What causes child to wake up in terror from sleep?
Patient: Hi my 19 month old daughter will sleep through from 7.30pm until 1.30am and then wakes up in terror, she has all her teeth through. however she can go up to 4 days with out going for a pooh. could this be the reason she wakes up in the night for up to 3 hours? Doctor: night terrors in children is usually caused by stress , either psychological stress or physiologic stress .try to look for any thing that bothers her or frightened her , if there is a social issues try not let her involved in that .constipation might cause a physiologic stress but rarely if ever can cause a night terror , for this condition give her miralax sachets once a day or lactulose syrup 5 ml twice daily and that will loose her stool . I hope this helps