My Life and Sleep Apnea

For a lot of children getting enough sleep is a big problem. Getting the children to bed is also a very big problem for the parents especially as they get older. But it has to be dealt with because sleep is very important to emotional as well as physical growth. And children need a lot more sleep than adults . Believe it or not infants usually sleep up to 16 hours a day in 3 to 4 hour intervals. (I know that is hard to believe!). Whereas teenagers should get around 9 hours according to the American Sleep Disorder Association. I doubt if that happens either. As for how much sleep an adult needs is around 7 or hours depending on the person (and depending if you have children). Like you children can also have sleep disorders even the worse kind, sleep apnea, which can appear at any age. Sleep problems for children Sleep apnea can be found in infants as well as younger children. Blockage is usually due to enlarged tongues.  Bedwetting or nocturnal enuresis is probably the mo...

Sleep apnea seems to have a host of irritating side effects. The worse one is not getting enough rest, which leads to a plethora of problems. Another one that you might not have thought of is bedwetting ; both children and adults experience this frustrating problem.   Bedwetting or nocturnal enuresis is divided into 2 groups:   Primary nocturnal enuresis, which is the most common form of bedwetting, is where young children continue to wet their bed after the age where the majority of children stay dry.   Secondary nocturnal enuresis where the child or adult starts to wet their bed after an extended period of being dry.   In children the main reason for bedwetting or PNE is the delay of being able to tell when they have to urinate and their ability to hold their bladder. Heredity also can play a part in bedwetting in that if one of the parents were a bed wetter then there is a 40 percent chance that the child would be too. Children who have s...