Tag Archive for 'drowsiness'
Advice to the Sleep Deprived Employee on Shifts
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung August 8th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, Sleep Business, Sleep Issues.
Traditionally, all employees and workers look forward to the standard 8 to 5 job. With that in mind, you just have to follow the regular sleeping pattern to which most would find their way to bed by 9 in the evening.
But for people who work on changing shifts, adjusting the sleep pattern may not be that easy. For most, drowsiness and that heavy feeling is there especially if you are fresh from a previous work shift schedule.
So what is a person to do. Well for one, you have to get used to it if you are decided to keep that job of yours. The transition is not that easy. Imagine coming of an 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift and then working on an 11 p.m. to 8 p.m. shift. You are bound to encounter preliminary headaches and of course sleeping difficulties. But after a couple of days, your body clock will adjust accordingly until perhaps the next shift schedule.
Most people who suffer from this issue come from the call centers and the medical sector. But considering how hard it is today to get a job, they are left with few options. The worst part of it is that this sleep disorder will haunt them for years to come. Being accustomed to such is really something that people have to realize. It just will not go easily compared to how it came.
Finally, you are really just left with two choices:
1. Bear with the job and adjust to the job requirement needs.
2. Consider a career change or look for another similar job that may not be entirely demanding as far as ruining your regular body clock cycle.
The choice is really all up to you.
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Herbal Medicine Prescriptions for Sleep Deprivation
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung August 7th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues, Sleeping Pills.The intake of various herbal medicine or unknown remedies to help cure sleep deprivation are no different from the usual health-related issues we have. But as far as medication is concerned, unknown meds should still come with the necessary prescription to avoid problems in the long run which may even cost you your life.
Such is the issue of the illegal herbal pill called estazolam which had claimed the life of Michael Berggen who died in a single vehicle roll-over two years ago. The only thing the Canadian authorities have gathered is that it is dangerous but as far as origin is concerned, they are just dumbfounded right now.
The veteran trucker and father of four was making his first run of the morning on Boxing Day, 2006, when he drove out of Hines Creek, 560 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, lost control of his tandem truck, hit a snowbank and rolled. He wasn’t wearing his seatbelt and died at the scene.
The medical examiner later discovered estazolam in his blood - a rare, powerful tranquilizer which can cause drowsiness and dizziness. It’s not clear what role the drug played in his death, if any, but Provincial Court Judge McIntosh presided over a fatality inquiry last week and is expected to report his findings in the coming months.
(Source) Canada.com
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This Thing Called Microsleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 29th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP Fun, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, SLEEP Video, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Myths.Drowsiness or yawning are symptoms of not being on the same page as most people who lack the necessary hours of sleep. In a sense, we tend to fall into this thing called microsleep wherein we get some short spells of yearning for sleep. Hopefully the next time we open our eyes, we are still in the same world.
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