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Finally! Mainstream media and childhood sleep apnea
I've been reading and researching the effects of infant and childhood sleep apnea for 5 years. Getting your Peditrician or Primary care physician to explore this optional treatment over ADHD drugs can be difficult.
Watch your kids breath when they are asleep. We are born obligatory nose breathers. If your child (or yourself for that matter) mouth breath when they sleep and have behavioral or focus issues. There's a good chance they have sleep apnea and it needs to be addressed. Either Tonsil and adenoid removal or, in some cases, the use of CPAP. Yes! I have 7 and 8 year olds on CPAP. And it works!!!
http://http://www.king5.com/health/childrens-healthlink/Babies-snor...
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Permalink Reply by Neal Buckner, LRCP on
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Hey Kath. I just followed that link to the disposable Sleep apnea screening device. Very cool!!! I'm sure there are some pretty big lobbyist's being paid by Respironics and Resmed to keep this device from entering the US market. Hopefully one day. Too many jobs at stake, I guess. lol
Kath Hope www.hope2Sleep.co.uk said:Thanks 99 :)
Both my children were really snuffly (not snoring, just really noisy breathers) and I heard them lots of times stop breathing. My husband used to tell me off for prodding them (this was before we knew about sleep apnoea). I suspect both my kids could be sufferers - our eldest who's 25 won't entertain the idea - she has bad asthma and doesn't sleep well! Our son said he'll use one of the Sleep Strips we sell on the website to check (which we're not allowed to sell to the USA, which is silly as they're cheap and very accurate in diagnosing the likelihood of OSA), but keeps delaying it. He's exactly like I was.... goes to bed as late as possible and can never get enough sleep or get up in a morning. He sweats loads in his sleep too. He's also struggled academically, but wasn't labelled with ADHD, dyslexia etc. His brain is just muddled, even though he's clever in other ways (he's even designed a pillow for us OSA sufferers which we're in the process of having manufactured on UK). Now you know why I suspect this in BOTH my kids. Oh, by the way, the ENT surgeon we saw with our 16 year old son a few years back told me "no way does OSA run in families. That man will live to eat his words :(
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Permalink Reply by Kath Hope www.hope2Sleep.co.uk on
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Maybe you and Mike can start a petition up LOL. It's only like buying a disposable pregnancy tester, and if it proves positive you then go ahead for further investigation.
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Permalink Reply by mollete on
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Sleep strips are totally inappropriate for use in pediatrics because:
1. The minimum AHI needed for SleepStrip to report an abnormal test is 15. An abnormal OAI in children is one.
2. The minimum duration of respiratory of respiratory event that SleepStrip looks for is 10 seconds, but event definition in children is 2 missed breaths.
3. Consequently, SleepStrip will call most OSA kids incorrectly normal.
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That's correct and we don't sell them for children and clearly state they are not suitable. My son's now 16 and 6'4" which is why I'm going to use one on him. Thanks for the info on why though.
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