Snoring, irritability, hyperactivity could all signal a lack of a good night's rest for kids
By Laura Barnhardt Cech 02/15/11
Julie Wiseman got used to hearing her son snore. But when he would suddenly stop snoring, she worried.“There were times I’d go in to check to make sure he was still breathing,” says the mother of two from Middle River. “It was really scary.”
Testing at the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Sleep Center at Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital revealed the problem. Her son, C.J., 16, has two types of sleep apnea, which doctors are optimistic will be corrected by weight loss and the recent removal of the teen’s tonsils and adenoids.
In hindsight, Wiseman suspects that apnea has interfered with her son’s sleep for many years, which may explain why he was always tired during soccer games.
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Symptoms that may warrant a sleep study:
• snoring
• morning headaches
• crankiness
• decreased attention
• trouble falling asleep
• night terrors
• falling asleep during the day (in school-aged children)
• poor growth
• hyperactivity
• chronic congestion
• “mouth breathing”
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