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Morbidity and mortality of sleep deprivation

With so many people suffering from insomnia or a specific sleep disorder, there is a lot of concern on whether or not sleep deprivation can be fatal or cause morbidity. Although loosing sleep over a period of time is not healthy, you have a long way to go before this would lead to death.

Morbidity on the other hand can come quickly, if you choose to dwell on your situation too much without trying to help yourself. The worst thing you can do is to fall into a state of depression. This will only add to your problem because now, you have two issues to treat instead of one.

Plus sleep deprivation in not really a sleep disorder it is the effect of something external, like noise keeping you awake. So if you can eliminate the external issue then you solve your sleeping problem. If however this is not the case, then you are experiencing insomnia, or a disorder.

As far as your mortality being in jeopardy it would take a long period of loosing sleep before you would need to start worrying about that. There would be several signs of your health degrading before you would consider your situation life threatening.

After awhile you will start to get run down from lack of sleep, this can lead to a weaker immune system. Once that happens, you are inviting illness and possibly diseases to take hold in your body.

So you need to solve your problem before it ever gets that far. There are lots of reasons why people have insomnia, age, diet, stress, and others, but no matter the reason, your sleep cycle gets interupted, and you have to fix that quickly.

Whatever the reason was that caused you to start loosing sleep, has taken a back to seat, and your own mind starts to take over, and your thoughts become your worst eneny. You dwell on the fact that you can’t sleep, and your mind starts racing at bedtime keeping you awake for another night.

It is important that you get back into a natural sleep cycle. Always start with your doctor so he can diagnose the problem. He may want to give you sleeping medication, if this gets you back sleep quickly, and you can continue sleeping without it after no more than two weeks, then your problem is solved.

However, if you are still not sleeping after getting off the medication, then you want to look into other alternatives. You don’t want to be taking medication for month’s even years to help you sleep. You don’t know what the side effects could be, and the fear of addiction is something to keep in mind.

There are lots of natural ways to get back into your sleep cycle. Changing your diet, starting an exercise program like yoga, or walking, or meditation. Vitamins are something else you might consider, your doctor can tell if you have some deficiencies, and if this could be the cause of your issue.

Your body produces melatonin naturally, but as you grow older, you might not be producing as much as your body needs. This is something you can buy over the counter in the vitamin isle at your local pharmacy. The use of melatonin can get you back to your natural sleep cycle, and can have beneficial effects for treatment of certain insomnias. The key is to go natural if possible and stay away from drugs.

We hope this information was helpful. Check our other articles for more information on sleep issues.

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