Did you sleep well last night? Staying up late is more dangerous than you think

“It’s good to stay up all night, stay up all night and be good all the time” After a busy day, I lay on the bed after taking a shower, holding myself ‘s mobile phone, and the time flickered until the early morning. As a result, I woke up the next morning with a sallow complexion and a face of “staying up late acne”… But the harm of staying up late is far more than just ugly, and it can also cause memory loss, indigestion, unresponsiveness, and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. tuberculosis due to weakened immunity.

The 26-year-old Ms. Feng is a freelancer with a very irregular work and rest schedule, and she is well versed in the “essence” of staying up late. In the past two months, because of the renovation of Zhang Luo’s new store, I stayed up until 2 or 3 o’clock every day, and sometimes even stayed up all night.

A month ago, Ms. Feng developed symptoms of coughing and coughing up white sticky phlegm. She thought it was caused by a cold, so she took the cold medicine by herself. A few days later, she found that the cough became worse and worse. After seeking medical treatment at a hospital near her residence, the test results showed that she had tuberculosis. In order to seek further diagnosis and treatment, Ms. Feng came to the third department of Hunan Provincial Chest Hospital for treatment.

After being admitted to the hospital, the medical and nursing team of the Internal Medicine Department formulated a personalized treatment plan for her condition. After a period of anti-tuberculosis treatment, Ms. Feng’s cough and sputum symptoms improved significantly.

Physician Answers

“Doctor, how can staying up late lead to tuberculosis? ” Facing the fact that she had tuberculosis, Ms. Feng was very puzzled.

Staying up late for a long time will weaken the body’s immunity and lead to the invasion of various diseases. On April 27, Liang Zhen, director of the Third Department of Internal Medicine, said that Mycobacterium tuberculosis is ubiquitous in our living environment. You are susceptible to tuberculosis infection.

Liang Zhen introduced that staying up late will not only lead to lack of energy, general weakness, fatigue, etc., but also prone to repeated colds, and irregular work and rest for a long time will lead to the function of the biological clock. Disorders can cause insomnia, and staying up late will also lead to a decrease in sleep quality, which will cause endocrine disorders in the human body, and easily induce high blood pressure, diabetes, tuberculosis, etc. For beauty lovers, staying up late will also cause dry skin and poor elasticity.

“In our daily life, we must develop good work and rest rules and living habits, exercise properly, and improve immunity.” Liang Zhen said that if people who stay up late have a cough If the expectoration of sputum exceeds 2 weeks after anti-infective treatment and does not improve, you must go to a regular hospital for tuberculosis screening.

Pulmonary tuberculosis is preventable and curable. As long as you actively cooperate with doctors to treat it, more than 90% of it can be cured, and after standard treatment, it will not be contagious.

Author: Lei Min Chen Yanan

Picture: Lei Min

Editor in charge: Tang Xionglue

Produced by: Hunan Provincial Chest Hospital