Shift Work Sleep DisorderSide Effects of Shift Work Sleep DisorderShift work sleep disorder patients are often perplexed when they find that after spending all night fighting to stay awake, they can’t fall asleep when they finally get home.
Shift work sleep disorder is characterized by insomnia and daytime fatigue, due to a persistent work schedule that overlaps with a person's typical sleep time.In shift work disorder, the person continually struggles to remain awake during his night shift and to sleep during the day. If his internal biological clock does not shift with the work schedule, he remains in a perpetual state of imbalance. This state of imbalance appear mostly in night shift, which can be dangerous, and excessive sleepiness on the job contributes further to this hazard.Early morning shift workers may have short schedules of sleep at night associated with early morning shift start times, and this may exhibit excessive sleepiness as well.
A person whose sleep schedule is irregular, does not have normal signals to reset his clock each day and keep things running smoothly. This may help to explain why disturbances of digestive system and headaches are more common in people who do shift work. Sleep deprivated people also may become irritable and disoriented, and may have dreamlike hallucinations. They suffer a gradual loss of ability to concentrate.Nine hours of sleep are needed, consistently every night, for reaction time of your movements to be at its best.
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