Hypersomnia – Excessive Sleepiness Disorder Treatment Strategies

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Hypersomnia Excessive Sleepiness Disorder
Treatment Strategies
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• Hypersomnia, which mentions to either excessive
  daytime sleepiness or excessive time spent
  sleeping, is a situation in which a person has
  trouble staying awake during the day. People who
  are facing the hypersomnia can fall asleep at any
  time for instance, at work or while they are
  driving. They may also have other problems
  related to sleep, including a lack of energy and
  trouble thinking clearly. According to the
  National Sleep Foundation, 40 of people have a
  problem with hypersomnia in the whole world.

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Causes of Hypersomnia

• There are several possible causes of hypersomnia,
  including
• The sleep disorders narcolepsy (daytime
  sleepiness) and sleep apnea(interruptions of
  breathing during sleep)
• Not getting enough sleep at night (sleep
  deprivation)
• Being overweight
• Drug or alcohol abuse
• A head injury or neurological diseases, such
  as multiple sclerosis or Parkinsons disease
• Prescription drugs, such as tranquilizers or
  antihistamines
• Genetics (having a relative with hypersomnia)
• Depression
• Misery

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Diagnosing Hypersomnia

• If you always feel drowsy during the day, talk to
  your doctor or your pharmacist. In making
  recognition of hypersomnia, your doctor will ask
  you about your sleeping habits, how much sleep
  you get at night if you wake up at night, and
  whether you fall asleep during the day. Your
  doctor will also want to know if you are having
  any emotional problems or you are taking drugs
  that may be interfering your sleep. Your doctor
  may also order some tests, including blood tests,
  a sleep test and computed tomography (CT) scans
  called polysomnography. In some occurrence, an
  additional electroencephalogram (EEG), which
  measures the electrical process of the brain, is
  needed.

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Treatment of Hypersomnia

• If you are determining with hypersomnia, your
  doctor can advise various drugs to treat it,
  including stimulants, antidepressants, as well as
  several newer medications (for example, Provigil a
  nd Xyrem).
• If you are determined with sleep apnea, your
  doctor may prescribe a treatment known as
  continuous positive airway pressure or CPAP.
  With CPAP, you wear a mask over your nose while
  you are sleeping. A machine that delivers a
  constant flow of air into the nostrils is hooked
  up to the mask. The force from air flowing into
  the nostrils helps keep the airways open.
• If you are taking a medical drug that causes
  drowsiness, ask your doctor about changing to one
  that is less likely to make you sleepy. You may
  also want to go to bed earlier to try to get
  extra sleep at night, and you have to leave
  alcohol and caffeine.

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Conclusion

• Excessive Sleepiness is the main symptom that may
  be related to sleep poverty or other sleep
  disorders, such as narcolepsy, OSA, and SWSD.
  Uncontrolled sleepiness also is a frequent
  complaint of many patients with psychiatric
  illness. Sleep disorders and psychologist
  conditions often coexist. Miss-understanding of
  the relationship between these comorbidities may
  result in misdiagnosis, under-treatment and
  decreased quality of life. This, in turn, may
  lead to deal with personal and public safety,
  particularly when patients are driving or
  operating machinery.

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• An ideal determination begins with a point by
  point meeting with the patient about potential
  factors that may add to the anomalous drowsiness.
  The assessment movement may require a rest study.
  Non-pharmacologic ways to deal with fix ought to
  be presented at first, with an accentuation on
  appropriate rest cleanliness and, sometimes, the
  utilization of short prophylactic snoozes. In the
  event that these capacities dont resolve the
  issue, a wake-advancing operator or stimulant
  drugs might be shown. A variety of classes and
  plans of medications are accessible. These drugs
  have been appeared to expand readiness, upgrade
  attentiveness, improve discernment and execution,
  and decline the abstract feeling of weariness and
  ought to turn out to be a piece of a far-reaching
  treatment program.

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• Excessive daytime sleepiness and impaired
  alertness are frequently difficult to identify
  and assess. However, because of the heavy social
  and economic load on society, clinicians should
  evaluate and treat excessive sleepiness as part
  of a comprehensive treatment regimen.

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