What's the difference between nightmares and night terrors? What should I do if my child has them? скачать в хорошем качестве

What's the difference between nightmares and night terrors? What should I do if my child has them?

Nightmares, night terrors, are a very common part of childhood. First you have to understand the difference between the two. Nightmares generally are a little bit older with kids, they start when they're a little bit older. Nightmares pretty much happen in all kids. They are as follows: The child will wake up and be totally conscious, and will be frightened. They will be able to describe to you what they saw, maybe not in detail, but they'll be upset. "I saw a monster." They can recall what the nightmare was about. Night terrors are very different. They tend to be genetic. Only 10%-20% of kids have them. They tend to come in clusters. They really actually are a form of sleepwalking. The kids aren't really awake. Normally when you sleep, your brain suppresses your motor activity, your ability to move. If you've ever woken up from a deep sleep, you may recall that you can hardly move as you first wake up, and that's normal. Mother Nature normally keeps you very calm and immobilized when you dream. A night terror, those inhibitions are gone. So the child is talking, screaming, yelling, acting out, and sometimes literally walking through that episode. The inhibition to lay there still is gone. When you go in running and see a child with a night terror, they'll look almost like they're looking through you. It's scary. It looks like they're possessed. They'll be screaming, and pointing at something, and talking around to people that are in the room that they see. It's a little creepy. Then they'll suddenly just go to sleep, and you'll go "whoa". The next morning you ask them about it, they have no idea what you're talking about. That's a night terror. Generally we counsel families with night terrors to try to ignore it. It's hard to. But they're not getting up out of the bed and walking around or getting in a situation where they can be in trouble, it's really all you have to do. Nightmares, they'll come in you comfort them and try to help them feel safe, and you put them back to bed. And help them realize it was just a dream, and reassure them. Night terrors, they're not going to remember, so it doesn't do any good to talk about it the next day. Reassure yourself that it's a normal part of childhood for some kids. They tend to come in groups and clusters. Occasionally there are some medications that make a difference if they're frequent and long term, but for the most part, they're transient.