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What Causes Child To Wake Up Screaming In Night?

My son is 2 almost 3 he is waking during the night and screaming sometimes he can be help and he ll go back to sleep but last night it lasted for 3 hours if I touch him it only made thing worse. he was flailing, screaming, crying. nothing I did seemed to make it any better
Thu, 29 Jan 2015
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Hi,
Welcome to the HCM
Brief.. Rolandic partial seizure ( epilepsy) ..is to be ruled out.
Detailed abswer...
There are some criteria which has to be differentiated between night mare and rolandic partial seizure ..for example if child remembers in the morning that what he had seen in dream at night and is fine in the morning then it is more likely a nightmare.And if child does not remember ,anything in the morning and seems to be tired and lethargic then it can be partial seizure type and has to be evaluated by EEG and discussing with neurologist further.
Regards,
DR.Maheshwari
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What Causes Child To Wake Up Screaming In Night?

Hi, Welcome to the HCM Brief.. Rolandic partial seizure ( epilepsy) ..is to be ruled out. Detailed abswer... There are some criteria which has to be differentiated between night mare and rolandic partial seizure ..for example if child remembers in the morning that what he had seen in dream at night and is fine in the morning then it is more likely a nightmare.And if child does not remember ,anything in the morning and seems to be tired and lethargic then it can be partial seizure type and has to be evaluated by EEG and discussing with neurologist further. Regards, DR.Maheshwari