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Sleep Disorders
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Skit (Common disorders list)
Recap: Notes (add to)

2. Sleep Apnea
When airways are blocked, so air cannot get to your lungs (this wakes you up because you cannot breathe)
Types: central obstructive, complex, mixed
Affects adults and children
Daytime sleepiness, loud snoring, choking or gasping during sleep, headaches, memory loss, poor concentration
May be worsened by regular smoking and/or alcohol use

3. Sleep Apnea Treatment -Mouthpieces -breathing devices -surgery
-nicotine patch/gum, e-cigarette

4. Insomnia Chronic (happens regularly) Temporary
Sometimes goes hand in hand with depression (low serotonin levels at night, tired, so unhappy during the day, can’t sleep…vicious cycle)
When you have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep

5. Insomnia Avoid screen time before bed (read a book)
Get tired during the day (exercise!)
Sleeping pills
Warm milk
Bath
Massage/rub your back
Calming music
Yoga
White noise/smell machine (saje)
Sleep mask/warm blankets (swaddling babies)
Routine/regular sleep times

6. Restless Leg
Sometimes caused by diabetes or too much caffeine, or poor nutrition (low amount of vitamins)
Itchy/pain in the legs and arms usually, or whole body
Treatment
Eat healthy/exercise/relaxation techniques
Heat, or cold massage
Preparing a good sleep environment
Scheduled sleep
Drink lots of water/take vitamins
medication

7. Narcolepsy
Neurological disorder that affects the control of one’s sleep
Often people will fall asleep when they do not mean to
Excessive daytime sleepiness, sudden loss of muscle tone/weakness, hallucinations, sleep paralysis
Prevention:
-avoid caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, heavy metals
Medical Treatment: prescription medication

8. Falling asleep at the wheel (car accidents)
Prevention:
-caffeine (energy drinks, chocolate, coffee)
-radio/music (loud/noisy, not soft/relaxing, sing along)
-vehicle modifications (vibrating steering wheel and seat when crossing lines on the road)
-bumps in the road/rumble strips
-roll down the windows (cool wind blowing)
-turn on the a/c
-avoid alcohol use
-get a good night’s rest before traveling
-pull over at a rest stop and have a nap
-have a person to talk to/conversation
-switch driver
-eat sunflower seeds/peanuts…snacks

9. Shift Work
When you have trouble sleeping because you might be working all night, and then unable to sleep during the day
Symptoms:
Excessive sleepiness when you need to be awake, alert and productive
Insomnia (inability to sleep when you need to)
Sleep that feels un-refreshing or insufficient
Difficulty concentrating
Lack of energy
Irritability or depression
Difficulty with personal relationships

10. Shift work
May affect families (holidays, picking up from school, family time, trying to be quiet)
Common for firefighters, nurses, janitorial, convenience stores, restaurants
Treatment
Sleeping pills
Asking for better working hours/trading with others
(different employment)
Dark windows/sleep masks/ear plugs

11. Bruxism When you grind your teeth in the night Problems: Treatment
Wake you up from pain in your jaw
Headaches
Grinds down your teeth
Treatment
Mouthguard/retainer

12. Too much sugar/Poor diet
Makes you jittery “sugar crash”
Difficulty sleeping as brain is over-stimulated (caffeine in chocolate)
Stomach aches, crazy dreams
Cravings (waking up at night to eat because you are still hungry, disrupts sleep)

13. Jet Lag Travel to different timezones
Difficulty adjusting to new time of day
Temporary sleep disorder, but still difficult
(May take 6-9 days to fully recover depending on how many time zones you cross)
Symptoms similar to shift work