Sleep Deprivation in Teens: A Common Problem

Adolescence requires an average of 8 to 10 hours of sleep every night. However, most people can not get the necessary amount of sleep. School, friends, homework, activities, TV, computers are all more important than adolescent sleep. Lack of sleep may have serious consequences for youth's health and happiness. Here's a way to better understand the needs of your child's sleep and you can do to help them

Teenagers often get up late at night and want to go to bed in the morning. This is not because it is lazy or stubborn. This is actually due to the natural rhythm of the teenager's body. In adolescent body chemistry, teenagers want to sleep naturally late at night or late at night and wake up in the morning. The early school start time collided with these natural body rhythms. By the stress of adolescence after school, he or she will not be able to sleep early to make up for it. The result is usually a lack of sleeping teenager.

Youth with insufficient sleep may have difficulty concentrating in the classroom and may have poor grades. Long-term sleep deprivation and overweight in adolescence are associated with an increased risk of diabetes or heart disease and infection. Young people with sleep deprivation may fall asleep in classes and other inappropriate places. For a driving teenager, drowsiness increases the risk of serious accidents

Encourage your child to sleep all night at regular intervals. Please try to sleep as often as possible. Help your child get up and stay late to do homework and study. If extra-curricular activities after school take too much time, please consider weight loss.

Let your child get up at the same time every morning. I can not recommend "keep up with sleeping" at the weekend. By turning off the sleep rhythm, this is more harmful than good

Do not leave anything other than sleeping in bed, such as reading, reading, eating, watching TV, calling, playing videos and other games.

Please restrict (at least stimulating) the use of television and computer at least an hour before going to bed. Instead, please encourage reading, listening to quiet music, writing a diary, or other calm activities at this time.

Let's help the bedroom sleep. Take off the TV, computer, and telephone from the bedroom. Make sure the bedroom is cool, keep as dark and quiet as possible

In the morning I can light the bright light of the children's room. Bright light helps the body to wake up and block sleep hormones. Alarm clock with light on the Internet

The following may be a sign of a more serious problem that can be treated. Please inform your health care provider of your child if your child is:

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Sleep shortage is a common problem for young students from 13 years old to 19 years old. Sleep shortage is defined as a general lack of necessary sleep. A typical teenager needs about 8 to 9 hours of sleep per night to receive the best study and fitness during class hours. Studies have shown that young people have an average sleeping time of 5 to 3 hours. Young students who choose to wake up late at night in the school usually are children who eventually fall asleep in class, but they miss an important course of the day. This is just one example of a problem that a student with a lack of sleep may face. This led to my argument that lack of sleep is a serious problem in adolescence. Behavioral problems, comprehension, memory, cognition (thinking process), motor function, arousal are the effects that sleep deprivation may accept

Studies show that sleep of adults and adolescents in developed countries is decreasing, Dr. Nancy Yuan, Director of Stanford's Children's Health and Sleep Center, this issue is most serious among young people Said. In the detailed 2014 report, the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that a tired teenager is becoming an epidemic of public health. William Dement, MD, MD, MD, the founder of the world's first Stanford sleep disorder clinic, says: "This is a big problem, which means that you can not reach the level that anyone can achieve, whether you are at school, on the street, in the playground, or in physical and mental health.