{"id":2755,"date":"2013-03-29T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:39:00","slug":"nicholas-night-terrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/nicholas-night-terrors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas&#8217; night terrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2783\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2013\/03\/29\/nicholas-night-terrors\/nicholas\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2783 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2013\/04\/Nicholas-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas undergoes brain monitoring at the RCH. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For five years, the prospect\u00a0of peaceful slumber has been out of arms reach for Nicholas Kontogeorgis and his mother, Julie.<\/p>\n<p>The five-year-old has been plagued by night terrors that would wake him up to 10 times a night. The episodes\u00a0leave Nicholas exhausted by the afternoon and cause anxiety at\u00a0kindergarten\u00a0 His mother, who sleeps in the same room as her son to ease his anxiety, is similarly exhausted and desperate to find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Nicholas was admitted to The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) to undergo five days of brain monitoring.\u00a0\u00a0Nicholas was hooked up to\u00a0a video EEG recording unit, attached by electrodes glued to his head.<\/p>\n<p>Given his history of epilepsy, doctors first imagined the night terrors to be caused by seizures. However, the week of monitoring showed that Nicholas suffers from a sleep disorder called parasomnia.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas has now\u00a0been referred to a sleep\u00a0specialist and\u00a0his mother Julie is hopeful that new treatment will help her son return to a normal routine.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun GFA gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/pictures\/gallery-e6frf94x-1226608015345?page=6\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a gallery of photos from The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCH finds an answer to Nicholas&#8217; night terrors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}