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Q: Son's Night Terrors are Upsetting me...what is wrong? what
asked by: DoctorQuestion on September 13th, 2006
My son is two years old. For the last week I have woke up to him crying loudly in his sleep. hen I go to him, he is tossing ang turning in his sleep and is hard to wake. I try to wake him for several minutes, and usually he opens his eyes and closes them back while he is still cying. I try comforting him, but all he does is kick me. He calms down after about ten to fifteen minutes. I put him in bed with me only to be woken up half an hour later with the same exact thing.Only while he is crying he starts kicking me. It almost seems like the kicking is just him stretching his legs out, like he can't get comfortable. He curls up and straightens out over and over. The whole time crying and not waking. I am so upset, cause I do not know what is wrong or what I can do to fix it. This all just happened out of no where.


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on September 20th, 2006
Sleep Disorders Answer A1537
According to your son’s symptoms (“crying loudly and kicking in his sleep, difficult to wake up during the event”) it seems likely that he is experiencing night terrors. Night terrors are followed by vegetative symptoms (sweating, fast breathing, enlarged eye pupils…). Kids experiencing night terrors are difficult to wake up and become confused when they wake up. Further, a child in night terrors doesn’t remember his/her dream after waking up. Night terrors are usually not due to physical or mental disease. Night terrors usually occur after a stressful physical or emotional event. They usually vanish in time. Your son will need help only if his sleep becomes so disturbed that he can’t function during the day.


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