Children are the heart of their parents, and whether they can grow up healthily or not is the most important thing that parents are concerned about. If the child has sleep apnea, then the parents will be anxious and want to know if sleep apnea is a serious disease. Today we will find out what happens when a child has sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious condition. Symptoms of sleep apnea include snoring, inability to sleep on the back, and slow growth. In addition to the common symptoms of snoring, sleep disturbance and open-mouth whistling, children with sleep apnea also suffer from bedwetting, excessive sweating at night, abnormal sleeping postures, and recurring respiratory tract infections. Most children with sleep apnea have mild symptoms. Sleep apnea can lead to problems with growth, learning and behavior. In severe cases, it can lead to heart and lung problems and high blood pressure. This is extremely detrimental to a child’s healthy development. Anxious parents are not the solution once their child develops sleep apnea, so take your child to the hospital as soon as possible to find out the cause. There are three types of sleep apnea: 1, obstructive sleep apnea, which is caused by obstruction; 2, central sleep apnea, in which there is no obstruction, but the brain can not send signals to make the muscles whistle; 3, mixed apnea is a combination of both. Of these, obstructive sleep apnea is the most common sleep apnea, which is not just a disease of the respiratory system, but involves multiple organs, systems and disciplines. In order to prevent serious obstructive sleep apnea complications, it must be detected and treated early without delay.