What causes sleepwalking?

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Somnambulism, commonly known as "obsessive disorder", refers to the sudden rise in sleep to carry out activities, and then sleep, wake up to the activities during sleep. In recent years, we all heard of sleepwalking when we were young. At that time, we were afraid that we would be surprised if we were not careful. In fact, laboratory research shows that both night terrors and sleepwalking are sleep disorders. Sleepwalking does not occur in dreams, but in the third to fourth stage of deep sleep, which is concentrated in the first half of the night. Therefore, nocturnal excursion usually occurs in the first 2-3 hours after falling asleep. Somnambulism mostly occurs in children (6-12 years old), can occur in any period of children, but 5-7 years old is the most common, lasting for several years, after entering adolescence can disappear. In childhood, 15% of children have somnambulism occasionally, and 1% - 6% have somnambulism frequently. There are more males than females. The incidence of somnambulism in the same family is high, which indicates that somnambulism is hereditary. Night terrors usually occur within half an hour after falling asleep, no more than 2 hours at the latest. The frequency of the disease is different. It can occur once every few days or dozens of days. Occasionally, it can occur several times overnight. What causes somnambulism? Let's talk about it now.

What causes sleepwalking?

Psychosocial factors the somnambulism of some children is related to psychosocial factors. Such as daily life disorder, environmental pressure, anxiety and fear; There are some relationships between somnambulism and family disharmony, poor parent-child relationship, nervous study and poor test results.

Sleep is too deep, because sleepwalking often occurs in the first 1 / 3 of the deep sleep period, so a variety of factors that make sleep deeper, such as overwork during the day, staying up late for several days to cause lack of sleep, taking sleeping drugs before going to bed, can induce the occurrence of sleepwalking.

The developmental factors of somnambulism mostly occurred in childhood, and gradually stopped with the growth of age, indicating that somnambulism may be related to the delayed development of cerebral cortex.

matters needing attention

Sleepwalking has no adverse effect on children's health, but parents must pay attention to strengthen protection to prevent accidents. Such as the room should not be placed dangerous goods, not fire, doors and windows to lock, etc. If it is found that the child with nocturnal excursion has walked out of the door, the parents can take the child home to make him go to bed and let him continue to sleep. Do not forcibly wake up the children with somnambulism attack, because forcibly wake up the children may make the children appear more serious consciousness fuzzy, excited restless state.