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Sleep tips for children and infants
1 year old baby should always be placed on a sturdy surface behind them, in order to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
- Establish a regular set bedtime for your child to do a similar event at the same time every night before going to bed.
- All children and adolescents snore regularly tested, and sleep apnea. Other symptoms include difficulty in breathing during sleep, gasping, snorted, or apnea.
- Create a technology curfew, require the production of equipment, such as laptops, tablet computers, mobile phones, and before going to bed, turn off the TV.
Source: American Academy of Pediatrics
However, despite the child's long-term sleeping, he was always very tired. Sharlow, 44 years old, also noted that her son, dyspnea, often snore when sleeping. A doctor confirmed, Ethan Cain, obstructive sleep apnea, breathing slow or decrease due to the narrowing or blockage of the airway during sleep conditions.
"He was a good baby, Port Orange residents recalled." He just fell asleep me, and the next thing I know, he was sleeping. Everyone says, I'm so lucky, but the whole sleep harm my child, I do not know. "
Like most of the children were diagnosed with sleep apnea, Ethan Cain surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids. Sharlow said her son, now 9, can sleep throughout the night, she can see the improvement in his behavior and mood.
Sleep disorders affect 20-25% of children and adolescents, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Although childhood obesity is a disease, factors such as sleep apnea, a sleepless night, seems to have exacerbated the busy schedule of modern life, and reliance on technology, said Dr. Mary Wagner, sleep laboratory at the University of Florida's children director.
"Sometimes there are other interference, the kids stay up late," Wagner said. "Maybe they are on their phone or SMS. Because there are so many interesting things to do 24/7, is sometimes difficult in the bed, turn off the lights and go to sleep."
EDGEWATER residents Kimberly Adams, their behavior to her 1-year-old daughter, Zoe, and 4-year-old son, Zane, before going to bed a strict schedule to make the distinction. Because her husband woke up every morning at 4:30, the whole family went to bed at 20:00, she said.
"We try not to run around in a week done a lot," Adams said. "We sat down to dinner every night 6, and then take a bath, get ready for bed when my son was born, we have been a consistent schedule."
The AAP recommends children age 5-13 years old receive 10 hours of sleep per night eight to nine hours every night 14 - 18-year-old child. Children of irregular or interrupted sleep, can cause side effects, such as the lack of inattention, impulsivity and irritability. Researchers are studying the correlation between the sleep disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, because of similar side effects.
"We see growth of children and adolescents with sleep disorders, especially obstructive sleep apnea suspended because of obesity and weight problems, Amy said:" brilliant Revis, Project Director at Concorde Career College in Orlando neurological diagnosis technical solutions. "We do not know whether there is correlation, sleep disorders and ADHD symptoms are exactly the same."
A 2007 study published in the journal AAPfound, 50% of parents of children and adolescents with ADHD sleep problems, but the relationship is not very clear.
Sleep problems or mental illness, it is unclear whether it is the most important issue, "the researchers wrote in the study.
Licensed school psychologist and behavior analysis of professional ethics Daytona Beach, Joellen said Salce Rogers, she and her patients to assess ADHD screening habits, such as eating and sleeping.
If they do not sleep well, or off and there is a possibility that there is a correlation, it is worth looking into," Rogers said. "There is no doubt that our life is crazy, we are now running in different directions, but also has a large genetic component associated with ADHD."
Wagner said that the education of doctors, parents and psychologists, it is important to ensure that children get the best treatment of sleep and behavioral disorders. She also suggested that sleep disorders screening test in children with ADHD.
"We're better to make a diagnosis, but who know their children the best parents," Wagner said. "They should provide primary care concern to the attention of those."
