Children’s night terrors
Children's night terrors
Usually nightmares are often confused with night terrors. Importantly, the nightmares have different symptoms than night terrors, and therefore are not the same, although both are included in what are sleep disorders.
Night terrors are less common in children nightmares, but they also have high incidence.
Night terrors are less common than nightmares, and during episodes of terror is common that the child feels suddenly in bed screaming and crying, feeling so much fear and anxiety. Not easily aroused, and when we do notice that the child is confused and disoriented, with a sense of fear, but not remember the dream and have not yet fully awakened back to sleep immediately.
The next day this child will not remember anything of what happened last night.
These episodes may be triggered and sustained by emotional stress, fatigue or a recent traumatic event such as hospitalization, separation from a parent, death of a loved one, etc.. Usually occur in children aged between 4 and 12 years. They usually appear in the first half of the night.
To achieve control this condition the first thing to do is to differentiate it from the nightmares, as both occur in the context of what is sleep. Night terrors usually disappear over time without having to specify the child a drug treatment, except where these terrorists are given too often or intensity and constitute a problem for the child. These cases are determined by the pediatrician and he shall prescribe a drug.
In mild cases that most parents are all you have to do is check that the child does not fall out of bed or suffer physical damage, and thereby let the episode run its normal course, without speaking, or waking, but under our vigilance.