waking nightmares in 7 year old child

[SunnyLikeThursday]

Hi,

My son has started having waking nightmares and he doesn't like them at all and isn't able to stop them by looking through them. He had a lot of forced medical procedures as a toddler and I still have PTSD symptoms from that time my self.

I wondered - do you think this is normal 7 year old stuff, or might it be anxiety, or actual PTSD in my ds? I have written to make an appointment with a child psychologist.

Thanks!

The other thing I wondered is, could it be cheese causing it? He's a bit of a cheese-hound and we took a week off cheese and things got better and then he had a cheesy pizza and it got worse again.