Sleep Paralysis
What is Sleep Paralysis?
Sleep paralysis is generally a type of parasomnia or
maybe Sleep disturbance, it occurs when you are sleeping or even awake from
sleeping. Sleep paralysis occurs when you cannot move o speak as you falling to
sleep or wake from sleep.
Sleep paralysis is not harmed to physical health, most of the peoples are afraid of it because they don't know what is happening to them and in a couple of seconds they continue to normal position.
Sleep paralysis happens basically two times, one is
when you are falling to sleep, it’s called predormital sleep paralysis and when
it happens after waking up it’s called postdormital sleep paralysis.
During sleep, our body passes through two stages of
sleep the one is NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) and the other is REM (Rapid Eye Movement)
. In the first stage of sleep (NREM) our body relaxed and restore itself, NREM
stage takes 75% of our sleep while completing the first stage the NREM change to
REM which duration is last 30 to 90 minutes of our sleep, during this stage our
eyes move quickly and the dreams occur but the body remains.
Our muscles are temporary paralyze during the REM stage,
when you awake before finishing of REM stage you may notice that you cannot
speak and move because your brain is active and the rest of the body remained
relaxed and in sleep mood, as a result, you cannot move and speak.
Causes of Sleep Paralysis:
One of the most common and main cause of sleep
paralysis is lack of sleep and sleep disturbance, change in the schedule of sleep
and sleeping on the backside is also the cause of sleep paralysis.
Sleep paralysis also happen during medical
conditions like migraine, mental and psychological problems.
Depression, anxiety and eating disorder is also caused sleep paralysis.
Other causes of sleep paralysis may include:
Ø Taking
medicine continuously
Ø Stress
Ø Taking
drugs and alcohol
Ø Panic
disorder
Ø
Insomnia
Treatment of sleep paralysis:
Sleep paralysis is not generally a medical problem
therefore no medical treatment is necessary for the treatment of sleep paralysis.
Here are some
tips which can help to prevent sleep Paralysis:
Ø Improve
your sleeping habit; try to get 6 to 8 hours of sleep.
Ø Avoid
drinking alcohol and other caffeinated drinks before bedtime.
Ø Don’t
sleep on your backside.
Ø Take
exercise regularly.
Ø Do not eat a heavy meal before going to bed.
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