Posts Tagged ‘Children’
Insomnia in children
Infants and adults are not the only ones who have trouble sleeping or insomnia. In fact many children and adolescents who have problems sleeping.
Not sleeping well can affect mood and behavior of children during the day, leading to problems at school and discipline. Like adults, children with insomnia or have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, are not well rested and in addition to daytime sleepiness, symptoms of insomnia in children may include:
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How to limit children’s TV
When children engage with their favorite cartoon characters no one can remove them from the television screen. Not bad for our kids to have fun watching children’s programs. The danger is when too many hours (4 to 6 hours daily) that pass in front of the TV.
What can we do to limit exposure to television on children? It is recommended that exposure time does not exceed 2 am daily. If you have children “couch potato”, consider these tips:
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Syndrome of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children
What is the syndrome of obstructive sleep apnea in children (OSAS)?
This condition can be observed in children between the year and six appear in 2-3% of children. It is characterized by the child snores so striking, breathes with mouth open and also have periods of apnea (breathing pauses long) of at least 10 seconds and lack of oxygen in the blood. It is the most common sleep pathology in both children and adults.
What causes it?
Most cases of obstruction of the upper airway in children is caused by hypertrophy of the adenoids and tonsils, but we must consider other possibilities such as deviated septum, polyps, laryngomalacia, etc. ..
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Nightmares in Children
When we sleep our mind is still active. Dreaming is an involuntary mental process in which our brain assimilates information (images, memories, thoughts …) in our memory. If something worries or much round we head into our subconscious can take them during sleep. Our mind creates a virtual reality that will solve problems or to be an outlet to escape from reality. They tend to concentrate in REM (Rapid Eye Movement) or what is the same as REM (rapid eye movements), and can remember waking up all or part of the dream, again depending on the type of dream we’ve had.
Nightmares are dreams that cause us fear or terror and awaken the patient out of REM sleep. Nightmares may be recurrent and repetitive and can be given to several in the same night. Between 10% and 50% of the population have nightmares and it’s the same with children. Nightmares usually occur in children from 2 years, but are most common in children 3 to 5 years. It is unknown what the specific cause of why children have nightmares, but was related to the stress and anxiety.
If you do not warn and / or are not prepared may appear behaviors that hinder normal rest, as childhood fears to sleep, darkness, or refuse to go to bed or the need to sleep with the lights on.
Sleepwalking
Many parents are worried and frightened when they discover that your child gets up and goes home at night, while asleep. This is a problem which is talked about much, but unfamiliar. Should clarify what it is, what dangers involved and how to treat.
1. What is sleepwalking?
It consists in getting out of bed and go sleep in the house, sometimes with eyes open.
There is no intention in the movement and the child does not know what you’re doing, you can get to do routine tasks such as washing hands, eating, etc.. but unconsciously.
The sleepwalker nor dreams, but is asleep.
Sleepwalking is not dangerous in itself, what happens is that in some cases may be harmful during walks around the house.
Like night terrors, when the child wakes up, have no recollection of what happened.
Regarding the incidence of this disorder is estimated that about 15% of children have been sleepwalking ever and that most exceeds the reach adulthood. The age at which most frequently occurs is between 13 and 15. Sleepwalking tends to affect men and women equally.