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poor baby!

I am no doctor but I really wish someone had written a thoughtful case study on sleep apnea and paediatric ENT issues that I could have read a few years back. I am talking real experiences and examples. Details were few and far between. I am in no way qualified to diagnose anyone or give medical advice, but I felt like writing this post because this is an experience that might help anyone recognize a similar situation and I LOVE trawling the interweb for like-minded nerds to probe about their issues when WebMd just doesn’t cut it.

In layperson’s terms, there are basically two types of sleep apnoea: neurological and obstructive, the latter being the most straightforward for obvious reasons. It is the only one of which we have any experience. Most people don’t realize that sleep apnoea is neurologically damaging in the long run as essentially it stifles oxygen supply to the brain and can, apparently, trigger ADHD behaviour, impair concentration, and cognitive function. Adenoidal and tonsil tissue, we were told, is basically a bacteria-magnet, like a gross wet sponge harbouring crap even when they appear in relative good health. The adenoids, when enlarged can press against the ear canal leading to contamination from the nose and throat to the ear. This is particularly the case when your kid is horizontal as any infected mucus can wash back and converge in the middle of the head, where all three ENT areas meet. I hope this post is irrelevant to you and maybe your kid is just a sweaty little light sleeper and all this will bore you to tears but I thought it best to share as you never know….

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In my adult years I basically decided to give cutting out milk a bit of a whirl. Never in an extreme, ‘vegan’ way, but in a “a bit of a clear-up is needed” thrust of pseudo-detoxification. I never really mentally joined the dots in terms of my dairy consumption and my sluggish physical eliminatory responses but my body must have felt under assault, stressing eliminatory organs (skin, intestines) and triggering inflammatory responses in my mucus membranes. Hands up, I am not a doctor nor nutritionist. I am however very body aware and well-read when it comes to health, diet and nutrition, albeit as a layperson. Will we one day revise our view of dairy, in the way we have come around to understanding the roll sugar has to play on our systems? Who knows, maybe it is just another fad. I always think of the fabulously deflating Christ Rock sketch about allergies: Chris Rock – Allergies. Anyway for me, as a half Italian with regular stints in the homeland, I find it hard to reconcile my urban, cleaner, London eating style with the traditional, milennia-old grand culinary traditions of my roots which happily incorporates plenty of white wheat pasta, milk etc. I have yet to find a convincing replacement for milk in the perfect caffe-latte coffees that I love more than anything when I return home. My mind is willing to eliminate but my body is weak. It is my Italian Paradox.

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A mum’s experience of sleep apnoea in children

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