Resolution of night terrors after discontinuation of cetirizine

• 作者: Lourdes DelRosso Romy Hoque
• 来源期刊: 临床医学病理报告(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: NIGHT Terrors MONTELUKAST CETIRIZINE ALLERGIC RHINITIS
• 年，卷（期）: 2012,（1）
• 页码范围: 1-2
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: R5

摘要

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.