European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Toyo up health shift workers Short on sleep associated press or those who work at night and sleep during the Day. Struggling to fall asleep can be a disaster according to a doctor who treats people or sleep disorders. The length and Quality of their sleep is almost never As Good As that of the Day workers who sleep at night said or. James Shipley director of the sleep depression unit of the University of Michigan medical Center s sleep disorders Center. It s been said that no one has adequately adapted to working the night shift and sleeping the a shift he said. According to the Bureau of labor statistics Aboul 3 percent of the work Force regularly prepares for bed while the rest of the nation takes its first sip of morning Coffee. Another 1 percent work split or rotating shills which often include Midnight hours. Among those commonly working the graveyard shift Are police officers cab Drivers nurses Telephone operators and factory workers. They live something of a Jekyll and Hyde existence researchers Nole. Afler sleeping Days and working nights for live Days each week on weekends to be with family and friends they slay up Days and sleep nights. Suft shifting creates havoc for their Well being says Shipley who explains they re not Able to get into a routine so sleep is always in Short the physician recommends Day steeper follow the same sleep Hygiene As night sleepers. They should keep regular hours Shipley suggests. Their sleeping situation should be secure it should be a quiet place with comfortable temperature and it should be reserved Tor sleep not for to or balancing the if an empty stomach keeps them awake a Light snack should be eaten. Ii Steep is elusive after 15 minutes the would be Sleeper should get up and do something Boring. I read a physics textbook when i have rouble falling asleep Shipley noles. According to some Lurn Ilure designers part of Good sleep Hygiene is a mattress with no sags or lumps that is neither too soft nor Overly turn. What you sleep on helps to contribute to or detract from the Goa of a Rosl Ful Sloop says Marian Arlinger an Interior and furniture designer who also is a consultant to Arco chemical co. Which produces chemicals used to make Holyur Culhane foam for the bedding Industry. Both innerspring and All foam mattresses Are made Wilh polyurethane Loam Arlinger adds noting that Laboratory tests indicate a Loam a Cisily of at Leas 1 8 pounds per cubic fool is needed to give the needed support. Only recently have studios been focused on the Midnight shift worker s sleep problems according to Shipley who says business and Industry ate beginning to take Nole. Modern Man has invented artificial ways of falling asleep he says and shill workers can tall prey to sleeping pills or alcohol More easily than night sleepers. Eventually to adds Many shill workers give up the Odd hours Tor a More regular routine or walk around Grumpy syphilis on the Rise by Robert Pear new York times ederal and state officials report a dramatic increase in syphilis that is concentrated among minority heterosexual men and women in a few Urban areas alarmed by the Steep Rise Many health experts have warned against adopting Reagan administration proposals for a Cut in the Federal budget Lor fighting sexually transmitted diseases other than aids. The experts Are also worried by the spread of penicillin resistant strains of gonorrhoea nationwide syphilis cases Are up 35 percent this year Over last year Wilh most of the increase occurring in poorer areas of some major cities. The Federal centers for disease control said recently that 25.514 cases of syphilis had been reported for the nation through sept. 26 of this year As against 16,886 Lor the corresponding period last year. Or. Willard Gates or. Director of the Agency s division of sexually transmitted diseases said in an interview syphilis has skyrocketed in selected metropolitan areas As has infection with strains of gonorrhoea resistant to penicillin. We have not seen increases of this magnitude in syphilis Lor 20 the number of syphilis cases has More than doubled in new York City has soared 97 percent in los Angeles county and has risen b6 percent in Florida according to state and local officials. Those three areas account for More than three fourths of the nation s total Rise in cases. Heterosexual women and men account Lor nearly All the increase Gates said Wilh the number of cases rising much Aster among Black and hispanic people than among Whites safer sex practices adopted by Many Gay men to avoid infection Wilh the aids virus have a so protected them against other sexually transmitted diseases officials said. Health official fear that the increase in syphilis among adults May presage a Rise in congenital syphilis among infants and a Rise in aids cases among heterosexual residents of poor inner City neighbourhoods. Cases director of the Federal program for control of venereal disease said the genital ulcers caused by syphilis appear to facilitate spread of the aids virus because the sores serve As a Portal of entry and egress for the studies in Africa found Hal people Wilh genital ulcers were More Likely to be infected with the aids areas with dramatic rises in reported cases Olathe venereal disease. . Figures from centers for disease control Are totals from january through late september. Local figures. From health departments Are totals from january through August. Total 25.514 new York City Loang a county Florid 16,886 virus he said. Thus according to the centers for disease control the increases in syphilis in this country maybe the forerunner of future increases in infection with the deadly aids virus the officials estimated thai Only so percent of gonorrhoea cases and Toper on to 80 percent of syphilis cases were reported to the authorities even though All slates require such reporting but they believe the increase in reported cases in elects a genuine increase in the total tuesday october 20. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 17
