Allergies Can Interfere With Child’s Sleep!

Researchers reported on Sunday that allergies could interfere with children’s sleep and daily functioning. The study’s results were based on a telephone survey of 500 doctors who treat children with nasal allergies and 500 adults, half of whom had at least one child with nasal allergies and half with children without allergies.

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, allergies are the most common chronic condition reported in children.

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Different types of allergies can keep your children awake. These allergies cause itchy eyes, watery nose, and sneezing. When your child has these symptoms with allergies, their sleep is disturbed.

With disturbed sleep, their daily functioning such as performance in school, mood, energy, concentration and ability to think are affected.

One can affect with allergies from environment or from the food your child eats. Allergic rhinitis, a common child allergy, is an inflammation of nasal passages that occurs when your child’s body over reacts to an allergen such as pollen, dust mites, dander etc.

When swelling of nasal passages takes place, air flow is blocked, causing congestion. Nasal congestion can affect child’s sleep in many ways. Nasal congestion makes difficulty in breathing through nose.

Breathing through mouth makes more difficult to sleep and the body tries to breathe nasally, which disturbs the sleep further. Pain or pressure present in your nose can prevent your child from falling asleep.

In some children, inhaling allergens can cause nocturnal wheezing. This sleep disturbed wheezing occurs when the bronchioles, the tubes that carry air to lungs, constrict.

Air flow is reduced by the constricted bronchioles. Therefore, wheezing occurs when air moves through these narrow tubes.

Avoid allergies for good night sleep

Allergens can affect the quality of sleep in children, making them sleep deprived. Sleep deprivation affects overall health of your child and prevents from defending against allergens that cause symptoms.

Avoid allergens that cause allergy in your child. Keep hypoallergenic bedding and pillows in your kid’s room to avoid dust allergy. Do not allow pets into bedroom as pet dander can cause allergies. If your child is allergic to certain foods, try to eliminate those foods for your child.

When the pollen count is high, do not allow your child to go outside. Keep windows closed when pollen count is high and use air conditioners. Use vacuum cleaners to remove dust from the beds, windows and other corner places.