The use of hypnotics or drugs to facilitate sleep and induce sleep is a practice widely used in Western female population over 50.

Insomnia in women, particularly after menopause, is an extremely common problem and unfortunately perhaps a little too superficially treated with the simple use of benzodiazepines.

With these drugs insomnia and sleep disturbances classical control it brilliantly in most cases, but once you start treatment the patients can hardly suspend their continuing use.

Over the years it seems natural to begin a slow and gradual assumption continued dependence on a growing list of drugs considered essential in a certain way.

What I do not think it is that all these substances are added in their metabolic aspects especially when taken daily and continued over the years.

Benzodiazepines as many know is a class of drugs known to give both physical and psychic dependence. What does this mean? This means that after a period longer or shorter intake the body can not do without it, or is no longer possible to sleep or rest quietly without assumption. That's why doctors usually do not take off more, so it happens that people aged more than 80% of women and take them contain in their list of drugs.

A real problem for those who use it, a bargain for the industries that produce them. The reasoning is as follows: Rather than sleep and not feel bad about the lack of sleep is better to take a drug. What is not considered is that the reasoning in this way is rather incomplete and simplistic.

The fact that the female population over 50 is the major consumer of these drugs, can not but make us think about the possible link between menopause and insomnia. And 'everyone knows that the famous hot in most cases worse at night causing frequent awakenings and difficulty returning to sleep. Also among the various disorders of menopause, there are frequent changes of mood, anxiety disorders and often even lack of sleep or sleep quality.

Many women think that you should keep flushing because of menopause are part and then we should live. Others, driven by their gynecologist, taking medications oestroprogestative support recently re-launched on the market as salvagiovinezza and health, and finally other people think that anxiety and insomnia are problems in their own right to be treated separately and distinctly.

It 's rare that the matter be considered as a whole. During menopause, not all people have the same problems as some will have more hot flashes, insomnia and anxiety than others, some more pain, dizziness or headache or malaise generic. The deficiency of yin in Chinese medicine, produces what is called empty calories, but also responsible for flushing a number of other disorders such as anxiety, insomnia, increased diastolic blood pressure (the minimum to understand) and heart rate , dizziness and headache for example, or upset stomach as another example.

Actually treating hot flashes or other problems arose precisely during menopause is not just randomly through the Chinese herbal medicine, it works not just the symptom but on empty calories, which nourishes the yin component, fluid and blood.

The diagnosis will be done with the evaluation of symptoms, by listening to the wrists as well as blood pressure and heart rate that will give valuable information. Once the framework of vacuum heat treatment of herbal Chinese medicine will work indirectly on the various physical ailments and therefore also on the 'insomnia, as well as on other related disorders without having to use any of progestogens benzodiazepines.

The Chinese herbal medicine, once restored the balance at the base of the symptoms will gradually discontinued without itself becoming another form of therapy for life. An improvement of the quality of life without increasing indefinitely our liver.

In the case of addiction to benzodiazepines well established, it is possible to exploit the effect of acupuncture used not only to stop taking substances such as nicotine, but effective in detoxifying the body from any kind of drugs including medicines. The acupuncture treatment will be performed regularly and variable time depending on the case and the time of taking the drug, reducing the dosage of benzodiazepines very slowly until their complete elimination.

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Recently I've a case of a young mother who does not sleep more than 2 ½ years, since his little creature came into the world. Your child has always presented frequent awakenings at night, preventing sleep that exceed 40 minutes. His night is done so by small pauses of sleep that never reach the full hour!

This problem seems widespread, within two years the 'incidence of insomnia is about 20-30%. What is interesting is that Italy seems to suffer most from this problem than the U.S. and the rest of Europe.

It 'possible that the sense of duty and Italian nursery care are more culturally rooted in this nation but perhaps is also due to the fact that in Italy the mother is not so strongly supported by external aid and services. And 'in a certain way totifacente: mom, wife, housewife, woman at work.

Usually grandmothers are valid only help some of which you can not ask for more. It also happens often in the world of work that a new mammma lose authority or to be put in positions of responsibility and sometimes degraded limited role in a more or less visible, or be forced to unmanageable schedules for their family needs.

My patient told me just a total change of his duties and position, and probable causes of tensions innnegabile unconscious discontented.

A dear friend tells me to suffer the same problem of very frequent awakenings from sleep, insurgents after the seventh month of birth when he resumed his work.

It 'possible that job stress and overall management of all charged women, can itself generate and stabilize this insomnia, establishing a vicious circle, the less you sleep the more you are tense you become and more easily awakened. (more ...)

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Whoever catches the fish, we often complain of not being sufficiently awake and alert and on the other hand maybe you have trouble sleeping. It seems a paradox! It's hard to stay awake during the day and do not rest at night!

Many fear they will lose precious time in sleep and delay more and more time to go to bed gradually reversing sleep-wake rhythm. Many are afraid to sleep and not taking hypnotic drugs becoming employees.,

One time there was talk of the sleep of the just, meaning thereby that those who behaved in the right way, they had no sleep problems. In our century proposals, especially in recent decades, sleep disorders appear to be increasing.

Not only the elderly, postmenopausal women and persons affected by pathologies are affected, but there are many so-called healthy people and even children and addolescenti suffering from such disorders.

For sleep disturbance is defined as a sleep of poor quality and / or quantity: a non-restorative sleep, frequent awakenings, waking up early, delay in falling, excessive dreams, nocturnal bruxism or muscle contractures. The estimated incidence is 15-20%, about one child in infancy and preschool age 3.

The causes of these problems can be numerous and the lighthouse 'a boring discussion of the various possibilities. However, it is useful to know that there are such causes vacuum (or lack of ...) as the elderly and in postmenopausal women from full and causes or excess, and here we can put children and adults under stress.

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