Seven-year-old children waking up in the middle of the night crying need to find out why, may be physiological, may also be pathological; physiological reasons need to adjust the lifestyle, pathologically caused by the need for targeted treatment under the guidance of the doctor, such as drug therapy.
1. Physiological: Consider the child during the day to see the horror of thrilling pictures, movies, etc., and seven-year-old children’s language ability and thinking ability to improve greatly, rich imagination will stimulate the child to do a variety of dreams, resulting in the child waking up in the middle of the night crying. At this time, we need to avoid excessive daytime excitement, tiredness, avoid listening to stressful and scary stories and watching stressful and scary movies and television.
2. Pathologic:
(1) cold and fever: may also appear in the middle of the night waking up and crying, body temperature more than 38.5 degrees can be used to ibuprofen and other antipyretic drugs for treatment, after the fever woke up in the middle of the night crying symptoms will naturally improve.
(2) Vitamin D deficiency: children may have symptoms such as irritability, sleep disturbance, night terrors, excessive sweating, etc. Occipital baldness may be caused by shaking the head and rubbing the pillow, followed by skeletal changes and delayed motor development. Consider oral vitamin D, while giving appropriate amount of calcium, give appropriate amount of calcium, such as calcium gluconate.
However, other factors can not be ruled out, it is recommended that parents exclude physiological causes, should bring the child to the doctor in time, the doctor to give targeted treatment, do not blindly self-medication.