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Facts About Sleep Disordered Breathing in Children less than 12 years of Age

  • 10% of children snore normally and are called habitual snorers
  • 1% of children have significant obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
  • 15% of children with OSA do not snore
  • Children need 9-12 hours of sleep
  • Devices such as iPhones that emit blue light reset the bodies clock by 1-hour if viewed for 5-15 minutes before bed. The same for bright lights.
  • The history is not reliable in diagnosing sleep apnea in most cases
  • Children with OSA present with difficulty in getting out of bed in the morning, daytime tiredness and changes in academic performance, behaviour concerns and either a persistence of bedwetting or a relapse of bedwetting
  • Behaviour concerns include being hyperactive, inattentiveness,irritability and aggression. Symptoms are similar to ADHD
  • The 6 year old with OSA becomes sometimes becomes the 16-year old with anxiety and depression.
  • The most common cause of OSA in children is enlarged tonsils and adenoids
  • 75% of children who have their tonsils and adenoids removed improve.
  • Increasingly it is believed that OSA in kids leads to OSA in adults
  • New technology now allows for screening for sleep apnea and other sleep disorders in children. It is done at home. The results are equivalent to an in-lab overnight study except that there is no audiovisual camera which mxaymiss the parasomnia’s of sleep walking and sleep talking.
  • The new technology of in home sleep studies is not currently covered by OHIP or most insurance plans and has a cost of $400.

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