Insomnia and Sleeplessness

November 30, 2006

Weekend sleep-creates more fatigue

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Most working class people often built up a sleep debt during the week and tried to catch u on the weekend, leading to the type of lethargy experienced when adjusting to daylight savings. Therefore, sleeping in on weekend can get the working week off to a bad start.

According to a research conducted by Professor Leon Lack, psychologist of Flinders University of Adelaide, “The feelings of sleepiness and fatigue the next couple of days were significant in comparison with people who maintained their regular wakeup times on Saturday and Sunday mornings.”

Delayed waking was associated with a 42-minute delay in dim light melatonin onset and an eight-minute increase in time to fall asleep compared to keeping habitual wake-up times. This is because sleeping in on the weekend people delay the body clock by about 45 minutes. It is recommended only sleeping in for half and hour on weekends.

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November 28, 2006

Stop worrying about overdose in nicotine replacement therapy

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Smokers usually find it hard to quit smoking. When they try to give up smoking, they often have the craving, anxiety, distress, aggression, disturbed sleep and even depression.

Nicotine replacement therapy in the forms of nicotine patches, chewing gum and inhalers are available for the purpose of smoking cessation. However, how much is the safety maximum amount of nicotine in our body?
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Nocturnal enuresis, also occurs in adolescents/adults

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Bedwetting causes fatigue, disruption to family sleep, stressful event and fear of underlying pathology for parents and adult sufferers.

Nocturnal enuresis impacts the daily life of 61% of children. 1.5% of 13-year-olds and adolescents rate nocturnal enuresis as significant event in their life. This can persist into adulthood, with 0.5% of adults with nocturnal enuresis, which can be associated with a high incidence of depression, lower self-esteem and sleep disturbances.
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November 22, 2006

Better options to prevent unplanned pregnancies

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How many sleepless nights do you have worrying about you might be pregnant? A survey in Scotland involving nearly 4000 women found high rates of unplanned pregnancies, even among women who decided to go ahead and have baby. Other study in Edinburgh hospital involved 2900 women found that only 65% of these women had intended to become pregnant. Interestingly, only 1% of all the women had used emergency contraception (oral levonorgestrel). On a study with 900 women attending for abortion, 9 out of 10 of these pregnancies were unintended, yet only 12% of the women had used emergency contraception.
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