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| posted by green tea 955 days ago (edited 955 days ago) |
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parents out there....want to share my experience....my 5yrs old son has fever since yesterday..tonight just 30 mins back he woke all of a sudden with an affraid face and started to scream showing something in the room. He was scared to the core with his eyes filled with tears . Basically he was half awake. Blabbering something about a lady who came to catch him and sat in the train..etc..etc, crying. Me and hubby were trying to wake him up full and assuring him that this is the dream and he is not awake completely...still he wouldnt listen! He took nearly 15 mins to regain his full Conscience and went to sleep again. This made me **** scared....is this normal? When he had this nigh mare he had no fever...could this happen even when the kid is normal? Why this happened? Was that a heavy dream or is he too sensitive? Please share your views...am scared by the way he acted tonight!! Let me know..please....
I wasn't kissing him,
I was just telling his lips a secret!!!
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| posted by sunwaterandsky 955 days ago |
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Green tea - what you have described sounds like an example of "night terrors". The name sounds much worse than it is. It is very common in children, rare in adults. If you do a quick internet search, you will find much more than I can remember about it. Good luck, I am sure that, in the end, this was much scarier for you than it was for him.
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| posted by Lady G 955 days ago |
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Green Tea> there are heaps of websites related to this sleep disorder, e.g. www.nightterrors.org and the one I have copied from below, http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/sleep/a/night_terrors.htm
Night Terrors
From Vincent Iannelli, M.D.,
Pediatric Basics
Night terrors are a common sleep problem among children. By some estimates, about 15% of younger children have occasional night terrors. Although most common in children between the ages of 2 and 6 years, they can occur at almost any age.
Although usually considered to be normal or benign, they are often very scary and distressing to parents who often overreact, especially during a child's first night terror.
Symptoms
When you hear how most experts describe night terrors, it is easy to see why parents find them distressing. Children who have night terrors are usually described as 'bolting upright' with their eyes wide open, with a look of fear and panic, and letting out a 'blood curdling scream'.
These kids will usually also be sweating, breathing fast and have a rapid heart rate (autonomic signs). And although it will seem like they are awake, during a night terror, children will appear confused, will not be consolable and won't recognize you.
Typical night terrors last about 5 to 30 minutes and afterwards, children usually return to a regular sleep. If you are able to wake your child up during a night terror, he is likely to become scared and agitated, mostly because of your own reaction to the night terror, especially if you were shaking or yelling at him to wake up. Instead of trying to wake up a child having a night terror, it is usually better to just make sure he is safe, comfort him if you can, and help him return to sleep once it is over.
Diagnosis
The diagnosis of night terrors is usually made by the history of a child 'waking' early in the night screaming and being inconsolable. Night terrors are most often confused with nightmares, but unlike night terrors, a child having a nightmare is usually easily woken up and comforted.
The other worry for many parents is that these episodes are a type of seizure. Although different types of partial seizures, including temporal lobe and frontal lobe epilepsy, can appear similar to night terrors, they are usually brief (30 seconds to a few minutes) and are more common in older children and adults.
Treatments
No treatment is usually necessary for routine night terrors. Since they are often triggered in children who are overtired, sticking to a good bedtime routine and making sure your child is getting enough rest can help to prevent them.
For children who get frequent night terrors, it might help to wake your child up before the time that he usually has a night terror. This is thought to interrupt or alter the sleep cycle and prevent night terrors from occuring (it also works for sleepwalking).
Rarely, sleep medications might be used for a short time if your child gets very frequent night terrors.
What You Need To Know
Night terrors are also called sleep terrors or pavor nocturnus.
Similar to sleepwalking and sleeptalking, night terrors are considered to be a disorder of arousal and are a partial arousal from non-REM sleep.
Unlike a nightmare, children usually don't recall having a night terror.
Also unlike nightmares, night terrors usually occur in the early part of the night, about 1 to 4 hours after going to sleep.
If your child gets night terrors, make sure that baby sitters and other caregivers are aware of them and know what they should do if one occurs.
Most children outgrow night terrors as they get older.
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| posted by green tea 955 days ago |
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SWS> You got me exactely here when you said" I am sure that, in the end, this was much scarier for you than it was for him." So true!!
G> The article above gave me sort of relief sweety. Thanks a lot. My kis was behaving exactely the same way what has been stated up there. Well we took the right measure, i realised after I read that. We didnot try to wake him up, my hubby held him in his arms and we stating gently that its his dream..nothing to worry..we both are next to him...get back to sleep! You should have seen him clinging to my hubby and trying to hide his face in his arms. My heart melted:-(( But the above journal was really helpful! Thanks again
I wasn't kissing him,
I was just telling his lips a secret!!!
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| posted by The Crone 955 days ago |
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My son also went through this for a period of time when he was about 5! But it did go away..
I dream again
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| posted by xpat-Aussie 955 days ago |
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OMG, the kid had a nightmare... he'll get over it. If it happens every night, take him to a doctor, an internet forum is not exactly a place famous for sound advice 
"...and once you have tasted flight,
you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been and there you long to return...."
-Leonardo DaVinci
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| posted by green tea 955 days ago |
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Crone> So you are in the same boat eh? Good that he got over it!
XP> Thanks,I hope he will get over it. I dont prefer at all see him in that state. I will take the professional advice as well if this continues, but I have always got some valubale information on this site when ever I wanted the sincere sugessions. Its rather sharing and get the feeling somebody out there who listenes and suggests thing you know.
I wasn't kissing him,
I was just telling his lips a secret!!!
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| posted by xpat-Aussie 955 days ago |
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Understood Tea... 
I am sure he'll get over it though... but being childless (unless I can count myself) I'm no oracle for advice, though I do like to give it
"...and once you have tasted flight,
you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been and there you long to return...."
-Leonardo DaVinci
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| posted by Velvet 955 days ago |
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Green Tea, this may sound simplistic, but when your son is awake, take every opportunity to hold, hug, cuddle him and *speak* your love to him. I don't mean that you don't do that anyway, but especially after an ordeal like this, he needs extra comfort from you. His subconscious will "remember" that he is safe and protected when his conscious is nurtured, if you know what I mean.
"What we do in life echoes in eternity"
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| posted by green tea 955 days ago |
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Understood Vel, may be thats why yesterday he seemed feeling so secured and protected when my hubby took him in his arms and we were talking to him gentely so that he comes to his conscience back.
I wasn't kissing him,
I was just telling his lips a secret!!!
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