Strange Facts About Insomnia

Strange Facts About Insomnia

Insomnia or difficulty sleeping conditions at night does not happen to everyone. But these disorders are more and more experience.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) said that the actual insomnia, the symptoms appear for at least a month and did not occur with other sleep disorders, mental disorders, medical conditions or use of certain drugs.


Loss of sleep has negative effects on health. A review of the University of Rochester in 2010 found that people who are constantly sleep deprived are more likely to have traffic accidents, missed work days, less satisfied with their jobs and are more easily distracted by the surrounding environment.
Listen to 7 weird facts that help explain why people can not sleep as reported from MyHealthNewsDaily, Wednesday (13/6/2012) below.
A. Insomnia Could Only Derivatives
Sleep problems can occur in one family. A 2008 study found that adolescents whose parents are also at high risk of suffering from insomnia using sleep medications as prescribed and have a mental problem.
2. Pets and Insect Can Also Suffer from Insomnia
Other animals such as insects can not complain just now experiencing insomnia, but some studies suggest animals also suffer from sleep disorders such as humans.
Flies that insomnia was more frequent loss of balance, slower to learn and have more fat, they resemble symptoms of sleep deprivation in humans.
3. Jet Lag Causes of Insomnia Can Be Social
If you have trouble waking up in the Monday morning, you may experience a 'social jet lag' is a habit to follow the sleep schedule on weekdays and weekends are different from people in general.
A recent study showed that people with sleep schedule on weekdays and weekends are different three times more likely to be overweight.
4. Although still sleeping pills failed Popular Cure Insomnia
In a study published in the journal BMJ Open, researchers found that people taking prescription sleeping pills nearly five times more likely to die in the study over 2.5 years than those who do not take sleeping pills.
5. Only Women's Hormones Can Cause Insomnia
Women are twice as likely to suffer from insomnia than men. This was revealed by the National Sleep Foundation.
Do not sleep at night and sleepy during the day is often associated with hormonal changes in women's lives, including pregnancy, menopause and menstrual cycle.
But along with hormonal changes, insomnia is also associated with conditions such as anxiety, depression, breathing problems during sleep and restless legs syndrome.
6. Although rare, Also Can Someone dies of Insomnia
Fatal familial insomnia is a rare genetic disease that prevents a person from falling asleep because it could eventually lead to death.
The experts have identified as fatal familial insomnia is a prion disease caused by abnormal proteins that evolved from a genetic mutation that affects brain function, causing memory loss, unable to control muscle movements and hallucinations.
In 1986, researchers reported the case of a 53-year-old man who suffered from lack of sleep and only get 2-3 hours sleep per night in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Two months later, he could only sleep one hour per night and are often disturbed by vivid dreams. After 3-6 months, he was totally unable to sleep normally, so she had severe fatigue, body tremors and difficulty breathing. After 8 months, he fell and died.
After investigation of the man's family history reveals that the two sisters and many other family members also died of similar disease.