Symptoms of night terrors

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Many children have the symptoms of night terrors. When they sleep well, they suddenly start crying. If their children can't sleep well, their parents have to follow them at night. Poor sleep will naturally affect the growth and development of children. Many parents also want to know why their children have night terrors. Today we talk about the symptoms of night terrors.

Symptoms of night terrors

Children in sleep suddenly scream, cry, accompanied by panic expression and action, two eyes, hand and foot movements, heart rate, shortness of breath, sweating, pupil dilation and other autonomic nervous excitement. Usually in the night sleep within a short period of time, each attack lasts about 1 to 10 minutes. It's hard to wake up. At that time, consciousness was in a hazy state. Wake up conscious and disorientation, can't say the dream content, can't recall the attack.

The patient wakes up from sleep with a repeated scream, accompanied by intense anxiety, body movement and autonomic nerve hyperfunction (such as tachycardia, shortness of breath and sweating). Lack of response to other people's attempts to quell night terrors, followed by disorientation and sustained movements for at least a few minutes. After forgetting, even if can recall, also extremely limited. It is necessary to exclude the secondary night terrors caused by organic diseases (such as dementia, brain tumor, epilepsy, etc.), as well as febrile convulsions and seizures.

Arrange children's life regularly to avoid overwork and excitement during the day. Before going to bed, do not tell stories of tension and excitement, do not watch movies of thrill and fear, and do not coax children to sleep in a threatening way. Before going to bed, let children fully relax and fall asleep in a relaxed and happy mood. Some benzodiazepines can also be used when necessary.

matters needing attention

In order to avoid night terrors, parents should also pay attention to give their children more calcium. The treatments mentioned above are also preventive. Generally speaking, if it's not night terrors caused by diseases, children will heal themselves greatly. Parents and friends should not worry too much.