Many film and television works have a description of sleepwalking, and even have a 'sleepwalking' art. The art comes from life, in fact, there are many people in life get up in the dead of night to do something unusual, dull, or even Shampoo bath, go out chaotic swing, but no memory of wake up during the day ...... So, sleepwalking can use modern medicine to explain it? Sleepwalking in the end can not wake up?
Medicine is really 'sleepwalking'
Folk known as sleepwalking, the medical term is called sleepwalking (sleepwalking). As its name implies, it refers to a series of complex behaviors that occur during sleep, accompanied by activity, and the meaning of 'activity' is broad, either simple Start up in bed, you can also walk around.
Nasal recurrent disease occurs frequently in children who have just learned to walk, and can also occur in adults, but the peak incidence is concentrated in 4-8 years of age, the prevalence of this age range of 10% -20% .In general, Disappeared in adolescence, but about one-third of patients still have seizures after the age of 16. The vast majority of adult patients with narcolepsy had episodes during childhood.
Do not try to wake the sleepwalker
Yes, sleepwalking really can not wake up.Although patients with narcolepsy during the attack is not easy to be awakened, but once awakened, can lead to mental disorders.
What to do best for sleepwalking
1, do not wake up sleepwalker can sleep on their own back to bed, you only need to be dangerous in patients with a gentle, gently lead to bed to sleep just fine.
2, sleep environment to be safe .Sephaline patients bedroom to be on the first floor, sleep in the bunk .At the same time pay attention to close the windows and doors, there have been sleepwalker tried to go out and jump window behavior. , To avoid sleepwalking mistakes themselves.
3, prevention of predisposing factors. Preventive measures, high incidence of children aged 4-8 years old understand, they are not aware of the existence of the disease, parents should be patient and appease .At the same time pay attention to control their way of life, such as regular rest, Adequate sleep; to ease the mood to avoid anxiety; more care when they have a fever or go outside.
4, narcolepsy is one of the sleep disorders in the abnormal sleep.In the majority of adolescents under 14 years of travel mostly with psychological factors, brain development is not completely related, as long as there is no dangerous behavior, you can temporarily observe without medication. Adults, especially the elderly, sleepwalking, may prompt the existence of other diseases, the best to the hospital sleep medicine center to do EEG, sleep monitoring and other checks, excluding organic diseases such as epilepsy.
