What are the symptoms of neonatal night terrors

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Sleep is very important for children, but the occurrence of night terrors makes many children sleep uneasy at night, and parents have to coax them for half a day at night, which not only makes parents worry psychologically, but also makes them very tired physically. And understand the cause of baby night terrors, can effectively avoid the emergence of this situation, then, why do children night terrors?

What are the symptoms of neonatal night terrors

First: night terrors, also known as dream phobia or night palpitations, often occur within 30 minutes to 2 hours of falling asleep at night. They are more common in children aged 3 to 7 years old and occur once a month or several months. The sick child is often awakened by nightmares, suddenly sits up, eyes open or closed, yells and talks to himself, but others can't understand what he says.

Second: some children move their hands and feet disorderly, or jump out of bed, with nervous expression, fear, sweating, dilated pupils, shortness of breath, pale complexion, palpitations, and sometimes auditory hallucination, vision, unconsciousness, and disown of family members. Generally, the attack lasts for 1 to 10 minutes, and then continues to fall asleep.

Third: when the nightmare attacks, the sick child can not recall the situation at the time of attack; if it attacks before awakening, it may recall a sense of oppression, suffocation or suffocation. But most of the sick children are afraid of not being able to recall or just say what they had before they were fully awake.

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In general, night terrors are caused by some factors in the process of development and maturation, accounting for about 1% - 3% of normal children. They can disappear spontaneously in adulthood.