Transcript sleep disorders ppt

Sleep Disorders
START WITH CHROME/INTERNET RESEARCH
SKIT (COMMON DISORDERS LIST)
RECAP: NOTES (ADD TO)
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
Sleep Apnea
 Treatment
 -Mouthpieces
 -breathing devices
 -surgery
 -nicotine patch/gum, e-cigarette
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
Insomnia
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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
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
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
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-avoid caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, heavy metals
 Medical Treatment: prescription medication
Falling asleep at the wheel (car accidents)
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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
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Shift Work
 When you have trouble sleeping because you might be
working all night, and then unable to sleep during the
day
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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
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
Bruxism
 When you grind your teeth in the night
 Problems:
 Wake you up from pain in your jaw
 Headaches
 Grinds down your teeth
 Treatment
 Mouthguard/retainer
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)
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