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Re: N in young children?

Posted by Dugsy on January 28, 2004 at 15:01:41:

In Reply to: N in young children? posted by FourPeas on January 21, 2004 at 18:08:39:

Have you considered the fact that your child may be overtired? If his sleep debt is severe, he could be getting a lot of sleep in attempt to catch up. Narcolepsy cannot be determined until sleep debt is diminished. That is, if one has been chronically sleep deprived, you cannot expect to go in for a sleep test and be ensured the findings are accurate.
After I was diagnosed with multiple sleep disorders, I educated myself on children's sleep. We were already having problems with our son at 8 months. Basically we worked with the sleep doctor and things are fine now. The problems were several, but the biggest one was that we had IMPROPER KNOWLEDGE of a child's need to sleep. How much, how many naps, how long.... According to our sleep doctor, many cases of ADD are determined to be sleep deprivation, specially in children.
ou did not mention how long your child sleeps at night. If he wakes to go to go to school early and does not get around 11 hours of sleep per day, he is getting too little for his age.
We too gave our son Benadryl at first for about a year. The first thing the sleep doc did was to take him off of this medication to allow our son to learn to fall asleep without it. The first few nights were hard, but once our son started getting the sleep he needed he actually SLEPT MORE. "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" by Dr. Marc Weissbluth explains all and was recommended by my sleep doctor.

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