How To Avoid Nightmares!

I received this information from my sister - Imelda, a veterinarian by profession- who in turn got it from our cousin - Cora Borja who is a US-based pharmacist.

My cousin shared this healthy tip: never go thirsty when going to bed and be sure you have plenty of water during your 8-hour or more bedtime rest. She told that one of their pharmaceutical company's delivery driver died last week from nightmare or "bangungot" - leaving a housewife and 3 very young kids.

Her story reminds me of a tabloid news item I read a month ago about a male nurse of a private hospital who apparently died also due to nightmare. Nightmares are usually experienced by mid-age adults and young adults which caused them to die while sleeping. Many theories have been put forward as its cause. However, below are other related information which sheds some light to the cause of this malady.

The reported cause of young actor Rico Yan's death is nightmare after eating noodles for his supper. Medical investigators in China, Japan and several Asian countries who performed autopsies on persons who died from "acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis" found out that the majority of them had eaten NOODLES as their supper. This was a startling finding!

However, it wasn't the noodles that caused nightmares but dehydration. Imbibing even with a few drinks of alcohol or just eating noodles immediately before bedtime compound this on an empty stomach will trigger an electrolyte imbalance and other factors that causes a person to dehydrate or lose water.

It is therefore advisable for a person to take several glasses of water before bedtime if he had a few or several alcoholic drinks. Avoid eating noodles before bedtime, but if you cannot avoid it, always allow at least two hours for the body to digest the noodles before hitting the sack and drink plenty of water.

The most important thing is, never go thirsty when going to bed and be sure you have plenty of water during your 8-hour or more bedtime rest!