To treat night terrors in children, it is important to first understand the cause of the disease, avoid causing fear and unpleasant emotions in the child before going to bed, and let the child fall asleep in a relaxed and psychologically balanced situation. If the child has frequent attacks, he or she should be examined and given treatment at a hospital. What is night terrors? Night terrors, also known as dream panic disorder or night terrors, often occur within 30 minutes to 2 hours of falling asleep at night, mostly in children aged 3 to 7 years old, and occur once a month or several months. Children are often awakened by nightmares, suddenly sitting up, eyes open or closed, yelling, talking to themselves, but others do not understand what he said; some children move their hands and feet, or jump out of bed, expression of tension, fear, sweating, dilated pupils, shortness of breath, pale, palpitations, sometimes hallucinations, hallucinations, confusion, do not recognize family members. Usually the seizure lasts 1-10 minutes and goes back to sleep. If the seizure occurs during a nightmare, the child cannot recall the seizure; if the seizure occurs before awakening, the child may recall a feeling of pressure, stuffiness, or suffocation. However, most children do not recall what happened before they were fully awake or only say that they seemed to feel scared. In general, night terrors are caused by certain factors during developmental maturation and occur in about 1% to 3% of normal children and may disappear on their own in adulthood. What are the causes of night terrors? 1, genetic factors: about half of the children with night terrors have a family history of one of their parents also have this condition, and thus presumably may be related to defects in brain development. Such children are more likely to commit the disease under the action of psychological factors. 2, psychological factors: some psychological stimuli, such as the child seeing or hearing something scary, being severely criticized, being frightened, being suddenly separated from parents, parents quarreling, having an accident, etc., can cause night terrors. For example, if a child is rescued from a house fire and is rescued from the fire, the scene of the fire often appears in the dream later and night terrors occur repeatedly. The degree and frequency of night terrors are related to the age and personality of the child. Sensitive and timid children are prone to and will have frequent episodes, and the phenomenon will still occur even if the psychological factors are lifted. However, over time, they will eventually resolve until they disappear. Night terrors can be distinguished from epilepsy based on the self-limiting nature of the seizures, the ease of awakening and increased heart rate during the seizure, the continuation of sleep after the seizure, and a normal EEG. This disorder is easily confused with nightmares. Children with frequent nightmares may be reluctant to sleep, but this is not the case with night terrors. Sleepwalking disorder, also called nocturnal sleepwalking disorder, is also a kind of sleep disorder, with a large range of activities, often appearing some seemingly purposeful and repeated activities, often outdoors, such as opening windows, moving things, running, walking back and forth, going out, going up to the house, and even jumping down from upstairs, etc.; while the range of activities of night terrors is much smaller than sleepwalking disorder, and this kind of children are mostly active indoors and rarely leave the room.