Blog Posts 1–5, based on the United States of America Department of the Army Field Manual: Holistic Healing and Fitness, describe what really matters for your child’s sleep. If sleep is an important enough topic for national defense than surely sleep should be considered a serious topic for parenting!
Sleep Deficiency Causes Brain Damage Just as Other Deficiencies Cause Other Diseases
Many deficiencies cause diseases. Here is a list of deficiencies and their associated diseases. Often, these deficiencies affect the brain causing neurological symptoms (shown in italics).
| Deficiencies | Diseases |
| Oxygen Water Calories |
‘Hypoxia’: Shortness of breath, rapid breathing, confusion ‘Dehydration’: Confusion, kidney damage ‘Marasmus’: Weight loss, stunted growth |
| Sugar Carbohydrate Fat Protein |
‘Hypoglycemia’: Racing heart, anxiety, confusion, dizziness
Headache, fatigue, weakness Dry skin, hair loss ‘Kwashiorkor’: Weakness, fluid retention |
| Iron Iodine Calcium, Sunshine, Vitamin D |
‘Anemia’: Weakness, fatigue, headache, dizziness
‘Goiter’: Swollen thyroid ‘Rickets’: Weak & soft bones |
| Vitamin B1 (thiamine) symptoms Vitamin B3 (niacin) Vitamin B12 Vitamin C |
‘Beriberi’: Leg swelling, shortness of breath, neurological ‘Pellagra’: Diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia ‘Pernicious Anemia’: Weakness, neurological symptoms ‘Scurvy’: Bleeding gums, loose teeth |
| Insulin Thyroxine Body Temperature |
‘Diabetes’: Weight loss, nerve disease
‘Hypothyroidism’: Short stature, brain damage ‘Hypothermia’ |
| SLEEP |
‘THERE IS NO MEDICAL TERM FOR ‘SLEEP DEFICIENCY’.
Instead, phrases such as sleep-deprivation, drowsiness, sleepiness, or feeling tired are used to describe the brain fog from insufficient or impaired sleep that diminishes the sensation of alertness. Insomnia is the term used to describe difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, not lack of sleep. Perhaps there is no specific name for sleep deficiency because we have no easy objective way of measuring it as we do for many of the other items listed under ‘Deficiencies’. |
