The dangers of long-term insomnia

Insomnia is a very painful thing. It not only affects our own health, but also to a large extent, it affects our study and work status the next day. This is the harm of long-term insomnia that most of us know. For every normal person, generally no one wants himself or his family to have long-term insomnia symptoms, because long-term insomnia is a manifestation of a disease.

In our daily lives, many people suffer from insomnia. There are many reasons that cause insomnia in the human body, and general insomnia is related to our work and study pressure or diet. However, if a person suffers from insomnia for a long time, it is usually because of physical illness.

So, let’s talk about the dangers of long-term insomnia.

Long-term insomnia will cause intellectual activity disorders in the human body, which will manifest as memory loss, easy forgetfulness, inattention and mental anxiety, etc. At the same time, long-term insomnia will cause certain damage to various functions of the human body. For example, insomnia patients will experience daytime dizziness, poor appetite, indigestion, and even headaches, limb or facial numbness, difficulty breathing, palpitations, blood pressure fluctuations, sweating, and irregular menstruation.

Many people now think that insomnia is a minor illness and does not require seeing a doctor, taking medicine or injections. However, they do not realize that once complications of insomnia occur, it will become extremely difficult to treat. Long-term insomnia will cause serious mental complications such as anxiety, depression, and mania as the disease progresses. This type of patient is unwilling to actively contact new things and new environments, and is extremely difficult to cooperate with the doctor's treatment. Once stimulated in the later recovery period, the disease will recur more often.

1. Leading to amnesia: Long-term insomnia will cause the body's memory to degenerate. Patients often show symptoms of forgetfulness and forgetfulness of what they just wanted to say. In severe cases, it may develop into Alzheimer's disease. Although it cannot be said that frequent insomnia will directly induce Alzheimer's disease, it can at least be one of the factors that induce Alzheimer's disease.

2. Causing habitual hair loss: Modern medicine shows that the length of sleep time has a significant relationship with hair loss, and hair loss is also closely related to sleep quality. Therefore, frequent insomnia can easily lead to hair loss.

3. Cause depression: There is a close connection between insomnia and depression. Many patients with depression have experienced insomnia, and long-term insomnia may also cause depression.

4. Causes sleep apnea syndrome: Sleep apnea syndrome is a manifestation of sleep disorder and is closely related to frequent insomnia.

5. Formation of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: People who often suffer from insomnia are prone to obvious vascular hardening and narrowing of the caliber, which will seriously affect their own blood supply, causing dysfunction of various organs and even causing diseases such as stroke and heart disease.

6. Cancer comes quietly: Although there is no medical evidence that insomnia can cause cancer, experts believe that frequent insomnia is likely to be a major cause of cancer, so good sleep is an important magic weapon to reduce the incidence of cancer and defeat cancer.

So, everyone should now understand the dangers of long-term insomnia, and the dangers of long-term insomnia generally include the following: long-term insomnia may affect a person's health; long-term insomnia may also cause a person's hair loss; long-term insomnia may cause depression; long-term insomnia may cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in the human body; long-term insomnia may also cause cancer, etc., so we must pay attention to this aspect in our daily life.