Informative Speech On Sleepwalking

Sleep is a dynamic process as our brains are active even during sleep. For normal functioning of all the systems of our body, sleep is very important. Sleep affects our physical and mental health. Our immune system has the ability to fight disease and endure sickness all due to the impact of good sleep that affects our immune system.

If you are deprived of sleep, you will see a decrease in your body temperature, in the release of growth hormones and a decrease in the functioning of your immune system function as measured by white blood cell count (the soldiers of the body).

What is Sleepwalking?

Sleepwalking is a complex yet interesting sleep disorder known as ‘Somnambulism’ or ‘Noctambulism’, and belongs to the parasomnia family.

Causes of

Symptoms of Sleepwalking:

Most people cannot tell when one is sleepwalking, but some of these symptoms are a good hint:

• Sleepwalkers make odd movements. May get up and seek out of a window

• They will get up and walk quietly but aimlessly around the room or house maybe talking or mumbling.

• May seem clumsy, dazed and fumble around objects.

• Eyes wide open with a glassy look to them.

• Sleepwalkers respond slowly with simple thoughts and may contain nonsense phraseology or absent responses when questioned what they are doing.

• Sleepwalking episodes may repeat behaviours over and over, and/or

• Having a temper tantrum, throwing objects.

Sleepwalking in Pregnant Women:

As many as 78% of women report more disturbed sleep during pregnancy than at other times. By their third trimester of pregnancy, 97% of women report sleep

When you are pregnant, hormones affect the structure of your sleep by altering the nature of your sleep, and you become tired due to various physical ailments that accompany your pregnancy causing you to have disturbed sleep.

Hormonal changes and fatigue during pregnancy can precipitate sleepwalking. It is presumed that when the body has to endure physiological or psychological stress, sleepwalking is quite likely to ensue, possibly concurring with the body's inability to get quality sleep.

Progesterone and estrogen hormonal levels are active during pregnancy and can decrease the amount of REM sleep. Studies have shown that melatonin levels too are higher during pregnancy, and increased levels of prolactin in the body may all lead to more delta or slow-wave sleep.

Sleepwalking consists of a series of complex behaviors that are initiated in non-REM slow wave sleep at the onset of your sleep cycle and result in walking during sleep. This sleep disorder occurring during pregnancy and exacerbated by this condition has been reported by many a pregnant