VIDEO: Fatigue despite getting enough sleep

• 2:08
  How do you keep awake? - How to beat fatigue
• 2:21
  Autumn fatigue - so you can feel awake and fresh again
• 2:22
  Headache in the morning - this is how you can prevent it

What you need:

• sleep-laboratory
• comfortable mattress
• earplugs

Despite getting enough sleep, I am unable to concentrate

• If you get in on time in the evening bed go, but feel tired in the morning despite getting enough sleep, it is possible that you suffer from sleep apnea syndrome, or SAS for short.
• If your breathing muscles are too slack, your windpipe is temporarily blocked and you can no longer breathe. In order for the doctor to diagnose you with this disease, you must have more than ten such pauses in breathing per hour, each lasting more than ten seconds.
• During the time that you are not breathing at night, your oxygen is not being enriched with blood. Your brain will then be deprived of oxygen and suffer as a result.
• However, your body developed a mechanism to keep you alive: as soon as you stop breathing for too long, you wake up and then start breathing again.
• However, you will only wake up briefly for this mechanism to work. You fell asleep again just as quickly; They didn't notice these little sleep breaks. But since they occur dozens of times a night, you feel tired in the morning despite apparently getting enough sleep.


Lack of sleep and nausea - noteworthy things

Do you suffer from lack of sleep? That is more than bad, because it can literally ...

• If your significant other complains about snoring or troubling pauses in breathing, see your doctor and have them checked in a sleep laboratory.
• It is important to be able to sleep properly again. The complication of sleep apnea is microsleep, which is particularly dangerous when you are behind the wheel of a car.

Other reasons for fatigue

In addition to sleep apnea syndrome, there can be other reasons why you are despite being adequately sleep under fatigue To suffer.

• Do you go to bed early enough to sleep? It is important that you sleep before midnight. If you regularly come to bed later, your body no longer has the opportunity to achieve sufficient deep sleep phases.
• Is her mattress comfortable enough? If you roll back and forth at night because your neck is move or hip pain, you won't be rested in the morning.
• Perhaps your hearing is very well developed. Even quiet noises can then disturb your sleep. You may not wake up properly but fall asleep again quickly so that you don't remember in the morning. Earplugs could help you in this case.
• Or do you have to get up at night because you have to go to the toilet? For sensitive people, walking at night is enough to make you feel tired in the morning despite getting enough sleep. Then do without drinks in the evening, but above all tea, Coffee and alcohol.