Daytime sleepiness
The big topic of Sleep disorder covers many topics. Please also note all other topics related to daytime sleepiness on :
- insomnia
- Difficulty falling asleep
- Difficulty sleeping through the night
- Insomnia from breathing pauses
- Sleepwalking
- Twitching in sleep
- Sleep Apneu Syndrome (Causes of Internal Medicine)
- Sleep disorders (neurological cause)
definition
Daytime sleepiness is one of the hypersomnic disorders and is characterized by increased sleepiness during the day, which cannot be explained by disturbed sleep at night.
Classification of daytime sleepiness
Daytime sleepiness can be divided into three groups:
- Narcolepsy
- primary hypersomnia
- behavioral sleep deprivation syndrome
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is a chronic condition that mostly occurs between the ages of 15 and 25 begins.
Symptoms:
- usually starts with Daytime sleepiness despite getting enough night's sleep in unusual situations such as during a conversation or while eating
- At a certain point, patients can no longer fight it and have to short nap hold
- however, recovery usually only lasts for an hour or two
- In the course of months to years, so-called usually occur Cataplexies on.
Emotional excitement leads to a sudden loss of tension Musculature. It can be so pronounced that patients collapse. The feeling of softness arises in lighter forms knee or the sinking of the lower jaw.
It lasts from a few moments to minutes, which the patient experiences with full consciousness. Kick in half of the patients Sleep paralysis on. When waking up after sleeping at night, the body muscles become completely paralyzed. This state lasts for a few minutes and is experienced as very fearful. - The hypnagogic hallucinations are lively images that appear while falling asleep and are mostly negative
- disturbed night sleep
- nocturnal pauses in breathing
- periodic leg movements
Primary hypersomnia
Symptoms:
- increased daytime sleepiness with an increased tendency to fall asleep with undisturbed night sleep
- the naps during the day are not relaxing for the patient
- and often one occurs Drowsiness on
- it is often difficult to wake patients up in the morning
Behavioral Sleep Deprivation Syndrome
Symptoms:
- permanently too short sleep time
- increased daytime sleepiness
- Concentration and attention problems
Negative sleep behavior has become so common here that patients do not associate the symptoms of daytime sleepiness with their behavior.
