Health tips: how to deal with insomnia in the elderly? Does insomnia have an impact on health? Many people do not know that the sleep problems of the elderly are closely related to our health, which reflects various health problems in their sleep. So how should the elderly sleep to have a healthy body?
1、 We don't eat two hours before we go to bed. This will only make the food in our body accumulate, which forms fat and is easy to get fat.
When we sleep, our intestines and stomach have entered a dormant state, and the food we eat before going to sleep will only accumulate in our intestines and stomach, which are the main causes of gastrointestinal diseases.
2、 We should also avoid chatting with others before we go to sleep, because chatting can stimulate our positive emotions, and our thinking is also active. During the time of waiting for sleep with our eyes closed, we are in a state of excitement. So it's hard for all of us to fall asleep.
3、 Before going to sleep, we should not use our brain too much. We should do all kinds of things before going to sleep. Also don't think about the complicated and difficult things together during sleep time.
4、 Avoid the mood of great joy and great sorrow, and go to sleep with a relaxed attitude.
5、 Before going to bed, we should not drink strong tea or coffee. These drinks are stimulant drinks. Excessive drinking can easily cause difficulty in falling asleep.
6、 We've all heard of 'disease comes from the mouth'. We should not keep our mouth open when we fall asleep, because many germs are introduced into the body through the mouth, causing many kinds of diseases.
7、 Many old people have a habit of sleeping with their heads covered, which will lead to the inhalation of the oxygen dioxide pool we exhale. Thus the lack of oxygen breathing, which is extremely detrimental to our deep meaning.
8、 Avoid sleeping on your back, and it's best to lie on your right side, so that your bones and muscles are naturally relaxed, easy to fall asleep, and easy to eliminate fatigue. Supine makes the whole body bones and muscles still in a state of tension, which is not conducive to eliminating fatigue, but also easy to cause nightmares due to hand chest, affecting the quality of sleep.
9、 We'd better turn off all the lights when we sleep. Although people close their eyes when they sleep, they can still feel the lights. It's a disadvantage for people who are neurologically vulnerable.
10、 For those cool elderly people, we should remind you not to fall asleep in the tuyere when you sleep, so it is easy to get wind cold.
If the symptoms of insomnia in the elderly are serious and still not improved after some adjustment, they should take hypnotic drugs appropriately to help restore normal sleep like doctors. However, due to the deterioration of the physiological functions of the elderly, medication must comply with the doctor's advice, and drug abuse is not allowed, in order to prevent other diseases of the elderly caused by improper medication.
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