Sleep disorders in children

Sleep is essential to human activities especially for children. Consider the needs of the child to sleep, because during sleep, infant brain growth reaches its peak. Not only that, muscle, skin, heart and vascular system, metabolism, and bone growth in his sleep. That's because children's body produces growth hormone three times more than when she awoke.

Referring to one study Sekartini et al in 2004-2005 in five major cities in Indonesia (Jakarta, Bandung, Medan, Palembang and Batam), Rini reveal, as much as 72.2 percent of parents think sleep problems in infants is not a problem or just a minor problem.

The same study also revealed that there were about 44 percent of infants who experience sleep disorders such as frequent waking at night and sleep deprivation. "The baby is said to experience sleep disturbance at night when less than 9 hours sleep, woke up more than 3 times and duration of awakening more than 1 hour. During the visible always fussy baby sleep, cry and difficult to fall asleep again," said Rini.

Causes of sleep disorders

How to recognize sleep disorders in children?

Sleep time in children is said to have not a normal situation if:

1. Children awake for 3 or more times in one night or several nights. Or at least four times a week under such interference exists.

2. In her sleep outside the usual activities, move children to sleep on the bed's parents

3. Child refuses to sleep at least 30 minutes during sleep time, sleep begins to start a little angry or agitated.

4. In initiating sleep aid should be required before parents can sleep when their own.

In addition, parents must also consider the psychological condition of children by improving the pattern of care, quality of touch, and identify your temperament and environmental factors must be supportive. Because sleep is a learned behavior that can be formed through the routine and good sleep habits.

Science and research on sleep problems in children, still not much is revealed. So it is still unclear revealed the cause of sleep disorders in children. Various conjectures and assumptions developed in response to sleep disorders in children. Various causes are often called emosial state-psychological disorders, high fever, stress or disrupted sleep position.

Anti-Stress Foods

Once the stress? Stress has become part of our society today, especially for people who live in big cities (which is included in the Metropolitan category). Various problems that cause stress can easily be found in these cities.

What is the solution? often our hands will reach for ice cream or a sweet candy to immediately relieve stress. But the result, of course, many people do not want to feel the consequences which arise because of the high-calorie sweet foods this. Maybe you do not believe, that in fact the best way to deal with stress is to help our brain to move more calmly and patiently.

Grilled chicken and beef
Grilled chicken will provide good protein. 200 grams of protein will help your brain create dopamine and norepinephrine, a natural chemical in the brain that will make you stay alert, says Judith Wurtman, Ph.D., author of The Serotonin Power Diet. Meanwhile, although the meat contains fat, but also contains vitamin B, iron and zinc are very rich in substance, thus being good for your stress.

Impact of Alcohol

Consuming alcoholic beverages now like to be part of the lifestyle of some communities in Indonesia. Starting from a mere trial and error, many of which then finally hooked with this one type of beverage.

So far, the negative impact of excessive alcohol consumption the most widely known is drunk alone, and that too may disappear by itself. But it turned out negative effects not just stop there. Not just cause drunk, but alcohol also has other negative effects to the body. Impact of high alcohol-containing beverages in humans are destroying the human body's metabolic system which then caused damage to some elements of addiction and the brain.

Alcoholic beverages have different levels. For example, beer and soda alcohol (1-7% alcohol), wines (10-15% alcohol), and liquor or referred to the spirit (35-55% alcohol). Blood alcohol concentration is achieved within 30-90 minutes after drinking.

Cervical Cancer

Cervical cancer also called is a type of cancer that 99.7% is caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) oncogenic, which attacks the cervix. This cancer can present with vaginal bleeding but symptoms of this cancer did not appear until the cancer entered the stadium even further. In developing countries, widespread use of cervical observation programs reduce the incidence of invasive cervical cancer by 50% or more. Most studies have found that infection with human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for all cases of cervical cancer. Treatment including surgery in early stages, and chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy in end-stage disease.

One of the traces of HPV is a wart virus attack. Wart is a skin rash in the shape bulging like cauliflower. HPV virus itself is a lot of that stuff (more than 100 kinds) who were each given a number to distinguish one type to another. 60 types of which cause skin warts are not dangerous. The rest is a mucosal HPV types, which only attack the mucus membranes such as those found at the mouth of the esophagus, the tip of the penis, vagina, cervix, and rectum. Mucosal type is also called genital HPV, because that is the area most often sexually assaulted. There is cause warts in the vagina or penis, commonly called the disease "chicken's comb", is HPV types 6 and 11, but this will not become cancerous.