Overview
- Clinicians report that late dinners, alcohol and irregular holiday schedules are disrupting sleep during the Christmas period, increasing next‑day fatigue and irritability.
- Spain’s pulmonology society SEPAR has launched its 2025–2026 initiative on sleep respiratory disorders to spotlight underdiagnosed conditions such as obstructive sleep apnea.
- SEPAR coordinator Carlos Egea warns that poor rest can worsen sleep‑related breathing problems, while specialists link sustained deficits to diabetes, obesity and higher accident risk.
- Experts note that alcohol may induce early drowsiness but fragments later sleep and aggravates snoring and apneas, with heavy meals and caffeine further degrading rest.
- Recommended steps include leaving 2–3 hours between dinner and bedtime, limiting alcohol, taking 20–30 minute naps, getting morning sunlight, reducing screens before bed and quickly returning to regular schedules after festivities.