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Sleep problems in children: What is the treatment
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Sleep problems in children have causes and symptoms, some of which may require immediate intervention, where could include therapeutic intervention with medication or behavioral therapy. This article is to get to know some of these problems:
The more things faced by parents with their children in childhood is the sleep problems in children. Since there are severe symptoms require therapeutic intervention behavioral and sometimes need to enter medicine. More importantly, the integration of the parents and involve them in the application of treatment to help their child in alleviating these symptoms.
About 30% -40% of infants and children in pre-school suffer from these problems, and the most prominent symptoms are common in children over one year of age are walking during sleep.
This has conducted a study published in the Australian Medical Journal in 2014 - The Medical Journal of Australia - about sleep problems in children, the study indicated that the health references recommends that the duration of sleep should be as follows:
Babies sleeping 16-18 hours a day, including 3.4 hours divided between day and night.
Children age 6 months and enjoy good health sleep more than six hours at night.
Children over 18 months sleep long at night as well as daytime nap.
School-age children are sleeping 11-12 hours straight at night.
The study results showed that sleeping hours when the kids progressively less as they get older, for a rate of sleeping hours from 10 hours to up to 8 hours when they reach the age of 16.
The effects of sleep problems in children
Weak growth
Behavioral effects on the child's educational negative
Mental state worse and affecting the quality of life.
And this totally very important because it effects the psychological situation worse and affecting the quality of life for the child and family together. But some parents do not care for it and do not wake up to the importance of treatment, and they believe it will disappear with the passage of time and gradually whenever Kpralotfl. But on the contrary, since the parents to consult a doctor about these disorders, the diagnosis of the situation of children helps to relieve anxiety and psychological pressure when parents.
The study said the most important causes of sleep problems in children:
1. sleep phenomena / Khtal sleep (Parasomnia)
Khtal my sleep disorders involve a type of abnormal behavior during sleep, such as walking or talking. It can be classified into two groups:
primary sleep disorders a sleep first.
secondary sleep, which other devices that may appear during sleep systems disorders, including heart, and dyskinesia of the respiratory system and Gastroesophageal reflux).
Symptoms
Sudden partial awakening linked Pal confusion and confusion.
Screaming child as he slept in panic, as it increasingly has a heartbeat and an increase in the rate of breathing, sweating, express the same fear. and be like the awakening of sleep and are often in the middle of snoozing where the child does not remember what happened to him.
Sleepwalking, or thrills with complex motor behaviors during sleep, such as walking, running, talk or eat. The sound seems to see the child during a walking asleep. This situation lasts between several minutes to an hour, where you not shift more than that.
Nightmares and night terrors: night shifts occur during sleep and is usually diagnosed subjecting the child to the study of sleep for one night. And affects the child crying, screaming, and walking, movement and can treat the condition with medication.
Paralysis occurs near the beginning or end of sleep or while waking up.
Grinding moving teeth during sleep or gnashing of teeth, which is very common where the evidence indicates that it is associated with other medical problems or psychological. In some cases, may be used devices are placed in the mouth to reduce injuries teeth.
Dealing with these disorders and treatment
As we are dealing with insomnia behavioral modification to improve sleep habits and restrict time in bed, in collaboration with the family where the parents are required to withdraw gradually from their stay with their children sleep duration with identifying hours sleep to become a pattern when the baby.
Request for infants and children the attention by the parents to stay by his side during sleep or asking what they used to be accompanied in their sleep, like a doll, or are used to delude the way shook the bed, as well as some of them accustomed to hearing music and thus ease the number of times waking up during the night.
Do not allow your children to watch television and use of electronic games about an hour before bedtime.
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