Sleep Disorders in Children: Simple Sleep-Related Movement Disorders
1. A description of the symptoms should be provided in the child’s own words 2. Periodic limb movement disorder may develop before symptoms of RLS 3. The interviewer must be…
Algorithm for Differential Diagnosis of Sleep Disorders in Children
Fig. 7.1 Bedtime. Complaint: problems going to bed/problems falling to sleep Parent or caretaker reports the child has one or more of the following symptoms: Difficulty falling to sleep. Difficulty…
New Directions in the Link Between Technology Use and Sleep in Young People
Fig. 4.1 Heath and colleagues [24] comparison of bright iPad screenlight (left) vs screen filtering short-wavelength light using the f.lux app (right; stereopsis.com) Taken together, the abovementioned studies suggest that…
Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children: A Short Primer
AAP guidelines ERS guidelines In a child who snores and has signs or symptoms of OSA, clinicians should perform a more focused evaluation Step 1,2,3 – identification of a child…
Circadian Rhythm Disorders in Childhood
Time of administration in children If used as chronobiotic, administer 2–3 h before dim light melatonin onset or administer melatonin 3–4 h before actual sleep-onset time Dosage Start with a…
Sleep Structure and Scoring from Infancy to Adolescence
Fig. 6.1 Quiet sleep and active sleep in a 3-month-old infant Indeterminate sleep is the period of sleep that cannot be polysomnographically defined as either active or quiet sleep by…
The Discovery of Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Fig. 2.1 Number of publications for each decade in PubMed with search word “sleep” limited to humans and all children (0–18 years) In Fig. 2.2 the total number of publications…
Childhood Sleep and Medical Disorders
Fig. 18.1 Data from the Portuguese national survey – Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) [60], including 3476 students with a mean age of 14 years. The mean BMI is…
Pediatric Insomnia
Infants and children should be put to bed wide awake Bedtime and wake time should remain as consistent as possible Naps should be timed early enough in the afternoon so…
Sleep in Children with Psychiatric and Behavioral Problems
Disorders Subjective children data Objective data Anxiety disorders Parental reports of bedtime fears and rituals, need for co-sleeping and transitional objects. Nighttime waking, nightmares, DOA Reduced SL and SWS Increased…
