What causes night headaches?

I believe many people have had the experience of having a headache when sleeping at night. There are many reasons for headaches, such as cervical spondylosis, neuralgia, excessive fatigue, staying up late, etc. If you suffer from anemia or abnormal blood pressure, it will also cause headaches. We need to find out the cause of the headache and then treat it symptomatically. It is very important to develop good living habits.

What's the connection between sleep quality and headaches?

Headache is a very common symptom in clinical practice. It can recur and exist for a long time. In severe cases, it has a great impact on people's study, work and rest. Especially when some patients are completely relieved by drug treatment under the guidance of a doctor, some inappropriate factors may cause the headache to recur or recur. Common causes include smoking, drinking, climate change, mental stress, improper diet or sleep disorders.

Sleep occupies a very important position in a person's life. According to physiologists, about 1/3 of the life is spent sleeping. Proper sleep is essential to human health. Sleep helps the brain rest, restore its excitability and make people energetic. During sleep, your heart rate slows, your muscles relax, and your blood pressure decreases. Various metabolisms throughout the body are at a lower level. This is helpful for eliminating fatigue.

Regarding the relationship between sleep and health, it is generally believed that sleep gives the brain rest. Short-term or long-term lack of sleep can lead to many neurological and mental symptoms, but the amount of sleep required varies greatly between individuals. Some people only sleep 2-3 hours a day all year round without any adverse reactions, while some people need a longer sleep time, about 8-10 hours. Sleeping 1-2 hours less can cause symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, and fatigue. On the contrary, when headaches occur frequently, it can also affect the quality of sleep. Lack of sleep will aggravate headaches, creating a vicious cycle. The two are causally related and influence each other. It can be seen from this that headaches are closely related to sleep. Taking appropriate sedative hypnotic drugs for long-term insomnia can have a certain effect on improving sleep and relieving headaches. When headaches affect your sleep, you should take headache medicine to ensure a good sleep quality, life and health.

A more popular and practical statement about aging is: "Aging refers to the process of a general and gradual decline in the functions of the body's organs." There are two different types of aging: one is physiological aging that occurs under normal circumstances; the other is pathological aging caused by disease. The aging caused by poor sleep is pathological aging. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "exertion depletes energy." This means that long-term excessive fatigue and exhaustion can cause a great consumption of the body's energy. Essence is the basis of human life activities. The activities of human limbs, seven orifices and internal organs, as well as human spiritual thinking and consciousness, all use essence as their source and driving force. Therefore, although there are many factors and complex manifestations of human aging, they are inevitably accompanied by the pathology of essence and Qi. “When essence and qi are deficient, evil will gather; when evil is rampant, essence will be damaged. This vicious cycle will cause illness.” In order to keep positive energy inside, that is, essence and qi are not deficient, fatigue must be eliminated. The best way to eliminate fatigue is to have a good sleep. After a good night's sleep, most people wake up feeling rested and energized. The reason is that during sleep, the body's essence and energy are kept in the five internal organs, the five internal organs are comfortable, qi and blood are harmonized, body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure drop, the number of breathing decreases, and endocrine function weakens, thereby reducing the body's metabolic rate and restoring physical strength.

In addition, sleep helps protect the brain. People who do not get enough sleep may show neuropsychiatric symptoms such as irritability, agitation or listlessness, distraction, and memory loss. Long-term lack of sleep may lead to hallucinations. The brain's oxygen consumption is greatly reduced during sleep, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the energy storage of brain cells, early recovery of energy, and improved brain utilization efficiency. In modern theoretical research on aging, one of the more important theories is the theory of central nervous system dysfunction. As the central nervous function of the brain gradually weakens, aging becomes more serious day by day, and the quality of sleep directly affects the central nervous function of the brain.