Night terrors
Can anyone tell me what a night terror is exactly. My 18 month old sonhas been waking up during the night 2-3 times crying hysterically. Hegoes back to sleep with me, but will not go back in his crib. This hasbeen happening for the past 3-4 weeks, he used to sleep through thenight, with the exception of waking for an early morning (4-5am)bottle. I’m also wondering if this could have anything to do with DMGsince it kind of coincides with starting him on DMG. He takes the kindwith folic acid and B vitamins added. I’d like to keep him on DMG b/che’s vocalizing more, shows more responsiveness to sound, waves bye bye,and has better eye contact on it. Or could this be 18 month oldseparation anxiety b/c he has also been getting upset a lot lately wheneither my husband or myself leave the room, which is very unusual forhim - normally he doesn’t seem to really notice.
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Lenny Siglin said,
Wrote on March 6, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
We had a very similar experience when we tried DMG with our son, wereduced the dosage to a 1/4 tablet but he was still waking up duringthe night. In the end we gave up on the DMG as any gains wereoutweighed by the fact he (and the rest of the family!) was so tiredhe couldn’t function properly.
The only way to test the theory that it is the DMG is to take him offit, see what, if any reaction there is, and reintroduce it againslowly. My understanding is the DMG leaves the body quite quicklyand in our case we found as soon as we took him off it he sleptthrough the night again.
Regarding night terrors, generally the child is in a semi consciousstate but does not respond to you - just as frightening to you as tothem. We have had this once or twice - I just held and stroked untilhe calmed down and he eventually became conscious of where he was.
Horacio Ballew said,
Wrote on March 7, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
I think it might be a autistic characterstic as my son sleptwonderfully until 4 weeks ago. Now he wakes two or three times a weekin the middle of the night screaming. It seems to be far more intensethan a normal children nightwaking as he is literally hysterical. Wehadn’t started any supplements or anything