is happening to you?

You wake up one morning and find that chocolate bar wrappers for all of your kitchen. In addition, stomach and see that you had chocolate stains all over her face and hands. Your parents or your husband tells you that you eat all night long, but surprisingly, you do not forget that you have done. Your parents or your husband seemed to seriously say that you actually ate all the chocolates. Is it a joke?

Probably not, indeed show the symptoms, you probably have a night eating syndrome.

Night eating syndrome, also known as sleeping is eating, is considered by doctors as a parasomnia. This is not a frequent sleepwalking type. People with this disorder have experiences of recurrent eating episodes while asleep, without being aware that they actually do. This nocturnal eating syndrome occur, most of the time that it would show significant weight gain. Although the disease can affect people of all ages and sexes, it affects the food of young women sleep more than men.

What is night eating disorder?

aka nocturnal sleep eating disorder or NS-RED, night eating disorder Eating is strictly speaking not a problem. He is regarded as a kind of sleep disturbance, eating people, while seemingly asleep known possible. During sleep, they were able to eat in bed, or in some cases, roaming around the house or stay in the kitchen.

People with this disorder are not conscious during the episodes of the NS-RED. That is why night eating disorder is always related to sleepwalking. His sleep, they know not what they eat and I can not recall any incident eat the night before. If anything, remember it only in fragments. The episode NS-red is more or less in a state somewhere between sleeping and waking.

When people suffer from eating disorders experienced night that they have a problem, they feel ashamed and embarrassed. Some, even with evidence presented by family members, deny that what they did. You can not believe they could do that and can not admit to themselves that they could not control himself.

Food consumed during the disorder periods are most likely to avoid high sugar, fat, food that people usually when they are awake. In some cases, there are those who eat bizarre food combinations, such as raw ham with mayonnaise partnership or hot dogs dipped in peanut butter. Some even eat non-food items such as soap in the same way they piece of cheese.

How to NS-RED?

are about eight fifty-seven persons, about 1-3 percent of the total population will be affected most by the disease, with a maximum of 15 percent of which have eating disorders affected by night eating disorder According to recent statistics.

Many of those with the syndrome of food (or at least try)

affected during the day so that they are hungry and very weak to binge eating at night when their control to achieve weight loss weakened by sleep. Some people have medical histories of drug addiction, alcoholism and other sleep disorders like restless legs, sleep apnea and sleepwalking. They are often tired in the morning because of interrupted sleep. Many NS-RED cases seem to run along the lines of the family.

How can you eat and not to think to do?

Actually, that could really happen. Although research is ongoing on this disease that there is a high probability that parts of the brain, sleep like, even though parts of Stay Wide Awake. Sleep are also parties to govern your waking consciousness, it is not surprising that you do not remember me, memories of eating at food the night before.

NS-RED curable? What should you do if you?

thank God, treatment is available for your night eating disorder. The treatment begins with a medical call and spend a night or two at a nice sleep disorders center where brain activity can be monitored. Drugs are sometimes useful, but you should avoid taking sleeping pills because your sleep disorder by adding to the clumsiness and confusion upon waking and can aggravate the risk of injury to you that the regular use of these pills can.

Yes, it is the treatment. It begins with a clinical interview and one or two nights in a sleep disorders center where brain activity monitored. Sometimes medications are helpful, but sleeping pills should be avoided. You can make things worse by increasing confusion and clumsiness that can lead to injuries. Regular use of sleeping pills, you too can lead to dependence. It would be better if you ask a doctor to take what medication.


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