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Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: sleep + kids + often  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)


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Diagnostic criteria for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in children -
JL Carroll, GM Loughlin - Pediatr Pulmonol, 1992 - doi.wiley.com
... In addition, although it has not been well studied, sleep architecture
is often normal in children with OSAS. The ICSD statement ...

Snoring, apneic episodes, and nocturnal hypoxemia among children 6 months to 6 years old. An … -
T Gislason - Chest, 1995 - Am Coll Chest Phys
... Apneic episodes were reported often or very often among seven (1.6%). Altogether
18 children were highly suspected of the sleep apnea syndrome because of ...

Sleep-disordered Breathing in Children -
CL MARCUS - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2001 - Am Thoracic Soc
... Children often desaturate with short apneas, as they have a lower FRC and a ... apneas
of any length are scored when interpreting pediatric sleep studies, as ...

The impact of inadequate sleep on children's daytime cognitive function -
RE Dahl - Seminars in Pediatric Neurology, 1996 - Elsevier
... Objective measures of sleepi- ness (such as the Multiple Sleep Latency Test) have
also revealed that before puberty, children often show less daytime ...

Risk Factors for Sleep-disordered Breathing in Children Associations with Obesity, Race, and … -
S REDLINE, PV TISHLER, M SCHLUCHTER, J AYLOR, K … - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 1999 - Am Thoracic Soc
... number of respiratory events by the estimated sleep time ... In adults, and more so in
children, there is ... threshold is higher than what is often considered abnormal ...

Snoring Children: Factors Predicting Sleep Apnea -
P Nieminen, U Tolonen, H L?pp?nen, T L?pp?nen, J … - Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 1997 - informaworld.com
... that might lead one to suspect the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome ... adults, but due
to ongoing growth and development, these children often have characteristic ...

Symptoms of sleep disorders, inattention, and hyperactivity in children. -
RD Chervin, JE Dillon, C Bassetti, DA Ganoczy, KJ … - Sleep, 1997 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
... Children with sleep disorders are often inattentive or hyperactive, and some carry
a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) until their ...

Sleep-Disordered Breathing and School Performance in Children -
D Gozal - Pediatrics, 1998 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... States, 35 thereby indicating that sleep-disordered breathing may ... 6 in the questionnaire
(How often does your child snore?), 120 of 297 children (40%) surveyed ...

A review of 50 children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome -
C Guilleminault, R Korobkin, R Winkle - Lung, 1981 - Springer
... however, the complaint was more often of children ... thrive was noted in 56% of the
children. ... hospitalization and clinical investigation for sleep apnea syndrome ...

Inattention, Hyperactivity, and Symptoms of Sleep-Disordered Breathing -
RD Chervin, KH Archbold, JE Dillon, P Panahi, KJ … - Pediatrics, 2002 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... excluded. Hyperactive children often have disturbed, restless sleep that
potentially could explain increased daytime sleepiness. 52 ...

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Kids often get unapproved drugs for sleep problems

Last Updated: 2007-08-01 10:49:32 -0400 (Reuters Health)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors commonly prescribe drugs to children and teens with sleep difficulties that are not approved for use by patients in these age groups, a new study shows.

Eighty-one percent of physician visits for sleep problems by children and teens ended in a prescription for some type of medication, most commonly a drowsiness-promoting antihistamine or a sedative, Dr. Sasko D. Stojanovski of The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy in Columbus and colleagues found.

There is currently no Food and Drug Administration-approved medication for treating insomnia in children, the researchers point out.

The reasons that these drugs are prescribed, along with strategies to minimize the use of unapproved drugs in this population need to be examined, the researchers report in the medical journal Sleep.

To better understand how frequently children are prescribed drugs for their sleep problems, Stojanovski and his colleagues looked at data collected between 1993 and 2004 from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey on patients ages 17 or younger, which included roughly 18.6 million physician visits. School-aged children between 6 and 12 years old represented the greatest proportion of these visits.

Doctors recommended diet and nutritional approaches (for example, limiting caffeine in food and beverages) for 7 percent of patients. Psychotherapy was recommended for 12 percent, and mental health and stress management therapy for 17 percent.

However, as mentioned, 81 percent of the young patients were offered a prescription for medication. This included an antihistamine, such as hydroxyzine, in 33 percent; sedative drugs, known as alpha-2 agonists, in 26 percent; benzodiazepines, such as Valium or Ativan, in 15 percent; antidepressants in 6 percent, and non-benzodiazepines in 1 percent. Nineteen percent of the patients were given a combination of drugs.

Psychiatrists were 3.6 times as likely as other doctors to prescribe a medication for sleep problems, while pediatricians were about twice as likely as other physicians to do so.

The researchers point out that their study was unable to investigate whether children were taking over-the-counter sleep-inducing drugs or herbal medicines.

"The findings of this study suggest that physicians frequently prescribed medications for sleep difficulties in children in U.S. outpatient settings," they conclude. "Of particular concern is the prescribing of many unapproved medications for this population."

SOURCE: Sleep, August 1, 2007.

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