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Sleepwalking

Sleepwalking: Introduction

Sleepwalking: Sleepwalking is a parasomnia or sleep disorder where the sufferer engages in activities that are normally associated with wakefulness while he or she is asleep or in a sleep-like state. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Sleepwalking is available below.

Symptoms of Sleepwalking

• Walking during sleep
• Tiredness
• Waking in a place different to where a person went to sleep
• It involves the person affected apparently shifting from his or her prior sleeping position and moving around and performing normal actions as if awake (cleaning, walking and other activities).
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Sleepwalking: Complications

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Medical Textbooks Online about Sleepwalking

Book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Wrongly Diagnosed with Sleepwalking?

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Misdiagnosis and Sleepwalking

RLS sleep disorder causing night-time leg sensations often misdiagnosed: A common but relatively unknown sleep-related disorder called Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) is often misdiagnosed. The typical symptoms are night-time tingling, crawling, or burning sensations in the legs, with the irresistable urge to move the legs. This need for leg movement leads to tossing and turning, or getting up out of bed, all of which interferes with the ability to fall asleep. The sufferer then has the typical symptoms of sleep deprivation during the day: fatigue, tiredness, morning headaches, irritability, poor concentration and so on. This condition is sometimes misdiagnosed as other conditions such as ADHD, sleep disorders, other causes of insomnia, or other causes of leg tingling. Many patients also suffer from a related disorder called Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), which causes leg spasms or other jerky movements. See introduction to RLS or introduction to PLMD....read more »

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Causes of Sleepwalking

• Alcohol consumption (see Alcohol use)
• Sleep debt
• Sleep deprivation
• Anxiety (type of Neurosis)
• Gelineau's syndrome - sleep walking
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More information about causes of Sleepwalking:

• Underlying causes of Sleepwalking
• Sleepwalking as a symptom

Treatments for Sleepwalking

• Don't wake the person - some sources advise not to wake the sleepwalker.
• Wake the person gently - some sources advise waking and call the other advice a "myth".
• Ensure they do not hurt themselves
• Take child back to bed once awake
• Hypnotherapy
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Definitions of Sleepwalking:

Walking by a person who is asleep - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

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