Author(s)

Lourdes DelRosso, Romy Hoque

Department of Neurology, Division of Sleep Medicine, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Department of Neurology, Division of Sleep Medicine, Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana;.

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.

Night Terrors; Montelukast; Cetirizine; Allergic Rhinitis

DelRosso, L. and Hoque, R. (2012) Resolution of night terrors after discontinuation of cetirizine. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine, 1, 1-2. doi: 10.4236/crcm.2012.11001.