Consider This If You Want To Stay Up Late On New Years

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JAKARTA - Are you among those who gave up several hours of sleep on New Year's Eve to stay up late? If so, remember that staying up late or sleeping very late can disrupt the body's natural sleep and wake cycle.

The short-term result can interfere with your mood and focus on the next day. No need to be surprised if you feel irritated and tired.

Even so, according to public health service providers in the UK (NHS) if you stay up only once is not going to harm your health.

Raman Maholtra, assistant professor of neurology at Washington University School of Medicine and a doctor who focuses on sleep medicine, shared the same opinion.

He, as quoted by Antara from Insider, Thursday said the adverse health effects of one sleepless night can usually be mediated if you get more consistent sleep over the next few nights.

Generally, adults need at least 6-7 hours of sleep a night. If you stay up late and the next day you have a day off, then you can add an extra 1-2 hours of sleep the following night until the sleep debt is paid off, as disclosed by general practitioner of Pondok Indah Hospital - Pondok Indah, I Made Tirta Saputra.

The NHS also suggested something similar. If you are not getting enough sleep, there is only one way to compensate - getting more sleep.

The way to do this, go to bed when you are tired, and let your body wake up in the morning without an alarm. Tirta said, the body needs time to adapt so that later it can wake up normally.

You can also try to make up for lost sleep the next day by taking a nap and going to bed earlier than usual.

But the problem is if you have to come to work the next day. "If you don't sleep until 2 or 3 a.m. and you have to work at 9 o'clock, you are not going to get the good quality sleep you should," says sleep medicine expert and assistant professor of medicine, pulmonary and critical care at the Icahn School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Health System, Andrew Varga as quoted from Health.

Furthermore, if you keep staying up late for example for several weeks or months, be prepared to face the risk of developing more serious medical conditions such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes.