What are the causes of sudden twitching during sleep?

When sleeping, due to some reasons of our body, there may be some factors that are not conducive to sleeping. Often, you are awakened by a sudden tremor of your leg muscles in your sleep. If this symptom happens only occasionally, it may not be a big deal, but if it happens often, then you should pay attention. This is likely that your body lacks some elements needed for our normal growth activities. Of course, we don’t need to panic when this happens. As long as we can treat it correctly, there will be no big problems. However, in order for us to have a good sleep, we need to pay more attention to it at ordinary times. Don’t do something very stimulating before going to bed, which will affect our nervous excitement.

1. Reasons

There are many reasons for unconscious twitching during sleep, which are commonly seen in acute pancreatitis, parathyroid dysfunction, long-term intestinal fistula, gallbladder fistula, etc. The reasons can be summarized as follows:

1. When a person is under great mental stress, the nerves in the brain are in a tense state, which may cause convulsions.

2. The human body loses a large amount of calcium, and calcium deficiency causes convulsions.

3. Lack of exercise and poor physical fitness are also causes of convulsions.

4. Some people have latent epilepsy, which manifests itself more obviously when they are unconscious.

5. Muscle tension caused by exercise or some other reason before going to bed. After falling asleep, the muscles begin to relax, which can also cause convulsions.

2. Inspection

Sometimes when sleeping, there seems to be a sign that the whole body (legs) suddenly convulse and wake up, spontaneously, without external interference. Serum calcium is less than 2mmol/L, and serum magnesium is less than 0.75mmol/L.

When falling asleep, the motor commands connecting the brain and lower limbs are very weak. This phenomenon is the result of conditioned reflex commands between the spinal cord and lower limbs causing a misoperation. One in five adult women has experienced this. It often occurs in women with anemia, kidney problems or pregnant women.

3. Differential diagnosis

If you are awakened several times during sleep by twitching of your lower limbs and have difficulty sleeping, this is myoclonus syndrome. In this case, you need to see a doctor for reflex-inhibiting medication.

Many people have experienced calf cramps during sleep at night. Calf cramps are actually caused by abnormal neuromuscular excitement, which causes leg muscles or muscle groups to spasm. At this time, the tensile strength of the muscle bundle is significantly greater than the tensile strength of the muscle bundle during normal muscle contraction. Therefore, calf cramps will cause soreness or more severe pain. Generally, the attack can last for several seconds or tens of seconds.

Cramp is a common name for twitching, which is a manifestation of temporary brain dysfunction. The movement of human muscles is controlled by the brain. When the brain cells that manage muscle movement are temporarily overexcited, uncontrollable muscle movement will occur. It can be limited to a certain group of muscles or one side of the body, or spread to the whole body, which is called cramp.

Sometimes when I am sleeping, there seems to be a sign that my whole body (legs) will suddenly twitch and I will wake up. It is a spontaneous twitch without any external interference.

When falling asleep, the motor commands connecting the brain and lower limbs are very weak. This phenomenon is the result of conditioned reflex commands between the spinal cord and lower limbs causing a misoperation. One in five adult women has experienced this. It often occurs in women with anemia, kidney problems or pregnant women.

4. Relief Methods

It is advisable to use Chinese Angelica, Astragalus, Dragon Bone, Mother of Pearl, Uncaria rhynchophylla, Codonopsis pilosula and other medicines to replenish Qi and blood, calm the liver and soothe nerves.

Eat more vegetables and fruits, milk, and soy products that are rich in calcium. Avoid eating fried and greasy foods, such as fried dough sticks, cream, butter, chocolate, etc. Pay attention to rest, work and rest, and live an orderly life. Maintaining an optimistic, positive, and positive attitude towards life is very helpful in preventing diseases. You can also get more sun when you have time, which can help calcium absorption. If you have a seizure again at night, get up and step on the ground, and you will get better soon.

From this we can see that there are so many reasons for such symptoms. As long as we can look at them correctly and deal with them correctly, it is not a big deal.