Is it Sleep Apnea, ADHD, or Lack of Parental Sleep Boundaries?

The PedsDocTalk Podcast

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Parenting

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Sleep apnea and ADHD can greatly impact sleep, but are often not discussed when discussing a sleep quality evaluation. On this episode, I welcome back Dr. Shelby Harris, a licensed clinical psychologist who is board-certified and specializes in behavioral sleep medicine. We discuss: How sleep apnea and ADHD affect your child’s sleep and behavior When to be concerned about your child’s sleep Is it parenting or something more? Connect on Instagram @sleepdocshelby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The first thing I'm always going to ask is,
0:02.4	does your child snore?
0:03.6	Do they have any pauses in their breathing?
0:05.3	Consistently, like not just when they have a hole or something.
0:08.1	And if that's happening, then I'm immediately
0:10.7	going to send for a referral for sleep evaluation,
0:13.2	whether it be for the N.T, a pediatric sleep center,
0:16.0	because what we see happen a lot of times,
0:18.4	especially in like the four to six age range,
0:21.1	is that their tonsils and an adenoids begin to crowd their airway.
0:24.4	Their airway doesn't grow as fast as the tonsils an adenoids to it.
0:28.1	And as a result, that crowds the airway.
0:30.7	There's more sleep disruption, more sleep apnea happens and if we actually
0:34.6	keep the sleep apnea guess what happens they have our issues.
0:37.6	Welcome back to the Pea's Doc Talk Podcast this podcast continues to grow because of you the fact that you return every week to listen to our
0:45.6	conversations that I have with guests the fact that you leave review so thank you so much for joining me today
0:50.7	I get to chat with the most incredible people to help guide us in our parenting
0:54.7	journey and today is a return guest, Dr. Shelby Harris. She is a licensed clinical psychologist,
1:00.7	board certified and specializing in behavioral sleep medicine and she was on the show already
1:05.7	talking about if children can outgrow not being an independent sleeper it's an amazing
1:11.8	conversation so make sure to check that out. But today we're talking about
1:15.9	is it sleep apnea ADHD or is it a lack of sleep boundaries? Thank you so much for joining me
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