Archive for September, 2010
Childhood Sleep Disorders
Childhood Sleep Disorders
In this section, I review some of the common sleep disorders of childhood and how they affect families. Developmental failures in achieving consolidated nighttime sleep and daytime wakefulness, in going to bed and falling asleep easily, in maintaining continuity of sleep, and in circadian regulation of sleep-wake cycles are significant risk factors for potential sleep disorders in infants, children, and adolescents. An understanding of childhood sleep disorders is facilitated by knowledge about the development of both sleep-state architecture and sleep-wake-state temporal organization. The maturation of sleep-wake states has been reviewed elsewhere (Anders and Eiben 1997; Coons and Guilleminault 1982), and only a summary is provided here.
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Preschool Sleep Disorders
Q. I hope you can give us some help. I have a 3 year old grandson who was premature. The problem is that when they finally get him in bed and he goes to sleep he will sleep for about 2-3 hours and then he is up in the middle of the night for another 2-3 hours and then sometimes he will go back to sleep and sometimes not. His mother takes him to the sitter when she goes to work. Sometimes the sitter can get him to take a nap and sometimes not. I have never seen a kid that can go on such little sleep. It is really disrupting the whole house hold and his mother is expecting her second child in about 6 mon. Someone told us that this happens quit often in premature kids, is that true and if so can you recommend a Pediatrician in Omaha, NE that deals with this kind of disorder? Bonnie, Kennard, Nebraska
A. Sleep is important for all children and at age 3 years, he should be sleeping about 11 hours at night and also taking about a 1 hour nap during the day.
By age 3 years, unless he had a lot of other problems and delays associated with being premature, his sleep problems may not have anything to do with his being born premature. Instead, especially if this is a long term problem, he may just have poor sleep associations and doesn’t know how to easily go to sleep on his own.
Abnormal sleep patterns in women linked to stroke
Abnormal sleep patterns in women linked to stroke
NEW YORK | Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:04pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sleep patterns in middle-aged women can increase their risk for stroke, researchers in the United States have found. The greatest increase in stroke risk — 70 percent — was noted among women who slept 9 hours or more per night, according to their report in the medical journal Stroke.
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Lack of Sleep Effects | Effects of Lack of Sleep
Lack of Sleep Effects Sleep Deprivation Consequences And Side Effects
There are many different side effects of lack of sleep you can be feeling every day. It is important not to confuse these sleep deprivation symptoms as being associated with other things in your life so you can get the help you need. The unfortunate thing is many who are experiencing the lack of sleep effects do not associate it with this because they believe they are getting enough sleep.
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Getting Your Child Go To Sleep Early
Remember the old saying regarding going to bed and getting out of it early? Well the news is that it still holds a lot of water. The problem is that the difficulty faced in following it is also the same that your parents faced years ago – to put your ‘energetic’, ever ‘wanting to play’ child to sleep.
When it comes to deciding your child’s time to rest, it should be totally your call. No matter how much your child wants to continue playing, if you think it should be his time to take rest then so be it. The thing which you can keep in mind is that instead of just interrupting him abruptly and forcing him to sleep, you can give him some time to slow down and get prepared to go to sleep.
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Sleep Doctors Offer Sleeping Tips
West Columbia, SC (WLTX) — A program at Lexington Medical Center received accreditation by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, and they offer some helpful tips to help your night’s sleep be more rewarding.
Officials say medical staff evaluate, treat, and provide follow-up care for sleep related disorders like hypersomnia, insomnia, narcolepsy, periodic limb movement disorder, restless leg syndrome, sleep apnea, and snoring.
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Q: Should my baby sleep on his back or on his stomach?
Q: We have a brand-new baby and I’m in a panic about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. My mother-in-law tells me I should put the baby down to sleep on his stomach. But I’m pretty sure that I read that babies should sleep on their backs. Who’s right, and is there anything else I need to know about sleep safety?
A: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which affects otherwise healthy babies, is one of the scariest issues confronting new parents-and there’s good reason: Every year SIDS claims about 7,000 lives. It’s the most common cause of death of children between 1 week and 1 year old, striking about one of every thousand babies. A lot of research has been done on the topic and the experts have determined that it’s possible for parents to reduce the chances of SIDS.
A few years ago, the “Back to Sleep” campaign was launched in response to SIDS. That catchy phrase is meant to remind parents to always put infants to sleep on their backs. Tell this to your mother-in-law.
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Helping Baby Sleep
Helping Baby Sleep: Unique Products With Soothing Sounds, Vibrations, And Pure Relaxing Comfort For Your Little One!
Trying endlessly to find strategies for soothing a “colicky” baby and helping baby sleep? Then, you my friend, have stumbled across the best information and products you can get! Believe me, I have been where you are now and I will give you all the help you need!Relieved? Good, you should be.
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Teen sleep: Why is your teen so tired?
Teen sleep: Why is your teen so tired? Teen sleep cycles may seem to come from another world. Understand why teen sleep is a challenge — and what you can do to promote better teen sleep. By Mayo Clinic staff
Teens are notorious for staying up late at night and being hard to awaken in the morning. Your teen is probably no exception, but it’s not necessarily because he or she is lazy or contrary. This behavior pattern actually has a physical cause — and there are ways to help mesh your teen’s sleep schedule with that of the rest of the world.
A teen’s internal clock
Everyone has an internal clock that influences body temperature, sleep cycles, appetite and hormonal changes. The biological and psychological processes that follow the cycle of this 24-hour internal clock are called circadian rhythms. Before adolescence, these circadian rhythms direct most children to naturally fall asleep around 8 or 9 p.m. But puberty changes a teen’s internal clock, delaying the time he or she starts feeling sleepy — often until 11 p.m. or later. Staying up late to study or socialize can disrupt a teen’s internal clock even more.
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Sleep pods offer respite from HK’s frantic pace of life, work
Sleep pods offer respite from HK’s frantic pace of life, work 
by Staff Writers Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 25, 2008 As Hong Kong’s already-frantic workers cling to their jobs amid the global economic downturn, the hectic and the exhausted are being offered a haven of relaxation in the overcrowded finance hub.
One of the ubiquitous shopping malls in the city’s most frantic shopping district of Causeway Bay has installed high-tech beds where tired executives and exhausted shoppers can escape the fast lane for a quick snooze.
Looking like futuristic first-class airplane seats, the pods are designed to provide overwrought Hong Kongers with 20 minutes of down time during which the city’s sounds and sights are blanked out in total darkness.