The health care provider will then prescribe treatment. There are many prescription medications which can irradicate the symptoms. The treatment goal is prevention of symptoms. Adequate treatment may also prevent progression to esophagitis or esophageal stricture and such complications as laryngitis, chronic cough and lung problems. Questions regarding heartburn and other health problems may be addressed to Student Health Center personnel 784-6598.
Insomnia is the inability to sleep, or to sleep satisfactorily.
The most common of the sleep disorders, insomnia may be caused by medical, psychological, pharmochologic and environmental factors. It may be a transient or chronic problem with varying effects on life. Sleep is necessary to human physical and emotional well-being. What happens in sleep that makes it beneficial is unknown. The mechanism that induces sleep is also unknown.