Abstract
Are growing pains a parasomnia
Highlights
The so called growing pains (GP) are affecting 4-37% of all children with a peak incidence in the preschool years
The study group was further subdivided in 2 groups according to the time of pain onset: “evening GP” occurring already in the late afternoon and/ or at bedtime, and “night GP” occurring only after falling asleep during the first half of the night. 38 children from a study about children’s sleep patterns served as the control cohort
In a multivariate analysis the factors wake-up difficulties, difficulties with re-entering sleep after waking up, sleep terrors and transitional object remained independently associated with GP
Summary
From 2011 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium sponsored by the American College of Rheumatology Miami, FL, USA. 2-5 June 2011. Parasomnias (e.g., sleep terrors, sleep talking, sleep walking) share several common features with GP such as age at onset, daytime of appearance, self-limited course and complete absence of symptoms on the following day, an association has not been established between the 2 conditions
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