Only seems sick at night

My miss 3 for the last few nights has been really unsettled at night, crying in her sleep like she does when she is unwell. Tonight she was hysterical and acting like she does when she's got a high fever, but she doesn't. She wouldn't even take any panodol which is a massive change for her, she usually loves it. She wouldn't tell me what was wrong, she'd just cry hyterically and dribble and have snot everywhere. But what I don't understand is its just between when she goes to sleep at bedtime til about midnight then she'll sleep until morning and wake up croaky but fine and be right as rain the whole day and evening until it hits again after she's gone to sleep at night time. Can anyone else explain what this could be?? Hate seeing her like this :(

How old is she? Our DD's have done that/do that when they are teething or having night terrors. We are going through the exact same thing right now with DD2 who is 19mths. I suspect she's cutting her 2 year old molars and she's had a definite night terror this week as well. She had fevers overnight last night and a mild cough but is happy as otherwise.

Any change in diet? Toothpaste? Soap? Could it be something she's exposed to in the evening which is causing a reaction?

Aside from that, it does sound familiar though, in that when my kids are ill they seem to have more symptoms at night, and also that my big girl started having a few night terrors at 3.

Hope you get to the bottom of it. xo

My DS3 has been having sleep disturbances for a few weeks now. Crying calling out getting up etc. I'm not even convinced he's properly awake a lot of the time. Could be a stage I think :( Hoping it passes soon :crossfingers:

Sounds like a night terror. They are really quite distressing to watch. Our DD would not respond to us at all & trying to calm her down made them longer and worse. In the end we would just sit quietly near her and just watch her to make sure she didn't hurt herself (by falling over/knocking into walls). One thing that seemed to trigger them (could have been a coincidence) was BBQ Sakatas (probably due to the colourings/preservatives) so we avoided them and anything like that and tiredness. When she was very tired they would come on. Unfortunately we had the odd one still and it was just her becoming older that they stopped (She is 6 now)

Sounds like a night terror my dd2 has them. They are hard to witness as nothing calms her down until she physically wakes, but sometimes she doesn't, just eventually goes back to sleep.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm thinking it may be that too now. The only way I can calm her was to hold her in my arms and rock her. Hate seeing her like that. It's kinda scary!

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm thinking it may be that too now. The only way I can calm her was to hold her in my arms and rock her. Hate seeing her like that. It's kinda scary!