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Natural Remedies for Insomnia
What is Insomnia?
Types of Insomnia
Insomnia - meaning disturbed sleep - comes in many forms.
Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea occurs where there is marked disturbance of breathing during the night, often associated with snoring. This leads to momentary waking, not usually noticeable to the patient, and loss of relaxing sleep. A consequence of this is daytime tiredness and drowsiness. It is a warning of the possibility of other problems such as heart attack and need treating. It can often occur in people who are overweight and weight loss can be a cure.
Insomnia
Insomnia is principally a difficulty in getting to sleep. Sleeping pills may help the onset of sleep but do not maintain sleep for more than a couple of hours. If there is early morning waking, then depression should be considered.
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy is an uncommon condition where there are very short episodes of sleep during the day causing accidents and injuries.
child careSometimes sleep disorder is a symptom of other problems; for instance, excessive wakefulness can be related to thyroid disease. A doctor should exclude any medically remediable cause before treatment.
Also helpful may be anxiety, stress and senior care.
| A Selection of Videos about Insomnia and Sleep Disorders |
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| Help Me Sleep | Exercises to Aid Sleep Apnea |
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What Helps Insomnia?
Insomnia Treatment
Medication
In a depressive sleep disorder tricyclic antidepressants are usually used such as Prothiaden or Nortriptyline. Difficulty getting to sleep responds to benzodiazepine drugs such as Lormetazepam and Temazepam. These all have side effects, the latter especially are addictive. They are only licenced for six weeks and should not be taken for longer than that.
The pineal gland hormone melatonin is thought to help the sleep disturbance due to jet lag.
Home Remedies
Home remedies - anything from "homework", exercises, reading and so on. Natural Remedies from Shared Care offers:-
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| Neuroliminal Therapy | Dr Phil Bate's Neuroliminal Therapy |
Natural Cures for Insomnia
We explain what we mean by natural cures, natural remedies, home remedies for the explanation of the way we define these terms.
These help Insomnia:-
Please also check out Approaches Individual to the Practitioner for other therapies and treatments.
Who Can Help Insomnia?
Who has a Special Interest in Insomnia?
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| Dr. | Marjorie | Copithorn | Alberta | Canada | |
| Mr. | Martin | Schwartz | Alberta | Canada | |
| Mrs. | Cindy | Fisher | British Columbia | Canada | |
| Ms. | Alison L. | Longley | British Columbia | Canada | |
| Mr. | Ian Paul | Sharp | Ceredigion | Great Britain | |
| Ms. | Trisha | Mulholland | London | Great Britain | |
| Mr. | Peter | Caughey | Auckland | New Zealand | |
| Dr. | Brendan | Armm | California | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Debby | Shapiro | Colorado | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Ellen | Kratka | Connecticut | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Patricia | Ahner | Florida | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Danny | Jackson | Florida | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Linda | Rowlands | Florida | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Pamela | Bellamy | Georgia | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Linda | Meyer | Illinois | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Mark | Fradkin | Maryland | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Jennifer | Stukey | Maryland | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Suzahne | Riendeau | Massachusetts | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Aaron | Means | Minnesota | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Bryan | Watrous | Montana | United States of America | |
| Mr. | Suryanarayana | Chennapragada | New York | United States of America | |
| Mrs. | Catherine | Browne | North Carolina | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Patricia | Hallam | Oregon | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Laura | Santi | Oregon | United States of America | |
| Ms. | Maureen | Killoran | Texas | United States of America | |
Insomnia Support Groups
The home country of the group is listed. Most will provide more information, advice, contacts and help wherever you live:-
| Narcolepsy and Overwhelming Daytime Sleep Society of Australia NODDS | Australia | National |
| British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association | Great Britain | National |
| Humber Sleep Apnoea Support Group | Great Britain | 50 mile radius from Cottingham, East Yorkshire |
| The British Sleep Foundation | Great Britain | National |
| The Sleep Apnoea Trust Association | Great Britain | National |
| Irish Sleep Apnoea Trust | Ireland | National |
| Narcolepsy Support Group of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Sleep Apnoea Association of New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| Sleep New Zealand | New Zealand | National |
| American Sleep Apnea Association | United States of America | National |
| Narcolepsy Network | United States of America | National |
| National Sleep Foundation | United States of America | National |
Please email editor(at)shared-care.com with the name and URL of your suggestions for additional groups.
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