There is no human being on earth who has never
suffered from sleep disorders, but because this
problem can be controlled, it faces children at every
stage of their life, and there are suggested solutions
for it according to the child's age, and where some
solutions and proposals are presented by family
doctors, and where it indicates that Sleep disturbance
is subject to several reasons, as follows :
Sleep disorders at the age of Nativity
- It occurs in the first months of life due to the feeling
of colic and bloating.
- The newborn feels the need for his mother to stay
with him and smell her, so he cries because of that.
- His sleep is disturbed by feeling cold or hot.
- worried and erratic sleep due to illness such as
teething pain.
- In the event of a stuffy nose, or middle ear pain.
Sleep disorders in early childhood
- The child's feeling of jealousy and persecution.
- The child does not receive love and affection from
those around him.
- Feelings of fear, intimidation, and harm.
- Feeling sick and feeling a high temperature,
especially causing the child what is known as a hiccup.
- The child's feeling of cold, hunger and heat are
among the feelings that lead to sleep disturbances.
- The child sleeps in high-light, noisy.
Sleep disorders in children at school age
- The child's suffering from involuntary urination, and
what causes him to be wet.
- The child feels sick, especially tonsillitis and nasal
obstruction, at school due to infection.
- Infection of the child with a pinworm infection,
which causes him to be disturbed by anal itching, so he
becomes anxious and disturbed his sleep.
- The child's feeling of fear of school and being
subjected to abuse by someone or being bullied by
colleagues.
Methods of treating children’s sleep
disorders
- Allocate a separate room for the child at an early age.
- Love and tenderness in the family, reading stories at
a young age, singing and chanting to the child.
- Solve the health problems of the child at every age.
- Endure infant insomnia due to gas and colic, which
relieves as they age.
- Searching for external causes that expose the child to
sleep disorders and treating them.