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Frequent sleep terror incidents
My son age of 20 screams and runs around in the middle of his sleep very frequently twice in a week approximately. It lasts forever 30 seconds and behaves normal once he awake.
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Dr. Sumit Kumar Gupta
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22 yrs exp
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The most important thing to be done is to prevent the potential of injuring himself during the episode. Any potentially harmful object such as sharps, protruding objects or glassware should be removed from the bedroom, so that he does not injure himself while running.
If there is any stress, it needs to be resolved.
Sometimes, nocturnal seizures mimic night terrors and should be ruled out (mostly on the basis of information, but sometimes EEG may be required)
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