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Sleepwalking is a disorder that can affect people of any age. It mostly occurs when an individual awakes suddenly from Slow Wave Sleep (SWS or sometimes referred to as “deep sleep”), causing the sleepwalking episode. In children and young adults, up to 25% of the night is spent in SWS. However this decreases as the person ages. For this reason, children and young adults (or anyone else with a high amount of SWS), are more likely to be woken up and, for the same reasons, they are witnessed to have many more episodes than the older individuals.
In children, the cause of sleepwalking is usually unknown but could be related to fatigue, prior sleep loss, or anxiety. In adults, sleep walking is usually associated with a disorder of the mind but may also be seen with reactions to drugs and/or medications and alcohol, and medical conditions such as partial complex seizures. In the elderly, sleep walking may be a symptom of an organic brain syndrome or REM (Rapid Eye Movement) behavior disorders.
The sleep walking activity may include simply sitting up and appearing awake while actually asleep, getting up and walking around, or complex activities such as moving furniture, dressing and undressing, going to the bathroom and similar activities. Some individuals have even been known to drive a car while actually asleep. The episode can be very brief (a few seconds or minutes) or can last for 30 minutes or longer.
One common misconception is that a sleep walker should not be awakened. It has not been known to awake a sleep walker although it is common for the person to be confused or disoriented for a short time on awakening. Another misconception is that a person cannot be injured when sleep walking. many injuries can occur when sleepwalking most common is loss of balance of tripping over objects.
Reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking. It is more common in children than in adolescents and adults. Boys are more likely to sleepwalk than girls. Sleepwalking can have a genetic tendency. If an individual begins to sleepwalk at a young age, it often lasts into later life.
The treatment for sleepwalking can be treated with medication, but hypnosis has also proven to be successful solution on a short-term basis.
An important component in dealing with this disorder is to make the environment as safe as possible, such as having sleepwalker’s bedroom on the ground floor, removing hazardous items from the house, locking all windows and placing an alarm system on the bedroom door.
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