How do breathing problems cause children to have a sleep disorder?
When we talk about problems with breathing, for multiple reasons, most common usually being enlarged adenoids or tonsils, during your sleep, you’re obstructed – your air passages obstruct and you actually can’t breathe. And nature has phenomenal alarm mechanisms built in so that when your body senses that you can’t get enough oxygen or your carbon dioxide levels are going up, you automatically wake up. You arouse so that you can change your body position or do something to get air into your body. Now, you can imagine if you’re having difficulties like that at night with breathing, you can wake up multiple times and these don’t have to be, necessarily, where you wake up and look around, these might be fractions of a second where you are rousing to just read just your airway in order to breathe. And that’s going to affect your quality of life – okay? – your quality of sleep which will affect your quality of life.
