Can You Give Melatonin to Children
More than 10% of children have trouble sleeping. Melatonin is a natural, over-the-counter sleeping aid. The authors recommend against using this as a first-line response. First line interventions should be improving bed-time routines, avoidance of caffeine intake, avoidance of TV before bedtime and, for children with ADHD, re-scheduled dosing of stimulant medications. . . .
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An Easy Way to Detect Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
A questionnaire known as the "OSA-18" is a disease-specific quality-of-life questionnaire devised by Franco and colleagues in 2000. However, its ability to accurately diagnose obstructive sleep apnea (when compared to polysomnography or oximetry) had not been previously evaluated. . . .
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Sleepless in Ann Arbor
a study was published on the evaluation of 235 children (3 to 18 years) whose parents suspected sleep-disordered breathing. It was found that more than half of children with sleep-disordered breathing were obese or overweight. . . .
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Snoring Children/Behavior
Sleep-disordered breathing is suggested to affect daytime behavior and neurocognitive performance in children. It is uncertain how this occurs. It is also unknown whether sleep disorders cause problem behaviors and poor cognition or whether curing the sleep disorder can reverse these problems. If there is a cause-effect, it is the intermittent hypoxia at night that is hypothesized to be the mechanism for poor behavior. . . .
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