Can People Eat While They Are Asleep?
Most Montrealers complain they do not get enough sleep. Yet, sleep affects are physical and mental health. Not having enough sleep affects our mood, our stamina, our home-life and career, and our social relationships.
Sleep is an important human function which is essential for good physical health and good mental health. Even though sleep is so important many Montrealers take sleeping for granted. They either sleep too much or more often than not, sleep less than is recommended for good health. Montrealers will catnap rather than sleep, burn the midnight oil studying, play on the computer, or just insist that they are too busy too sleep.
Conditions that affect sleep, our health, and mental health include such topics as nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder known as sleep eating. For help in the Montreal area for sleep disorders in Montreal click here:
Mount Sinai Hospital Sleep Center
Sleep Eating Syndrome: Causes and Treatment
Sleep eating is a parasomnia, which is a sleep disorder. It also goes by the names: sleep-eating syndrome, nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED) and sleep-related eating (disorder). Some doctors consider it to be part of the sleepwalking disorder as the sufferers of this sleep eating disorder often binge eat (compulsive hyperphagia) during sleepwalking. Though this condition is rare, it is gaining notoriety in the area of sleep medicine. The situation can become dangerous if people are cooking while they are actually sleeping.
Symptoms of sleep eating
- Daytime drowsiness
- Binge eating
- Emotionally distressed
- Weight gain - people suffering with nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder (NS-RED) tend to eat very fatty and sugary foods such as: chips, cakes, cookies and other foods that can easily be shoved in the mouth. However, they can fry a quick egg or piece of meat.
- Wandering all over the house while dreaming, using cooking with knifes and other dangers that can injury themselves or set the kitchen on fire.
- Slow reaction time
- Difficulty in waking up during episodes even after others have tried several times to wake them up
- No memory of the incident after becoming fully awake
- No memory of dreams
Sources:
http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/sleep-disorders/archives/parasomnias_sleepeating.htm
Published by Carol Roach
Carol Roach holds a masters in counselling psychology. She worked as a therapist at the Douglas Hospital in Montreal before becoming a professional writer.Carol is the author of the book Picking Up The Piece... View profile
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