Prescription medication is commonly used to treat pediatric insomnia. Still, behavioral sleep medicine has shown great promise as a first line of treatment.
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Dead Butt Syndrome, Hair Loss, and Funky B.O.
Just a few of the odd pandemic ailments causing our coronasomnia.
’ve dealt with perils of maskne, been troubled about the effects of skin hunger, and fretted over the infamous “quarantine fifteen.”
(OK Who am I kidding? It’s more like 20 or 25. My muffin top is now a seven-layer cake.)
But nothing could prepare me for the headline accosting me during my early morning social media scroll:
My “sleep hygiene” is bad. My “circadian rhythms” flutter like the pigeons having sex outside my bathroom window every morning. To paraphrase the language of sleep researchers, my “sleep quality” sucks. And yet, right now, more than the risk of stroke, the fear of obesity or any “increased irritability” — all long associated with a disruption of a healthy sleep routine — my concern right now .
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Not sleeping as well as you did when you were 20? That’s because the quality of sleep we get declines as we get older. Here are some sleep-specialist approved ways for women over 40 to fall asleep faster and actually stay asleep.