Sleep-related disorders

One-third of our life goes by in sleep. Nevertheless, the only evaluations of this area were related to dreams and night symptoms of physical diseases. Fortunately, there is a sleep fellowship among the specialized medical fields, which specifically evaluates disorders and diseases caused during, before or after sleep.

In this specialty, which is taught after passing the specialized courses of neurology, lung, ear and throat, or work medicine, and physicians specifically examine patients with sleep-related disorders for more than a year. One of the features of this diseases is lack of awareness of patients, and only their spouse knew about the disease. For instance, kicking, restlessness during sleep, sleepwalking, unnatural eating and snoring are symptoms reported by the spouse of individuals.

If you have a sound sleep and no one complains about you, you will most likely need no referral to sleep specialist or sleep clinic.

However, if you or one of your closest relatives have these symptoms, you can consult with a sleep specialist.

Insomnia in the form of several awaking during night or early in the morning and lack of ability to go back to sleep

Hand and foot movements during sleep, which disturbs your spouse.

Sleepwalking or involuntary eating during sleep

Muscle cramps during sleep

Hypersomnia

Work-shift disorders

Irregular sleep hours, especially in adolescents

Paralysis in the beginning of sleep

One of the most important diseases during sleep is respiratory diseases, which is the most common indication of sleep test and is often manifested through snoring. In the past, snoring was the sign of deep sleep. You might think this as well, but you should know that snoring can be a sign of obstructive sleep apnea, which leads to various complications.

In our country, more than three million individuals are diagnosed with sleep apnea, and one-third of men of our country snore.

If you have the following symptoms, ask your physician to examine you in terms of sleep apnea:

Ø  Loud snoring heard through walls

Ø  Reports of severely impaired or difficulty breathing, which scares the relatives, leading to the awakening of the person to breath

Ø  Sleep bruxism

Ø  Hypertension

Ø  High blood sugar with difficulties to be controlled

Ø  Restless legs syndrome

Ø  Fatty liver

Ø  Brain stroke

Ø  Excessive weight with difficulties to lose weight

Ø  And some other symptoms

We recommend that after hearing the podcast, assess your sleep state and see whether you need to visit a sleep specialist or not. In case of any questions, please consult with your own physician.