Child Sleep Disorders
Sleep Disorders in Children
Children can also have Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) or more likely Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB).
Children with sleep-disordered breathing may present with a wide range of symptoms, including behavioural concerns such as aggression, learning difficulties, poor concentration, bed wetting, failure to thrive, delayed growth, difficulty falling asleep or waking in the morning, loud snoring, restless or sweaty sleep, night terrors, and sleep walking.
Risk factors for children include:
- Enlarged tonsils and adenoids
- Asthma
- Obesity
- Facial differences such as; small jaw and large tongue
Snoring in children
is not cute...
Snoring in children should never be dismissed. It is not “cute” and is not something children simply grow out of. Snoring indicates an obstruction to breathing during sleep and, in children, this can be serious. If left untreated, sleep-disordered breathing may lead to long-term health and developmental consequences.
Common risk factors for sleep disorders in children include enlarged tonsils and adenoids, asthma, obesity, and certain facial characteristics such as a small jaw or enlarged tongue.
Untreated Sleep Disordered Breathing can lead to long-term damage.
A child may present with symptoms such as:
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Aggressiveness
- Learning difficulties
- Poor concentration
- Bed wetting
- Failure to thrive
- Slow growth
- Difficulty with sleeping and waking in the morning
- Snoring
- Restless and sweating while sleeping
- Night terrors and sleep walking
How We Can Help
Dusk Till Dawn Sleep Centre offers comprehensive in-home sleep studies for children to monitor breathing and sleep patterns overnight. Each study is professionally set up in the child’s home or in clinic, by experienced sleep technicians and manually scored by paediatric sleep scientists. All studies are approved and reported by a Paediatric Sleep Physician, with follow-up telehealth reviews recommended with a Sleep Physician and/or an Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialist.
Dusk Till Dawn Sleep Centre is the only centre outside of Brisbane to offer in-home paediatric sleep studies.
