The business of treating sleep disorders is booming these days, possibly because of all the press that sleep deprivation is getting. Not to mention the nearly epidemic proportions that people are diagnosed with some form of shuteye challenges.
Children are not immune to sleep disorders, either. From infants and toddlers to tweens and teens, the health of a child’s sleep quality is also getting the full court press from doctors and researchers alike.
Disrupted sleep in babies and toddlers can clue parents in on the possibility of a sleep disorder. A snoring child may be cute like a kitten, but can affect the child’s ability to learn, for instance. Even bed wetting can actually be caused by a sleep disorder.
Cute like a kitten. Hmmm. One of my friends recently left a voicemail message for me about her snoring cat. “I just love a cat that snores,” she says. At the time, her Kitty was snoring loudly–apparently having a dream, twitching a little bit, being the cute kitten that he is.
And all I could think about was getting him to a kitty sleep study. Perhaps this is what happens when your kids are kitty-kids, I don’t know. But I think I can relate to parents who have the same worry about their human kid.
.Janet Muniz
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Wed, Apr 8, 2009
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