Old people's metabolism slows down, energy consumption is less, general sleep time is less, 5-6 hours of sleep per day is enough. There is a short sleep time at night for the elderly, but they can make up for the lack of sleep by taking advantage of daytime sleep, which can not be regarded as insomnia. In addition, it's not insomnia if you can't sleep once or twice. Real insomnia is a disease, patients often lie in bed for several hours still can not sleep, and affect the next day's normal life, during the day there are often dizziness, head swelling, mental malaise.
When losing sleep, it's better not to rush to hypnosis with drugs. We should first find out the causes of insomnia and try to eliminate them. The most common reasons are:
1. Body factor, which is insomnia caused by bad stimulation of various diseases, should be treated according to the cause;
2. Environmental factors, such as changes in sleep environment and sleep habits;
3. Psychological factors, emotional changes, mental over tension, etc;
4. Change of sleep rhythm and time.
In order to avoid insomnia, don't drink strong tea or smoke after supper. Don't drink too much water before going to bed. Don't be too full for dinner. Avoid mental tension and strenuous exercise before going to bed. Every day fixed sleep time, an hour before going to bed appropriate exercise, and then soak feet with warm water is conducive to sleep. If you find that you haven't slept for half an hour, just sit up and massage your ears and feet.
For insomnia of the elderly, drugs such as lumina (phenobarbital sodium) and amital should not be used. Because these drugs can cause dizziness, gait instability, easy to fall, but also can produce similar arteriosclerotic dementia and mental disorders, especially in patients with pulmonary encephalopathy. If you want to use fast sleeping, you must start with small dosage first, and you must be careful when you fall in the middle of the night. Relatively speaking, diazepam drugs should be more safe. Diazepam, nitrodiazepam and sullain can be selected. There are many varieties of diazepam. We should start using them in small doses and replace them after a period of time to slow down the emergence of drug resistance. In addition, some Chinese patent medicines also have certain effects, which can be selected as appropriate.
In addition, for those who do not sleep deeply, have many dreams and are easy to wake up, long-term hypnotics should be selected, such as diazepam, sleepytone, chloral hydrate, etc. for those who sleep well but have difficulty in falling asleep, hypnotics with fast effects can be selected, such as fast asleep, Hypnone, etc.