5yo Scared of stairs

[tinkletoots]

My 5 year old has always been scared of going up and down stairs standing up. At nearly 5 he finally can walk upstairs standing up as long as he dosnt have to stop.

He still cannot walk down a set of stairs, he has to bump down on his bottom. He completely freaks out and panics if we even mention walking down.

Will this improve on his own or should we be doing something, should it be mentioned to his teacher.

Is it vertigo? I suffer and I go lightheaded and my knees wobble a bit on some staircases, metal ones where you van see right down in particular

You could mention it, my daughter isn’t scared of stairs she is 4 but they do have stairs at her school so might be worth mentioning to see if he is the same there? Has he ever fallen on them? Could explain it