How to recognize sleep disorders in children?
Sleep time in children is said to have not a normal situation if:
1. Children awake for 3 or more times in one night or several nights. Or at least four times a week under such interference exists.
2. In her sleep outside the usual activities, move children to sleep on the bed's parents
3. Child refuses to sleep at least 30 minutes during sleep time, sleep begins to start a little angry or agitated.
4. In initiating sleep aid should be required before parents can sleep when their own.
In addition, parents must also consider the psychological condition of children by improving the pattern of care, quality of touch, and identify your temperament and environmental factors must be supportive. Because sleep is a learned behavior that can be formed through the routine and good sleep habits.
Science and research on sleep problems in children, still not much is revealed. So it is still unclear revealed the cause of sleep disorders in children. Various conjectures and assumptions developed in response to sleep disorders in children. Various causes are often called emosial state-psychological disorders, high fever, stress or disrupted sleep position.
Cause
According to the author of the study of sleep disorders in children is often caused by food allergy insomnia. Food Allergy Insomnia is a sleep disorder to initiate and maintain sleep quality is caused due to the manifestation or response due to food allergies.
The incidence of food allergy insomnia is still not known with certainty, but it seems that this disorder is often experienced, especially at the age of children under age 5 years, especially the age 2 years.
Research had been conducted in the year 2004 Widodo Judarwanto which have been raised in an international scientific event 24th International Congress of Pediatrics Cancun, Mexico 15-20 August 2004, showed that of 64 children with food allergy disorders and sleep disorders, after the elimination of food allergens during the 3 weeks, showed improvement.
According to the study, 97% of children repair of his sleep patterns, obtained 42 (66%) children had a food allergy insomnia, 12 (19%) children with somnambulisme, 8 (13%) children with night-terror, 32 (50%) children with nocturnal myoclonus.
Somnambulisme is a state change of consciousness, sleep-wake phenomena occur at the same time. When sleep sufferers sometimes do the usual motor activity such as walking, dressing or going to the bathroom, talking, screaming, even driving a car. End of these activities sometimes sufferers awake, then a moment of confusion and falling asleep again. He does not remember the incident.
Night terror usually occurs at the beginning of a third bed, with symptoms suddenly woke up at midnight accompanied by the shouts, cries of panic or fear and anxiety accompanied by crying hysterically and insights that lead to one point as if afraid of something that is not visible, in the event of such This connects with a lot of things mystical. Patients sometimes awake but confused and disoriented. At the time of the attack is difficult awakened or comforted.
Nocturnal myoclonus is a situation where there are periodic movements of the legs down when sleeping.
So far no studies that confirm the cause and result of sleep disorders can cause many dangerous things. Various studies indicate children with sleep disorders are often accompanied by increased aggressive behavior such as, impaired school performance, increased emotion and learning disorders. While many scientific reports indicate that food allergy sufferers are also often accompanied accompanied by increased behavioral disorders.
Increased behaviors that are often reported as follows.
1. Emotions rise
2. Children are very active, restless
3. Impaired concentration (which affects the lessons at school)
4. Autism and ADHD patients, occur during sleep disturbance was made also increased behavioral disorders
Disturbances in the organ suspected of allergy sufferers sleep may interfere with the child as follows.
1. Gastrointestinal disorders.
Abdominal pain in children who experience gastrointestinal disturbances caused by allergy suspected as the cause. But unfortunately at the age under 2 years of this complaint can not be disclosed child. But the clinical clues that can be expressed as abdominal pain, usually children with stomach disorders are often accompanied by uncomfortable sleeping positions like someone fell down or stomach. Gastrointestinal symptoms are usually in the form of bloating, often dispose of the wind, vomiting, difficult bowel movements.
2. Impaired airway
Nose clogged, congested breathing, coughing and shortness. This condition occurs in children with rhinitis and asthma alergi.
3. Skin disorders.
Patients with allergic dermatitis itch complaints often arise at night.
4. Muscle pain, bone and fibromyalgia.
In food allergy sufferers often experience muscle and bone pain.
5. Electrical disturbances in the brain. On EEG examination in patients with allergies and asthma found particular wave activity increases during the night.
Prevention
Give milk to your child before he was asleep because milk contains tryptophan, which can make the children sleep soundly.
In addition, the avoidance of food allergens in children should be properly examined, because it occurred at risk for nutritional disorders. So that the patient should be notified parents about food substitute that is not less than the nutritional content of food allergens. Avoidance of cow's milk can be substituted with soya milk, formula or casein hydrolyzate from whey., Even though the child is allergic to cow's milk 30% of them are allergic to soya milk. Vegetables can be used as a substitute for fruit. Tofu, tempeh, beef or lamb can be used as substitute for eggs, chicken or fish.
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