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Sleep Terror In Child When Having Fever And Without

by Somashekar
(Bangalore, India)

My son is 4.5 years old. This happened 2 months before when my son was having a Fever because of infection. He woke up that night without screaming but he made some kind of sound which make us wake up.


His eyes was wide open, he could not make any kind of eye contact with us even when we tried to speak to him. He wanted to cry but stopped and tried to cry again and stopped repeating this many times.

Then he somehow responded with us and told us about a falling house even without looking at us (all these time he was staring at the ceiling), We started to freakout and then suddenly he calmed down as though nothing has happened. He slept for 2-3 hours and then again same-thing happened & this time he was looking at each of us and getting afraid as though we were demons.

The entire drama was repeated but he could not tell why he was afraid. Again he slept and nothing happened after that. Next day morning, after breakfast as he was having fever he slept again and within an hour he woke up same way and this time he stood up and he hold my palm and started saying blood, blood, it took me 10 mins to calm him down.

In all this 3 occasion within minutes of calming down he had loose-motion and his bed was wet, as though he was trying to hold it.

After this incident, he didn't had this again until yesterday. This time he was absolutely ok - no fever or infection. He woke up midnight and I initially thought he wanted to go for loo (as he does this occasionally), he was crying normally without freaking out (he does this every time he woke up for a loo) and I helped him remove his pant & when we guide him to the toilet room he went to the living room as though disoriented. He came back circling the room, went inside the toilet and started pissing, then he started freaking out and he started shaking his entire body like strong shivering, then I realize that he was going through the same thing, I carried him to the bedroom and made him sleep on my lap trying to calm him down and all this time he was staring at the ceiling with lots shivers like he was afraid of something.

He calmed down after 5-6 mins and then he slept. At around 4:00PM next day afternoon, same thing happened and this time I was in the office, and my wife called me explaining that he had a sleep terror and this time again he was telling about a falling house. Please guide us how to calm him down as this makes us more disturbing.

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