We present a 4-year-old girl with allergies and asthma who developed night terrors after initia- tion of montelukast at 2 years of age. Montelu-kast was discontinued and cetirizine was started. Nigh terrors persisted....We present a 4-year-old girl with allergies and asthma who developed night terrors after initia- tion of montelukast at 2 years of age. Montelu-kast was discontinued and cetirizine was started. Nigh terrors persisted. Sleep diaries were col- lected and diagnosticpolysomnogram (PSG) was ordered. Sleep diaries revealed an average sleep time of 10 hours with night terrors occur- ring three nights a week approximately two hours after sleep onset. The PSG did not show evidence of sleep disordered breathing or peri- odic leg movements. Cetirizine was discontin- ued and the night terrors ceased. Upon re-intro- duction of the medication, the sleep terrors re- curred.展开更多
Night is Elie Wiesel's classic memoir of the Holocaust. One of its central themes is that once involved in war, a person is doomed to undergo a transformation from a human being to a soulless body. To understand t...Night is Elie Wiesel's classic memoir of the Holocaust. One of its central themes is that once involved in war, a person is doomed to undergo a transformation from a human being to a soulless body. To understand this theme, we shall have to travel with Eliezer, the protagonist as well as the fi rst person narrator, through the long nights of living in fear of hunger, terror, and violence. Hopefully, the leg of this journey would reveal how the consistent exposure to traumatic experiences can compel a person to abandon the soul as his or her emotional and spiritual homebase.展开更多
文摘We present a 4-year-old girl with allergies and asthma who developed night terrors after initia- tion of montelukast at 2 years of age. Montelu-kast was discontinued and cetirizine was started. Nigh terrors persisted. Sleep diaries were col- lected and diagnosticpolysomnogram (PSG) was ordered. Sleep diaries revealed an average sleep time of 10 hours with night terrors occur- ring three nights a week approximately two hours after sleep onset. The PSG did not show evidence of sleep disordered breathing or peri- odic leg movements. Cetirizine was discontin- ued and the night terrors ceased. Upon re-intro- duction of the medication, the sleep terrors re- curred.
文摘Night is Elie Wiesel's classic memoir of the Holocaust. One of its central themes is that once involved in war, a person is doomed to undergo a transformation from a human being to a soulless body. To understand this theme, we shall have to travel with Eliezer, the protagonist as well as the fi rst person narrator, through the long nights of living in fear of hunger, terror, and violence. Hopefully, the leg of this journey would reveal how the consistent exposure to traumatic experiences can compel a person to abandon the soul as his or her emotional and spiritual homebase.