WAPT News – Sandee LaMotte
“Does your little one suffer from sleep terrors? Then get ready to lock the window and doors, because they might soon sleepwalk, too. A study of nearly 2,000 children in Quebec over a 12-year period found that as many as a third of the children who had early childhood sleep terrors became sleepwalkers later. “That’s interesting because it can help parents know that ‘Hey, if my little one has sleep terrors, and several of them, then perhaps he or she might be more at risk for sleepwalking when they are between the age of 10 and 13,” said Hansa Bhargava, a pediatrician with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. And if you were a sleepwalker in your childhood, then your child is likely to be one, too. The study, conducted by Montreal’s Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine and published in JAMA Pediatrics, found 47.4% of children with one sleepwalking parent took nighttime strolls. When both parents had a history of sleepwalking, the number rose to 61.5%.”(more)