Problems with their dream takes 8,570 Valencians per annum to hospital

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Problems with their dream takes 8,570 Valencians per annum to hospital.

The problems with these bad dreams has now stopped being  a domestic subject but one that has been consigned to the hospitals. 

Last year, the Valencian hospitals opened their doors to a total of 8,570 people for exploratory diagnosis to deal with their upheavals caused by their bad dreams.  The results are insomnia and daytime drowsiness  according to data from the Conselleria of Health who was interviewed by the daily paper "20 minutes".

The hospitals with the greatest volume of explorations and consultations in the past year were: -

1. The General of Alicante, with a total of 2,044,
2. The Hospital of Sant Joan (1.300)
3. Doctor Peset and the Shore, with 1,200 cases each.

Many of these patients are young, mainly those that suffer "apnea of the dream", according to sources at the Hospital of Xàtiva.

A carried out study by doctor Gonzalo Pin, medical director of the Valencian Unit of Sueño (Dream) at the Clínica Quirón, reveals that 28.5% of the students of ESO find it hard to stay wide-awake in the morning and more than half attend late, after having slept eight hours.

Behind this phenomenon they believe are caused by new technologies, like computers, TV and Mobile Phones, since they receive an average of three SMS messages after lying down in bed.

5 QUESTIONS ON THE UPHEAVALS OF THE DREAM

1 Which are the most common diseases of the dream? Most common it is the apnea of the dream, an obstruction of the respiratory tract that causes some seconds without breathing and it forces the person to awake continuously. It causes respiratory drowsiness, upheavals and lack of concentration. Other pathologies are the syndrome of anxious legs, insomnia, epilepsy, narcolepsy…

2 They have solution?  Yes - Most important it is to go to the doctor, who will send the patient to a specific unit where the diagnosis with studies is realised and a treatment is given.

3 What type of tests are they given? They are of a respiratory character, consultations or also can be done in their sleep at night or in their siesta.  Perhaps one whole night, the patient will be put under one complete exploration in the clinic or hospital.

4 Are there are specific syndromes by ages? Yes, in the units of dream of the Valencian hospitals the syndrome phase delay, a biological tendency of the adolescents to fall asleep behind schedule is sometimes exaggerated and it is possible to be prolonged in the morning until the 04,00.

5 Are these problems on the increase?  Faculties in Valencian are detecting a rise in the last year, mainly of the youngest population.  This is the reason why they request plans for dealing with this matter by mainly the relevant pediatric professionals.

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