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Night-time horror: sleep problems in children

Restless nights: many parents are familiar with it.(Bild: stock.adobe.com - nick_fedirko)

Another sleepless night? Many families are familiar with this nocturnal horror - when children cannot (yet) sleep peacefully. This ranges from talking in their sleep, nightmares and paralysis to night terrors. Why is this the case and what can be done about it? Krone+ has the answers from sleep experts.

Experts do not generally speak of sleep disorders in the first twelve months of a child's life: "Sleep is still subject to a certain dynamic at a young age," says sleep physician Andreas Kaindlstorfer, head of the sleep laboratory and headache outpatient clinic at the Neuromed Campus of Kelper University Hospital Linz. The sleep-wake rhythm of the offspring is still developing.