Child snoring home remedies

When should you be concerned about snoring in your child?

Severe cases of snoring can interrupt the normal breathing cycle of your child.

When snoring is accompanied by breath holding (apnoea), where your child stops breathing for several seconds, it is called obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA).

In OSA, the levels of oxygen in their bloodstream drop due to their breath holding.

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Their brain consequently detects that their breathing has stopped and briefly wakes them up to open their airways again.

This cycle of breath holding and waking can significantly affect your child’s quality of sleep, leaving them sleepy, irritable and unable to concentrate during the day.

There is increasing evidence that, if left untreated, OSA can negatively affect a child’s quality of life, learning and performance at school. Extremely rarely, untreated OSA may lead to significant heart and lung problems ie pulmonary hypertension and heart failure.

Signs that your child has OSA include:

• Daytime sleepiness 
• Deterioration in their behaviour 
• De
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