Nowadays, our living standard has improved so much that there are more and more fat children around us, and more and more children with snoring in bed. Snoring can affect the intellectual development of children, and snoring can lead to lack of sleep and reduced sleep quality, which in turn can seriously affect children’s academic performance, and growth and development.
There are many reasons for children’s open mouth breathing and snoring, such as chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, chronic tonsillitis, tonsillar hypertrophy, adenoid hypertrophy, and overgrown uvula. If the adenoids and tonsils in the nasopharynx are significantly enlarged, they will block the posterior nostril and obstruct the upper respiratory tract, and symptoms such as nasal congestion, runny nose, hearing loss, open-mouth breathing and snoring will appear. Parents should promptly take their children to a regular hospital for examination to determine the cause of the disease and provide timely treatment.
Medical research shows that a 5-year-old child needs 11 hours of sleep a day on average, a 9-year-old child needs 10 hours of sleep a day, and a child in high school needs 9 hours of sleep a day. We as parents always pay less attention to such numbers and don’t take them to heart, because 85% of children nowadays have sleep deprivation problems and 15% of them doze off in class. And snoring is often the cause of poorer grades and behavioral problems in children.
Many parents think that poor sleep is not a big deal because their children are small and eat a lot, and therefore do not pay attention to it. Parents also do not realize that long-term sleep disorders often interfere with the normal sleep rhythm, making children inattentive during the day, affecting learning, which leads to intellectual developmental disorders, while the lack of deep sleep at night, affecting the body growth. Especially open-mouth breathing, children who have snoring and open-mouth breathing problems in early childhood, even if they stop these behaviors later, will still make the learning ability in adolescence affected.
Snoring in bed is just so powerful for children and often leads to memory loss, concentration loss, slow reaction time, irritability, anxiety, depression, etc. Therefore, it is important to ensure that children get enough sleep.
Parents ask: My child has enough sleep, but why is he or she still in a trance during the day? This may be a problem with the child’s sleep quality, or the child’s sleep disorder! Parents do not want to let sleep snoring that
affect the child’s intellectual and physical development, and for children with severe snoring, professional treatment should be carried out as soon as possible.