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Ouch! The obvious. Many reasons for childhood dementia. Terrible reasons. I'm going to have to say no to sundowning in pediatric cases, though. Final answer.

Correction. The behavior is concerning but could not be sundowning at all. Due to no underlying dementia. Sundowning would not be possible. There might be behavioral puzzles, but sundowning would not present in the very young, whose brains are still developing rapidly.

I finally realized it today that the recent behavior I saw in a home pediatric patient in the evening in a South Miami community home was sundowning. I'd never seen anything like it in a child before. He didn't respond to his mother, at bedtime which he always sought her out, even the sound of her voice. secondly, he wouldn't sleep for long after he normally does, and his agitation was off the charts.