Fixing Sleep Apnea Makes Children Behave Better No Matter What Their IQ Is.
Jan 12, 2016 05:11 PM By Justin Caba Fixing sleep apnea benefits children of all IQs. Daniel; CC by 2.0 Obstructive sleep apnea makes it nearly impossible to get a good night’s sleep. Imagine air stopping in your throat, prompting you to choke and wake up so you can reopen your airways…100 times a night. Not to mention sleep apnea in children is associated with increased risk for other complications, including obesity, AHDH, and heart disease. If that weren’t reason enough to seek treatment, maybe this will: A recent study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System found remedying a child’s sleep apnea …
Kids who snore may have poorer grades in school.
By Larry Hand Published September 07, 2015 Snoring and other breathing problems during sleep can put kids at risk for poorer performance in school, a new study confirms. Parents, teachers, and health care professionals need to be aware of the potential effects of sleep-disordered breathing and be able to recognize the symptoms, Barbara Galland, who led the study, said in an email. Galland, from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, and her colleagues analyzed data pooled from 16 studies done in 12 countries, each including an average of about 550 children ages 5 to 17. The studies looked …
Snoring Children May Suffer From Sleep Apnea
By JANE E. BRODY / JULY 27, 2015 5:45 AM Credit Paul Rogers Barrett Treadway, now 3½, has never been the best of sleepers, but her sleep grew increasingly worse in the last year and a half. She gets up several times a night, often climbs into her parents’ bed and creates havoc with their nights. “We’ve known for a long time that she snores, but until a mother-daughter trip in May when we shared a bed, I didn’t realize that this was not simply snoring,” her mother, Laura, told me. “She repeatedly stopped breathing, then started again with a …
Children With Sleep Apnea Face Health and Cognitive Issues
One to 4 percent of all children have obstructive sleep apnea, but many go undiagnosed and untreated. “As many as 25 percent of children diagnosed with ADHD may in fact have obstructive sleep apnea,” says one expert. By Magaly Olivero June 9, 2015 | 9:42 a.m. EDT Is your hyperactive child having trouble learning at school? Does your son constantly toss and turn at night? Can you hear your daughter’s irregular breathing during sleep? All of these symptoms could be the result of obstructive sleep apnea, a serious but treatable disorder that can lead to health problems, behavioral issues and learning difficulties …
How Kids’ Sleep Can Be Influenced by Digital Media.
Suren Ramasubbu 05/20/2015 3:56 pm EDT In 2014, the National Sleep Foundation found that most 15- to 17-year-olds routinely get seven hours or fewer hours of sleep, which is a good two hours less sleep than they need for a healthy life. The foundation also found that sleep quality was better among children who turned their digital devices off before bedtime than those who took their devices to bed. It would thus seem that there is a connection between screen time and sleep. Is this connection somatic (purely physical), psychosomatic (caused by the mind) or just mass hysteria brought …
Is Your Child a Mouth-Breather? There’s New Help at the Dentist.
Posted: 09/19/2014 5:19 pm EDT “If you can see or hear your child breathing, that’s a problem,” said Dr. Benedict Miraglia, a dentist in Mount Kisco, New York, who spoke at a recent seminar, “ADHD and The Role of Sleep,” in Hartsdale, New York. Seeing or hearing what should be silent and invisible is a clue to obstructed airways — which are often associated with snoring and sleep apnea, and increasingly, in children, with jaw malformation, a bad bite, sleep-deprivation and even ADHD and ADD — all of which can stem from mouth-breathing, which he says is also associated with …
Kids Sleep Doctor: App That Improves Your Kid’s Sleep Better Than A Doctor
By Nida I Zamir on April 6, 2015 So parents are about to sigh with relief as a free app to improve children’s sleep has been launched by doctors at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in London. The app, Kids Sleep Doctor, gives parents custom advice, based on the sleeping patterns of their children, like night terrors or teens staying up all night long. Paul Gringras, a professor of children’s sleep medicine at the hospital, said that the doctors only skim through a patient, seeing “only the tip of the iceberg” due to the “massive” waiting lists. That is why the hospital decided …
Obesity In Children Linked to Lack of Sleep and Breathing Problems.
Mar 7, 2015 A child’s difficulty to sleep and breathing problems can influence the risk of your child from getting obese. The recent research study published in The Journal of Pediatrics revealed that these two conditions may double the risk for obesity of a child as he reaches the age of 15. The lead researcher, Prof. Karen Bonuck, indicated that sleep and breathing problems are correctable conditions, but when not treated accordingly can increase the risk of the child to become obese. Sleep disordered breathing Sleep disordered breathing is considered to be a risk factor to child obesity. The condition …
Neck-to-waist ratio can help predict pediatric obstructive sleep apnea
Sharon M. O’Brien, MPAS, PA-CJanuary 19, 2015 Research from Canada demonstrated that a neck-to-waist ratio of >0.41 has sufficient sensitivity and specificity to be considered a predictor of obstructive sleep apnea. Neck-to-waist ratio can help predict pediatric OSA Adults are not the only ones who develop sleep apnea. The condition occurs frequently in children as well. The statistics are quite staggering — up to 66% of obese children are diagnosed with apnea compared with 5.7% of non-obese children. This is another reason to keep children active and help them make better food choices. Just as with adults, the consequences of sleep …
Notes from Dr. Norman Blumenstock Breathing problems or a chronic lack of sleep early in life may double the risk that a child will be obese by age 15, according to research published Thursday in The Journal of Pediatrics. December 11, 201410:54 AM ET ALISON BRUZEK Sleep tight — and quietly, please. ImageZoo/Corbis A solid night’s sleep does more than recharge a growing brain — it may also help keep a growing body lean. Breathing problems or a chronic lack of sleep early in life may double the risk that a child will be obese by age 15, according to …
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