What are Night Terrors?
Pediatric night terrors are babies under the age of 1 who cry regularly at night due to cold, heat, and fright, and even have symptoms all night long. Children's night terrors are abnormal sleep behaviors of children. They are manifested as a sleep disorder that suddenly wakes up after sitting asleep, sits up in a horror and shouts, and can have extreme fear of autonomic and behavioral changes.
- English name
- nightterrors
- Visiting department
- Pediatrics
- Multiple groups
- Children
- Common causes
- Dirty, delicate and weak
- Common symptoms
- Suddenly screaming and crying during sleep, with extreme fear, sweating, shortness of breath, and increased heart rate
- Contagious
- no
Basic Information
Causes of night terrors
- In childhood, because the viscera was delicate and weak, and his heart was distracted and he couldn't sleep at night because of the strange sounds of the puppets, the surprise of foreign bodies, and some diseases.
Night terror clinical manifestations
- The typical manifestations of night terrors are summarized as follows: suddenly screaming and crying during sleep, crying and stopping, or crying at regular intervals, or even overnight, with extreme fear, sweating, shortness of breath, and rapid heart rate. A panic attack usually manifests as a lack of memory. It is quiet during the day, and there is no fever, vomiting, diarrhea, aphtha, bloatedness, trauma and other manifestations. The number of seizures is not constant, usually several days or tens of days, or once every few days.
Night terror syndrome classification
- Spleen-yang deficiency
- The cry is low, the sleeping is curvy, the abdomen is warm and happy, the limbs are warm, the food is small, the stools are clear, the urine is clear and long, the complexion is pale, the lips and tongue are light, the moss is thin, and the fingerprint is red.
- 2. Heart Meridian Fever
- The cry is louder, and the cry is even more dramatic when the lights are on. When crying, she has red lips, irritability, warmth and sweating, constipation, short urine, red tongue, yellow fur, and purple fingerprints.
- 3. Horror
- Ye Ye suddenly woke up and cried, crying sharply, seeing the shape of a foreign body, holding her mother's arms tightly, her face gray. The tongue coating is normal, and the fingerprint is bruise.
Night terror treatment
- Dialectical treatment
- Children with spleen deficiency can take Xiaojianzhong Decoction, Sijunzi Decoction and other spleen-enhancing drugs. Children with built-up heat or panic can take Qier Pill for children.
- 2. Diet conditioning
- Eat more hemp yam porridge and vegetables and fruits, eat less fat and thick and greasy products, dinner can not be full, eat a regular diet.
- 3. Chiropractic
- The child lies on his back and lifts his shirt to expose the entire back. The operator first massages the child's back up and down several times with warm hands to relax the muscles. Then he fists with both hands and a half. During the operation, he grows from the child's tail At the beginning of the acupoint, use the thumb to scratch the side edge against the skin, press the index finger and the middle finger forward, and use the three fingers to press together to pinch the skin of the Changqiang acupoint together, and then work from the bottom up along the vein. The sequence of pushing, pinching, twisting, putting, and lifting is from the long strong point under the tail vertebra to the Dazhui point at the upper end of the spine. This is one time. Generally, every three pinches will lift the spine skin, and so on. 6 Again, 2 weeks is a course of treatment.
Night terror prevention and care
- Poor family environment, poorly ventilated bedrooms, dirty air, high temperatures, too much dinner, and criticism from teachers or parents are also factors that trigger night terrors in children. Therefore, fully understand children's potential anxieties and provide support at any time, increase parent-child contact and communication, and create a good family environment; improve the sleeping environment, sleep habits and eating habits, maintain lifestyle rules, improve children's sleep quality, pay attention to calcium and vitamins The lack of D supplement is particularly important for preventing night terrors.