Can melatonin in melatonin really treat insomnia?

Last week, we agreed to talk about melatonin as a health care product, but since melatonin has been silent in the health care product market for several years, we might as well expand the scope of this problem and talk about the various functions of melatonin, the main component of melatonin.

Many health products containing melatonin (including melatonin) claim to have the effect of treating long-term insomnia. Is it true?/You don't say.

Melatonin (source: watsons.com)

First of all, what is insomnia?

Sleep disorders can be divided into four types.

The first category is to sleep when you shouldn't, such as daytime sleepiness;

The second category is not sleeping when you should sleep, such as rhythm disorder, which is like this from 2 to 8 o'clock;

The third category is restless sleep, sleepwalking, nightmares, etc.

The fourth category is that if you want to sleep, you can't sleep, which is insomnia.

Insomnia includes two types.

One is lack of sleep caused by objective reasons. There will be an exam tomorrow or overtime at the end of the year. Dare you sleep? These are all? Force majeure factors? ;

On the other hand, sleep caused by physiological, psychological, drug and other factors is what we often call insomnia.

The performance of insomnia is different for everyone. It can be difficult to fall asleep, or it can be a shallow sleep, which makes it difficult to fall asleep and wake up accidentally. It may also be that the sleep quality is not good. After a long sleep, I was still very tired the next day. These symptoms, once or twice, are nothing serious and common, but if they appear three or four times a week and last for more than a month, then insomnia should be considered.

Judgment of insomnia

First of all, according to the sleep quality, various psychological scales are used to test, among which Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is the most commonly used. 1

Secondly, according to the symptoms, mild insomnia usually only causes fatigue and drowsiness, while severe insomnia may lead to memory and vitality decline, and even hallucinations and tinnitus. 2

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Scale (Source:. The signed articles published on this website only represent the author's views and have nothing to do with this website. If there is any infringement, you are responsible.

Author: Zhao Yanchang