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Hypersomnia is the presence of excessive sleepiness for at least a month. This results in prolonged sleep episodes or by the ease excessive sleeping during the day.

This situation can not be explained by the presence of insomnia and not exclusively during the course of another condition, or can be attributed to sleep deprivation. Yes it can be, however, due to a disease that already has the patient or taking drugs. Respiratory diseases, endocrine-metabolic, renal, liver, sleep (eg narcolepsy), infections and feverish conditions result hypersomnia. It is also possible that hypersomnia accompanying pictures of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

To end hypersomnia must treat the disease that causes or withdraw the drugs can produce. Lately have appeared effective medications for the control of hypersomnia. Read the rest of this entry »

Do not suffer from sleep disorders and sleep better are the targets of an increasing number of people, especially in a modern era where the use of everyone’s time is often overloaded. Nowadays, professional life and personal life are conducted mostly at a frantic speed, with objective stressors, and may cause sleep problems among many of us. Fortunately, there are solutions to food sleep, to sleep better.

What is the impact of sleep disorders in France?
Various surveys and studies estimate that more than 10 million French people suffer from sleep disorders (insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness, parasomnia, Dyssomnia, sleep apnea syndromes, etc..). The French consume more than 60 million boxes of sleeping pills annually.

Furthermore, sleep disturbances are for the governments of most industrialized countries (the most affected by these problems) a public health priority. Among the adverse consequences of sleep disorders, there is weight gain (in addition to mood disorders, lack of energy, a lack of productivity, etc..).

What are sleep disorders most frequently?
Sleep problems most frequently encountered are:

* Insomnia: sleep deprivation caused inter alia by an illness, grief, anxiety, overwork, etc..
* Excessive daytime sleepiness: involuntary sleepiness during the day, more or less controllable (you must then struggle to resist the urge to sleep)
* Parasomnia: all events accompanying sleep, which may be pathological as physiological (confusional arousal, sleepwalking, night terrors, sleep paralysis with hallucinations, nightmares, etc..)
* Dyssomnia: alteration of the quantity and quality of sleep (insomnia, excessive sleep, circadian rhythm disorders),
* Apnea syndromes: pathology causing decreases sleep (known as hypopnea) or stops the flow of breathing (apnea). These syndromes affect approximately half of those suffering from hypertension and the majority of obese people.