Sleep Apnea Treatment

Question by momof2boys: restless leg syndrome in children?
today my 7yr old was diagnosed with restless leg syndrome at tx childrens hospital. we will be doing a sleep study within the next 6 months to see if he also suffers from sleep apnea as well. my main question is that we have been told for 2yrs now that he has adhd and tics. is it possible for adhd to be miss diagnosed and it really be restless leg syndrome.what his doc here didn’t catch was that he has had strep throat 5 time during this last school year and should have had his tonsils out accourding to tch. they did blood work on him today to test iron levels but are pretty certain it is rls

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Answer by sheila_0123
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Question by madeline3: Snoring in young children?
I have an almost 4 year old daughter who snores. When she was 2 1/2 she had her adnoids (they were huge) removed because she was snoring alot which was causing sleep apnea. Now recently she has started snoring again. Can they grow back? Or could it be something else. I can’t get an appt with the dr that did her surgery until the end of May.

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Answer by dylansmom25
she may just have allergies.. my son is 7 he had his adnoids removed then a year later his tonsils removed for snoring. both were enlarged .. it could be anything.. it could be your air is dry and her throat dries out, it could be allergies. my son still snores about half the time. he has also started grinding his teeth at night. but they say nothing is wrong with him. it could just be the position she sleeps in.

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Question by Change Sucks: Overweight versus underweight children…?
I can’t figure out where else to put this question, forgive me if it’s in the wrong place but it pertains directly to parents…
Why is it that society demonizes parents who malnurish/starve their kids BUT then at the same time we are supposed to turn a blind eye so we don’t offend parents who overfeed, causing small children to be sometimes upwards of 50 pounds or more overweight? Both are equally unhealthy, however the overweight child is more likely to just grow up and have many health problems-diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, etc and live with feeling like an outcast. Why do we treat either parent differently than the other? Both do severe damage to their children…
I’m just curious about your thoughts…

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I have three children. By all means I let them have their share of “junk” foods, BUT, it’s in moderation. And yes, it’s hard to withstand the nagging of a child when they want another cookie, but I do because it’s not healthy to keep letting them have them… just saying because I think some would think I may not understand.
Also, in terms of the possibility that a child is just naturally “big boned”, that’s fine. But being a little more stocky is seperate from parents allowing their child to become overweight/obese.
As long as a parent feeds their child a predominantly healthy diet and their child gets daily activity/exercise, then there’s no beef. It’s the parents whose cart at the store is full of frozen pizzas, sodas, doritos, and fruit snacks with no sign of actual food and the parents and/or child is notably overweight.

Honestly, I’m not being insensitive, I’m genuinely curious.
I’m glad you pointed that out-not underweight in terms of being a little slim, but genuinely malnurished/starved.
Our youngest is actually VERY slim for her age/height. I actually try to feed her a little extra because it concerns me, but it’s not a medical problem. She’s just the way she is.

Both make me so sad to see/hear about. I trully believe both should be treated equally because both are equally dangerous, just in their own ways.
Pink-excellent point! Never thought of that… and it’s easier to force feed the underweight than to make drastic lifestyle changes when a person is overweight… wow, lightbulb moment!

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Answer by seattlelvr
I agree and think it has to do with the fact that if your child is malnurished and not being taken care of it could actually constitute as abuse. It’s intentional. I don’t think any parent wants their child to be overweight or obese. They are just ignorant.

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Question by It’s me: Is it possible to get a job working with special needs children without a degree?
I would like to work with special needs children and don’t know where to begin. I had a special needs child (severe brain damage, scoliosis, cerebral palsy, hearing/vision loss, etc.) and he passed away 3 years ago (had severe sleep apnea and died in his sleep before his tracheotomy was performed). I’m very interested in working with young special needs children because as the mother of such a child, I understand:

#1: how difficult it can be caring for such a child.
#2: the fears a parent may have about the quality of care their child is receiving (yes, I understand that this is a fear every parent has, but parents with special needs children have even more to worry about with medical issues).
#3: this would be my chance to honor his memory in a different way, helping children (like him) who require extra care, attention and patience.

Although I have no degree or formal training, I do have 5 years of hands-on experience with my own child, who required frequent E.R. visits, hospital stays, surgeries, countless appointments with specialists, therapy, etc., and feel that I am qualified, at the very least, to care for special needs children in a daycare or classroom environment, or even their own home.

I’m not sure where to begin my search, or what tests I might have to take to show that I am qualified, so any helpful information that might get me started in my search would be greatly appreciated.

(I live in Chicago, so any local information would be great, also)
By the way, I’ve only recently moved to Chicago, my son passed away in Texas. If I were still living there, I would most definitely have already sought out employment at his former daycare or school. If we were well enough off right now with just my husband’s job, I would volunteer without a doubt, but unfortunately with our economy the way it is right now, most families (like ours) require 2 incomes in order to not just scrape by.

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Answer by Riley
i’m not sure how to get a degree, but i’m like 99 percent sure you can’t work with special needs children without a degree. while hands on experience will probably be helpful when you get a job, you said yourself how worried parents are about the quality of care their child is recieving. they will want to be sure you are qualified. i guess look up a school that you could go to (maybe a community college) and take whatever courses are related to what you want to do

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Question by <3: i have most of the symptoms for sleep apnea in adults. but almost none of the ones for children. im 13.?

14 on march the second if that helps..?

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Answer by nahkat
As I understand, deep-sleep apnea is typically associated with obesity and becomes acute during early or late middle age. Onset may be earlier, if the patient had gained too much weight too early.

What really happens is that brain of a complex organism needs rest. Its part that control and regulate vital functions never take a rest. Relatively less important functions are suspended for a while. One of these functions is muscle control. That’s why muscles go limp during deep sleep, including epiglottis that, when active, regulates what should go to the alimentary canal and what is meant to go into trachea.

Muscles that have collected too much flab or overgrown get sucked into trachea, temporarily blocking passage of air to the lungs, thereby waking up the parts of brain to send distressed commands to the unruly muscles. People suffering from deep-sleep apnea risk death due to asphyxiation during sleep.

At your age it is rather unheard of. By the way, you have not given your weight and BMI. Mild snoring may be normal or maybe precurssor of deep-sleep apnea

Please consult a good physicion.

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