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ADHD And The Relationship With Sleep

Poor sleep may be a cause for ADHD

I have already mentioned in previous posts that the symptoms of sleep disorders may be misdiagnosed as ADHD.  We all know that when our kids are exhausted they don’t typically act like we do as adults.  Where we would be exhausted, they might have the opposite reaction and become overly excited and active.  Those children also have extreme difficulties turning there “on” button to an “off” position when it comes to lying down and actually falling asleep.

 there is enough research out there to prove that sleep loss on a daily basis can affect a child’s ability to learn 
According to this article, a study of 866 children who have sleep disorders are almost twice as likely to suffer from ADHD than those whose sleep well.  There are two main sleep disorders that researchers have found correlated with ADHD.  The first is Sleep Disturbed Breathing and the second is Restless Leg Syndrome or Periodic Limb Movement; both cause a disruption in sleep.  Science Daily reports from a study performed that children diagnosed with ADHD on average had a total of 33 minutes less sleep than the control group.  This also dramatically reduced the REM sleep time by 16 minutes.

There hasn’t been enough evidence to completely link the two together as a whole, but there is enough research out there to prove that sleep loss on a daily basis can affect a child’s ability to learn which could lead to ADHD like symptoms.  ADHD is one of the most prevalent problems today and numerous sources suggest that 25-50% of those children suffer from some type of sleep disorder.  Improving the sleep disorder could help decrease the symptoms of ADHD.

 

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