sleep apnea

Parents dealing with the stress of the their own child not being able to focus in school or have a difficult time with discipline, and having to put their children on medication is sometimes beyond their control. The interesting information is that instead of jumping into medication so quickly I learned in my Child and Adolescent class that it's important to also look at the sleep patterns of the child or children. 

Sleep Apnea could be causing a child's focus to be minimal and the restlessness during the day due to lack of oxygen the child may be getting during a night’s sleep.

Sleep apnea for definition purposes is impaired ability to breathe while sleeping. People with sleep apnea have breath-less periods of a minute or so from which they awaken gasping for a breath. People usually do not remember or think of not breathing while sleeping so it’s not usually thought of especially when children are not doing well in their daily lives. Sleep apnea results from several causes, including genetics and hormones and in adults it’s usually during middle age and the result of obesity.

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The video that I have chosen is to see other reasons that could be causing children to have problems in their daily routine and instead of jumping into medication so quickly to do some research on sleeping patterns. 

Sleep Apnea does have effects on how humans can suffer throughout a daily basis and I think of the children with this problem and parents not being aware.