How to treat children's night terrors

Night terrors in children are relatively common. Therefore, it is necessary for parents to understand the relevant treatment methods for night terrors in children. So how to treat night terrors in children? What are the treatments for night terrors in children? Next, this article will introduce the treatment methods for children's night terrors for your reference only. Please see the detailed introduction below.

Children's night terrors are a sleep disorder, and both physiological and psychological factors may be the cause of night terrors. After falling asleep, children suddenly sit up, scream, cry, and stare with their eyes wide open. Some even talk to themselves, but others cannot understand what they are saying. Some children touch their mouths with their hands or point their hands everywhere. Some children even get out of bed and walk around. They look very nervous and frightened, and have rapid breathing, fast heartbeat, pale face, and sweating, but they have no response to the surrounding things. After a few minutes, they will feel better and continue to sleep. This kind of attack is called night terror, and if it occurs frequently, it is also called sleep terror syndrome.

Night terrors often occur during the fourth stage of non-rapid eye movement sleep, are common in children, and usually occur 15 to 30 minutes after falling asleep. Children suddenly cry or scream in their sleep, with their eyes staring straight ahead or tightly closed, their hands and feet moving around, and sometimes they sit up from the bed or jump to the ground. Expressions of extreme fear, sweating, rapid breathing, and increased heart rate often reflect past emotional experiences of fear. It takes several minutes to wake up by shaking and shouting. If the person is not awakened, he or she will not be able to recall the seizure the next morning. Generally, the seizure lasts about 20 seconds.

How to treat night terrors in children?

1. Avoid excessive excitement and fatigue during the day, arrange your life reasonably, eliminate various factors that affect sleep disturbance, and develop a good habit of sleeping on time.

2. In terms of medication, benzodiazepines, luminal, etc. can be given. There are also reports that imipramine is effective. Acupuncture can be used on acupoints such as Anmian and Neiguan.

3. If your child often has night terrors and you are worried that he or she may have epilepsy, you may want to take your child to the hospital for relevant examinations. The doctor will give you a more satisfactory explanation. Generally speaking, as long as night terrors do not occur frequently, there is no need to go to the hospital for examination. As the child grows older, night terrors will gradually disappear.

The above is an introduction on how to treat night terrors in children. I believe that after reading the above introduction, you already know how to treat children's night terrors. For parents of sick children, if the cause of the disease cannot be found, they must take their children to the hospital for relevant examinations in time so that symptomatic treatment can be given! I hope that the introduction in this article will be helpful to friends who want to understand how to treat children's night terrors.