habits, especially acute insomnia patients should be treated early, and it is very important to improve the quality of life of patients and the recovery of social functions.

Treatment goals: improve sleep effect, alleviate insomnia symptoms, shorten sleep latency as much as possible, induce sleep rapidly, reduce night awakening times, and prolong total sleep time. Reduce or eliminate the risk of physical diseases related to insomnia, and provide appropriate counseling on sleep health knowledge.

Nearly one-third of insomnia patients are chronic insomniacs, and they need long-term treatment. If insomnia is indeed insomnia, different drug treatments should be selected. Try to avoid the negative effects brought by the drug treatment process, do not affect memory function, have no residual effect, no dependence, and no withdrawal effect.