If you don't sleep, will you die?

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The average adult's sleep to be satisfactory requires at least 7 hours a day and decreases with increasing age. Thanks to enough and deep sleep, the body will feel refreshed after waking up, improving work and study productivity. Therefore, lack of sleep will severely affect human health from mental health to physical health such as weight, appearance, memory. So is it really dead if you don't sleep?

1. The effects of lack of sleep

Bad habits that affect sleep quality such as: sleeping at the wrong time, not napping, sleeping in a strange, uncomfortable place, watching too much TV or using the computer or phone too much before playing games. sleep. From there, not being able to sleep will give rise to the following health problems:
Mental instability, or irritability: Most people after a night of sleepless nights will have an irritable mentality due to hormone changes, easily floating hot not for any particular reason. Bad effects on skin: Not getting enough sleep will cause swollen eyes, dark circles, wrinkles and pale skin because the body has to release a lot of the hormone cortisol causing excess, breaking down collagen - the protein that helps increase elasticity and smoothness of the skin. Skin Memory impairment: Normally, the brain will be able to consolidate memories and transfer information received into the cortex where long-term memory is stored, this is most effectively done while we sleep. Therefore, lack of sleep will make the brain not complete communication leading to forgetfulness Increase the risk of depression: Studies show that patients with anxiety depression often sleep less than 6 hours at night. This is also a pathological spiral when people who do not sleep for many days are also more prone to depression than the average person Weight gain: Lack of sleep is also a cause related to a history of obesity because Ghrelin-hormone stimulates hunger in the body body, while leptic transmits satiety signals to the brain and suppresses appetite. So lack of sleep also means decreased leptic and increased ghrelin to high levels causing cravings.

2. Is it okay for people not to sleep?

Insomnia can be a direct cause of death due to diseases causing insomnia or diseases arising after not sleeping for many days. First, fatal familial severe insomnia and sporadic fatal insomnia are rare hereditary or diffuse prion diseases that cause sleep problems, movement disorders, and death. Specifically as follows:
Familial fatal insomnia with an autosomal dominant mutation in the PrP gene that usually begins around the age of 40. Symptoms include difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. sleep, cognitive decline, and symptoms of perceptual disturbances. Disseminated fatal insomnia is a mutation that lacks the PrP gene, which often has an earlier onset and also causes insomnia and cognitive decline. Besides, insomnia or complete lack of sleep also leads to consequences such as depression, Chronic headache, degeneration and cytotoxicity. More dangerous than sleep loss can also cause cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes are risk factors for stroke.

3. How to recognize insomnia?

Insomnia can be recognized through the following 3 signs:
It takes more than 30 minutes to lie in bed but can't fall asleep, then it's exhausted to go to the dream state Sleep is interrupted continuously by dreams , daydreaming, nocturia, ... leading to the inability to maintain normal sleep After each sleep the body does not feel refreshed, but on the contrary, becomes more and more tired, sluggish and mentally depressed At this time the patient has You can refer to some of the following methods to get back to a better night's sleep:
Not being active much before going to sleep will increase energy, secrete a lot of cholesterol, make it difficult to sleep. Sleep, keep the bedroom airy and quiet Do not use stimulants such as coffee, alcohol, beer in the evening, maintain a suitable diet and exercise Do not use sleeping pills to increase your ability to sleep. The ability to sleep easily because of the constant side effects such as dizziness, headache, irritability, and the body's biological wake-up cycle is also completely disrupted. This can make people dependent on sleeping pills to get a good night's sleep, increasing the risk of stroke. Currently, to find the cause and determine the insomnia, Vinmec International General Hospital has implemented the method of measuring sleep polysomnography. This is a safe, non-invasive sleep disorder diagnosis similar to an electrocardiogram. The multi-sleep device is specifically designed to measure body activity during sleep, so it will help patients relax, pain-free while sleeping. The electrodes are glued to the scalp, near the eyes, near the chin, on the chest, near the nose and mouth....no pain. The patient is given a wireless transmitter and transmits the received signals to the server, without hindering travel. After the polysomnography was completed, the machine's electrodes were gently removed.
Through the indicators given by the sleep polygraph, it is possible to help doctors at Vinmec best diagnose different types of sleep disorders, know what kind of sleep disorder the patient is suffering from. for appropriate treatment guidelines.

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