The fragrance of this refreshing, gently-abrasive scrub made of lemon is mouth-watering, and can be a lovely way to start the week with zest! You need salt, which is one of the best antibacterial ingredients ever, and it is slightly abrasive. Lemon juice exfoliates as it cleans. Take 1/4 cup of sea salt and enough lemon juice to make a paste in a bowl. Dab gently on your face and massage on your face and rinse with warm water after a while.
For smooth, soft skin, wash your face every day with plain, organic yogurt or buttermilk. Use it as you would use ordinary cold cream. avoiding the eye area. It’s gentle enough for all skin types and as a bonus, it contains naturally occurring lactic acid. This acts as a mild exfoliant to remove dead-skin build-up.
What Are Night Terrors?
Most parents might have comforted their child after an occasional nightmare. But if you have ever experienced what’s known as a night terror (or sleep terror), your child’s fear was likely inconsolable no matter what you tried. During that time, a child might suddenly sit upright in bed and shout out or scream in distress. The child’s breathing and heartbeat might be faster, he or she might sweat, thrash around, and act upset and scared. After a few minutes, or sometimes longer, a child simply calms down and returns to sleep. This kind of situation is really like a terror for the parent.
A night terror is a sleep disruption that seems similar to a nightmare, but with a far more dramatic presentation. Though night terrors can be alarming for parents who witness them, they’re not typically cause for concern or a sign of a deeper medical issue.
Unlike nightmares, which kids often remember, kids won’t have any memory of a night terror the next day because they were in deep sleep when it happened and there are no mental images to recall.
Night terrors are sleep disturbances in which a child may suddenly bolt upright in bed, cry, scream, moan, mumble, and thrash about with his eyes wide open, but without being truly awake. Because he’s caught in a sort of a twilight zone between being asleep and being awake, he’s unaware of your presence and isn’t likely to respond to anything you say or do. In fact, researchers think of night terrors as mysterious glitches in the usually smooth transitions we make each night between sleep stages. As many as 15 percent of children have night terrors, typically beginning in the toddler and preschool years but sometimes starting later and continuing up to adolescence. An episode can last anywhere from two to 40 minutes, and when it’s over your child falls back to sleep abruptly with no memory of the incident.
In which phase of sleep Night Terrors occur?
During a typical night, sleep occurs in several stages. Each is associated with particular brain activity. Sleep is divided into 2 categories: rapid eye movement (REM) and nonrapid eye movement (non-REM). The rapid eye movement (REM) stage is the stage when most dreaming occurs.Non-REM sleep is further divided into 4 stages, progressing from stages 1-4. Night terrors occur during the transition from stage 3 non-REM sleep to stage 4 non-REM sleep, beginning approximately 90 minutes after the child falls asleep. This sleep transition is from deepest stage of non-REM sleep to lighter REM sleep. Usually this transition is a smooth one. But rarely, a child becomes agitated and frightened and that fear reaction is a night terror.
Night terrors usually occur 1/2 hour to 3 1/2 hours after falling asleep. During these episodes people are unaware of their surroundings and unresponsive to attempts to comfort them.
They may not calm down for 10 or 15 minutes, although they return to sleep quickly once the episode ends. Generally they do not remember what scared them, but rarely a person will retain a vague image of something terrifying. A few children and adults who experience night terrors will sleepwalk during the episode.
The sleep disorder of night terrors typically occurs in children aged 3-12 years, with a peak onset in children aged 3 ½ years. An estimated 1-6% of children experience night terrors. Boys and girls are equally affected. Children of all races also seem to be affected equally. The disorder usually resolves during adolescence.
How are night terrors different from nightmares?
Unlike a night terror, a nightmare leaves your child truly awake he can remember his dream and sometimes talk about it, and he’ll seek out and feel comforted by your presence. Also, kids have nightmares during dream (REM) sleep, often in the early morning hours between 2 and 6 a.m. They commonly have night terrors, on the other hand, in the first few hours of the night, during deep non-dream (non-REM) sleep.
