How does affect our organism the time change? Tips of the SEN to adapt more fast
in the early hours of Saturday to Sunday our clock ahead one hour
-our body is more difficult to adapt when it feels that has lost ” an hour than when the WINS. For this reason, this time change entails more difficulties of adaptation.
-people older or those who suffer from headaches, epilepsy or sleep disorders, the hardest with the change of time.
-fractionation time difference which affected our food and sleep schedules, gradually advancing our routines the previous days, the best way to adapt us.
– even if the change of schedule means certain imbalances in our body, in the long run, our performance is enhanced when we adjust our activity with the sunlight times.
Spain, March 2012.- This weekend our clocks are advanced one hour to adapt to DST, a custom in Spain held since 1918, although unevenly and with punctual revocation. The Sociedad Española de NeurologÃa (SEN) recalls that in the days after schedule changes it is common that appear certain motivated disorders of the mismatch between our biological clock and real time.
Usual although not all people have difficulties to adapt, be required between one and five days to our biological clock adjust to the new situation ”, points out Dr. Carlos Tejero Juste, vowel from the Spanish Neurology Society (SEN). the sensation is similar to what happens to us when we travel through different time zones, to jet-lag, with the difference that, in this case, it is only one hour of difference, disorders are less intense. Just as in travel, us is easier to accommodate us in those countries where the travel time we won. Thus, we could say that change of winter to the summer schedule, as on this occasion, and where our biological clock ‘ lost ’ an hour, entails more difficulties of adaptation ”.
Young, healthy people may experience feeling of tiredness, sleepiness, some disorientation or bewilderment, lack of concentration, energy, difficulty sleeping, … however, people older or those suffering from a neurological disorder such as headaches, epilepsy or sleep disorders may be more disadvantaged. All those people that well because of their age or by suffering any pathology, must rest in a way appropriate for well found the next day are that most disturbs the change of schedule ”, explains Dr. Carlos Tejero. Everyone should do it, but especially for them, it is advisable to take measures enabling them to adapt progressively to the change of schedule ”.
Some of the measures they can take to adapt would be:
-fractionation time difference which affected our hours of food and sleep, advancing the days prior our 15 minutes form routines progressive.
-avoid NAPs daytime to get more sleep for the night.
-try to bring a regular in amidst both feeding scheduleor, at least during the first days.
-adjust the clock as soon as possible. The right thing would be to just before going to sleep that we raise with the appropriate schedule.
What is not advisable is to use drugs or natural remedies as much as we believe that you can help us in adapting to change. It must be addressed in a progressive and natural way ”, says Dr. Carlos Tejero.
In any case, should take into account that the healthy population, the consequences of the change of schedule are transient and mild and it usually isn’t very different from the feeling that occurs when the Monday we joined labour, after the weekend have distorted our schedule. In addition, even if the change of schedule means certain imbalances in our body, in the long term, and to harmonize our activity with the times of sunlight is also improved our performance ”, concludes Dr. Carlos Tejero.
