Reasons and treatment of sleepwalking

Reasons and treatment of sleepwalking

Sleepwalking – quite strange frustration which affects about 14% of children until they do not become teenagers. About a quarter from these children for the life tests sleepwalking attacks more than once.

Frustration in a brain and sleep disorders of the child are the main reasons of sleepwalking. It is not terrible. Usually, when the person wakes up, his brain and a body wake up together with him. But here with sleepwalkers all not so. At sleepwalkers during an attack the body and a part of a brain wakes up, but the most part of his brain remains in the sleeping state.

When the child starts walking in a dream, his eyes are open, and his face is passionless. He can see, but, at the same time, he will stumble about objects and to face various things. As a rule, he will not respond on the name, and will not hear your voice. Sleepwalking attacks during the first couple of hours of a dream are most often widespread. These attacks can last of fifteen minutes and till two o'clock. Sometimes, that the sleepwalker can put on clothes and to leave the apartment.

Most reasonable in such situations to bring this matter to the doctor, but not to hope for doors, windows, locks or even to prevent the child to go. Remember that children cannot be frightened or interfered with it because it can lead to complications. Children, as a rule, grow up from such state. The most important that needs to be made at sleepwalking, it is quiet, without awaking the child, to bring it to a bed and to lay as much as possible softly.

Besides, adults have sleepwalking too. But it is much less of them – less than one percent. At adults sleepwalking is shown as a result of stresses, concerns, epilepsy or insomnia. If to remove the cause, then and sleepwalking will disappear too. Usually at treatment of sleepwalking the hypnosis is applied.

Beyond all doubt, there are many the most various methods of treatment of the people having sleepwalking. The most important at attacks of sleepwalking is to remove those objects with which the sleepwalker can pierce to himself an eye or put any mutilations. Besides, it is necessary to block locks, doors and windows.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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