The easiest way to tell the difference between a night terror and a nightmare is to ask yourself who’s more upset about it the next morning. If your child is more agitated, he had a nightmare. If parents are the one who’re disturbed, then the child probably had a night terror. The “terror” of a night terror lingers far longer in the parent who watched it than in the child who lived it.
What Causes Night Terrors?
Night terrors are caused by over-arousal of the central nervous system (CNS) during sleep. This may happen because the CNS (which regulates sleep and waking brain activity) is still maturing. Some kids may inherit a tendency for this over-arousal about 80% who have night terrors have a family member who also experienced them or sleepwalking (a similar type of sleep disturbance).
Night terrors have been noted in kids who are:
A child might have a single night terror or several before they cease altogether. Most of the time, night terrors simply disappear on their own as the nervous system matures.
In both adults and children, night terrors may be caused by unresolved psychological conflicts, traumatic events or fatigue. In children, traumas such as the loss of a favorite toy, overhearing a loud argument between parents, watching scenes of violence on television or listening to frightening stories could trigger a night terror.
Particularly among adults, prescription drugs such as antihistamines, decongestants, levodopa, reserpine, beta-blockers, and antidepressants, as well as withdrawal from addictive drugs, all can provoke sleep disturbance.
When to Seek Medical Care?
Sleep disruption is parents’ most frequent concern during the first years of a child’s life. Half of all children develop a disrupted sleep pattern serious enough to warrant physician assistance.
Understanding night terrors can reduce your worry and help you get a good night’s sleep yourself. But if night terrors happen repeatedly, talk to your doctor about whether a referral to a sleep specialist is needed.
In children younger than 3 ½ years, peak frequency of night terrors is at least 1 episode per week.
Among older children, peak frequency of night terrors is 1-2 episodes per month.
If your child seems to be experiencing night terrors, an evaluation by the child’s pediatrician may be useful. During this evaluation, the pediatrician may also be able to exclude other possible disorders that might cause night terrors.
How to Cope up With Night Terrors?
Night terrors can be very upsetting for parents, who might feel helpless at not being able to comfort or soothe their child. The best way to handle a night terror is to wait it out patiently and make sure the child doesn’t get hurt by thrashing around. Kids usually will settle down and return to sleep on their own in a few minutes.
Do not try to wake kids during a night terror. Attempts usually don’t work, and kids who do wake are likely to be disoriented and confused, and may take longer to settle down and go back to sleep. Don’t try to wake him. And expect that your efforts to comfort him will be rebuffed a child having a night terror really can’t be calmed down, and if you try to hold him it may make him wilder. Unless he’s in danger of hurting himself, don’t attempt to physically comfort him. Just speak calmly, put yourself between him and anything dangerous (the headboard of his bed, for instance), and wait for the storm to pass. Before you go to bed, take the same precautions you would for a sleepwalker, since children in the grip of a night terror often stumble out of bed:
There’s no treatment for night terrors, but you can help prevent them. Try to:
If your child has several night terrors, you can try to interrupt his/her sleep in order to prevent the night terror.
This scrub helps to get rid of the dirt and the superficial dead skin but it should not be used more than once a week and never on dry skin. Take leftover stale roti and dip it in some milk and a little honey. Make sure the honey is well dissolved in milk. Let the rotis soak up with milk-honey mix. Gently massage the thick paste so formed on your skin, particularly on and around the nose and the chin area; avoid applying around the eyes. Your skin will have a healthy glow like never before.
This easy-to-make formula will help to dissolve the ‘glue’ that binds dead skin cells, alloing them to fall away like autumn leaves, revealing the smooth, soft skin underneath. The secret is fresh alpha hydroxy fruit acid – in this case, from tomatoes and sugar. You need 1/4 cup of granulated sugar, chopped fresh tomato and 2 tablespoons of yogurt or sour cream. Place the sugar in a small bowl. Add enough freshly-chopped tomato to moisten, then add yogurt. Combine and apply on a clean, damp face, using fingertips to gently massage the formula into skin. Allow formula to remain on skin for 10 minutes, then rinse with warm water.