Sleep terrors (night terrors)
Sleep terrors (night terrors)
Night terrors are episodes of screaming, intense fear and shaking while asleep. It is also known as night terrors, sleep terrors often combined with sleepwalking. Like sleepwalking, night terrors are considered a parasomnia - an undesirable event during sleep.
Although night terrors are more common in children, but can also affect adults. A night terror episode usually lasts from seconds to a few minutes, but can last longer.
Night terrors are relatively rare, affecting only a small percentage of children - often between the ages of 4 and 12 - and a smaller percentage of adults. However, the terrors of frightening dream is not usually a cause for concern. Most children outgrow night terrors for her teenage years.
The symptoms
Night terrors are different from nightmares. The dreamer awakes from a nightmare dream and can remember details, but a person who has an episode of night terror is asleep.
Children often remember nothing of their sleep terrors in the morning. Adults can remember a fragment of sleep they had during the night terrors. In addition, the nightmares usually occur in the second half of the night, while night terrors occur in the first half of the night.
During an episode of night terror, a person can:
Sit on the bed
Or scream
Kick and thrash
Sweat, breathe deeply and have a heartbeat
It will be difficult to wake up, but if you wake up confused
inconsolable
Staring wide-eyed
Getting out of bed and run around the house
Engage in aggressive behavior (more common in adults)
When to see a doctor
occasional night terrors are not usually a cause for concern. If your child has night terrors, just to mention a test routine well-child. However, consult your doctor if sleep terrors:
increasingly frequent
Routinely disrupt sleep or sleep of other family members
Because you or your child to fear going to sleep
Lead to dangerous behavior or injury
They seem to follow the same pattern every time
Persist beyond adolescence or adulthood begin
Reasons
Several factors may contribute to sleep terrors, such as:
Lack of sleep and extreme tiredness
Stress
Fever (in children)
Sleep in an unfamiliar place
Lights or noises
An overfull bladder
Night terrors are sometimes associated with underlying diseases that affect sleep, such as:
sleep-disordered breathing - one of the most common of which group of disorders characterized by abnormal breathing patterns during sleep disorders is obstructive sleep apnea disorders
Restless leg syndrome
migraines
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