Are pediatricians being trained to handle sleep apnea?
As many of you already know sleep apnea isn’t just for middle-aged people who are overweight. Potential victims of sleep apnea cover a much wider range than that, young adults and children may also experience the dangerous effects of sleep apnea. We don’t hear much about children having sleep apnea ; usually you read about how older folks try to cope with it by using the CPAP machine or a dental device or maybe even surgery. But some children do suffer from it. What is really surprising is something that I read the other day that a lot of pediatricians aren’t being trained to handle sleep apnea. Sleep apnea isn’t the only sleep disorder that children, including infants, can have. Bedwetting is something that a lot of parents have to deal with as well as night terrors where the child will wake up terrified. Snoring can also be a problem. According to an article in Medscape “ The vast majority of pediatricians believe it is their role to advise parents or guardi...