Sleep awakening disorder in shift work refers to insomnia and excessive daytime sleepiness caused by the inconsistency between personal working hours and social routine working hours. They usually work when they should sleep, especially at night. Therefore, they often doze off during working hours and suffer from insomnia after work, which often affects their physical and mental health and family harmony. This is a risk factor of shift intolerance, and women are more prone to shift intolerance than men. The second is the exposure time of sunlight or light, and the morning light is negatively related to the disease; The third is personal sleep habits or work patterns. For example, people who are willing to work night shifts, commonly known as "night owls", rarely appear, while people who go to bed early and get up early are more likely to get sick.

Because shift work interferes with the adjustment of natural light cycle to human body, the circadian rhythm in human body is out of sync with the environmental cycle, which leads to the inability of human body to quickly adapt to the environmental changes brought about by shift work, thus leading to sleep disorders. This is why some people have nothing to do with shift work, and they have to eat and sleep, and some people find it difficult to adapt. The main clinical manifestations are insomnia or daytime sleepiness, and the shift work history is clear, which is more common in night shift, early shift (starting from 4: 00 to 7: 00) and shift workers. The total sleep time is shortened to 1~4 hours, and the sleep quality is poor. Night shift, early shift and shift shift workers often show excessive sleepiness, often accompanied by nap or nap and mental fatigue. Patients' overall alertness and clarity decreased, irritability increased, executive ability decreased, and related symptoms or diseases, such as depression, alcoholism, gastrointestinal dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, obesity, etc.

Reasonable adjustment of sleep time, scientific arrangement of light time and intensity, to avoid the use of inappropriate stimulants and hypnotics. Adjust sleep time: reasonably arrange shifts and sleep time, improve the body's adaptability to circadian rhythm changes, and take a planned nap. Timing lighting: exposure at night, avoiding lighting after work in the morning, helps to reduce drowsiness at night. Taking melatonin regularly: taking melatonin before going to bed during the day can improve the quality and duration of sleep during the day. Sedative and hypnotic drugs: Zolpidem, dextrozopiclone and other drugs with short half-life can be selected. It can improve the alertness of night shift and reduce excessive drowsiness at work. Commonly used are modafinil and caffeine. Because everyone's sleep mode and shift type are different, the general combined application effect is better, and the treatment scheme should be selected reasonably according to individual differences. If you are a shift worker, knowing this knowledge, you can sleep out the high-quality life you expect!

After a long shift, there will be sleep rhythm disorder, difficulty falling asleep during rest, insomnia or fatigue during activities. With the growth of age, these clinical manifestations become more and more obvious, and many friends who work night shifts all the year round will give feedback. With the increase of age or the extension of shift working hours, it will become more and more difficult to get enough sleep supplement during the day. Many people go home after the night shift, but they are always tossing and turning, unable to sleep for a long time, and often wake up soon. Make full and reasonable use of dimming. For example, when working at night, you can use fluorescent lamps to improve the light in the working environment and try to avoid working in a dim environment; In addition to keeping the rest environment quiet after night shift, you can also use dark curtains to create a dark environment conducive to sleep. Keep the pace of life after night shift. Don't fall asleep after night shift. Instead, simply eat, wash comfortably, and do some normal bedtime activities, such as walking or exercising after dinner, reading or talking with family or playing with children. Don't go to bed until you are sleepy.