What to do if teenagers have trouble falling asleep

Nowadays, many teenagers have difficulty falling asleep. Even if they are sleepy, they toss and turn and cannot fall asleep. In fact, this is a symptom of insomnia. Insomnia usually includes difficulty falling asleep, waking up too early in the morning or frequently waking up in the middle of the night. Long-term insomnia can cause patients to suffer from physical discomfort, restlessness, slow reaction, memory loss and fatigue, and even severe cases may lead to schizophrenia. So what can teenagers do if they have trouble falling asleep?

1. Physiological factors

Physical illness and medications can affect sleep, such as indigestion, headaches, back pain, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, asthma, sinusitis, ulcers, or certain medications that affect the central nervous system.

2. Lifestyle

Sleep problems are also common due to lifestyle factors, such as drinking coffee or tea, drinking alcohol in the evening, eating too close to bedtime or eating a late dinner so that the stomach is full of undigested food, heavy smoking, strenuous physical activity before bedtime, excessive mental activity before bedtime, working the night shift, taking naps during the day, irregular bedtimes, and irregular waking times.

Possible causes include being stressed, overly worried, nervous or anxious, sad or depressed, angry, and prone to sleeping problems.

4. Environmental factors

Noisy sleeping environment, sleeping environment that is too bright, polluted, overcrowded.

2. Diagnosis of Insomnia:

① Insomnia is manifested by difficulty falling asleep, and it takes more than 30 minutes to fall asleep; ② Sleep quality is reduced, sleep maintenance disorder, awakening times throughout the night ≥ 2 times, early awakening, and reduced sleep quality; ③ Total sleep time is reduced, usually less than 6 hours. The above symptoms are accompanied by daytime functional impairment. Sleep-related daytime functional impairment includes: ① fatigue or general discomfort; ② decreased concentration, attention maintenance ability or memory; ③ decreased learning, work and/or social ability; ④ mood swings or irritability; ⑤ daytime sleepiness; ⑥ decreased interest and energy; ⑦ increased tendency to make mistakes during work or driving; ⑧ tension, headache, dizziness, or other physical symptoms related to sleep loss; ⑨ excessive concern about sleep.

1. Health care therapy: Massage the temples and Baihui acupoints several times a day, and comb your hair with a health care wooden comb for 5 minutes to keep your mood happy, relieve your worries, and eliminate mental concerns.

2. Diet therapy: Take jujube, wheat, and rock sugar. First, boil the jujube and wheat in water to remove the residue and take the juice. Add the rock sugar and dissolve it and take it all at once, once a night.

3. Medicinal porridge therapy: take appropriate amounts of jujube, longan, rice and sugar. First, cook rice into porridge. When it boils, add dates and yuanrou. When the porridge is cooked, add rock sugar and boil it for one or two more times. Take one dose per day. 4. Umbilical filling therapy: Take Chinese jujube seeds, grind them into fine powder, place them in the navel, fix them with external analgesic ointment, and change them once a day.

5. Foot compress therapy: Take cinnabar, add appropriate amount of paste and mix well, put it on the analgesic ointment, apply it on the Yongquan point on the sole of the foot, bandage and fix it, once a night.

6. Foot bath therapy: decoct magnet, chrysanthemum, scutellaria baicalensis, and polyanthus multiflorus in water twice, remove the residue and take the juice, pour it into the bathtub, soak your feet in the hot water for 15-30 minutes, once a night.