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Symptoms of disease - sleep disorders in children

Sleep disorders - a phenomenon quite common. From 8 to 15% of the adult population of the world have frequent or persistent complaints of poor or inadequate sleep, from 9 to 11% of adults consume sedative hypnotics means, and among the people of elderly age, this percentage is much higher.



Which diseases there is sleep disorders in children

The most frequent reason for concern of the parents at night is a weeping or «plain» the child in a dream.

Sounds during sleep is normal variant - this is called «physiological night crying». Assume that in such a way find a way out day emotions and impressions baby, probably, during the phase of sleep with dreams.

In addition, the physiological weeping is «scanning» option: baby checks the presence of the parents and the ability to get support and comfort. Not having received the confirmation, he wakes up and cries have to really. However, the immediate response even at low murmur of the sounds of the night by the child can bring to unnecessary complications. The kid has no possibility to learn to cope with his night of loneliness yourself, to relax, respectively and in the future it every night will require the attention of parents.

The ability of complacency in the age of 1 year has been developing in 60-70% of children.

Another reason for concern of parents are nocturnal awakening the child, during which requires the participation of adults.

Awakening at night is a normal element of sleep, it comes under the influence of any incentives during your stay in certain stages of sleep (sleep or dream). Because of these stages are replaced with the certain periodicity, called sleep cycles (baby it 50-60 min.), then and opportunities for awakening a few times during the night.

Children under the age of 1 year of waking up on an average 1-2 times a night, then, in most cases, immediately fall asleep. With heightened attention on the part of parents, inability to relax these initially natural awakening to grow in sleep disorders.

Often parents turn to the doctor about wince of the child in a dream (when the are appointed by various surveys, did not reveal any pathology).

At the present time it is established, that startle when falling asleep and during surface stages of sleep is a natural phenomenon, related to the change of the nervous excitability in transition functional States (from wakefulness to sleep and between the stages of sleep), they are called «myoclonus».

In small children, this phenomenon can appear bright in connection with the fact that the brake mechanisms of the nervous system is insufficiently developed in the future severity of wince will decrease.

Often children ore and an early age are observed insomnia - difficulty falling asleep and/or maintenance of uninterrupted sleep of the child during the night.

Doctors share insomnia on primary, where the sleep disturbance is a major problem and develops itself, and the secondary problem of sleep, reflecting the existence of any other disease, often neurological, so as a function of sleep organizes it is the nervous system.

For example, in the national children's neurological practice in children of the first year of life at detection of infringements of nervous regulation (change in muscle tone, increased excitability) often are diagnosed with the «perinatal nervous system», respectively, the most often sleep disorders in these children associated precisely with pathology of the nervous system.



Which doctor should I contact if there is a sleep disorders in children

  • Somnologist
  • Neurologist
  • Psychologist
  • Psychiatrist


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