A short conversational transcript from a YouTube video by Hallie Bulkin about obstructive sleep apnea occurring in very young children (example: age three). Speakers discuss that pediatric obstructive sleep apnea does occur despite common belief, and one speaker relates a personal case: their son had loud snoring, thumb-sucking, very large tonsils and adenoids, was first identified around age three and is now 10; the speaker learned about the condition about eight years ago. The exchange notes that such cases are seen in clinical practice.
How many other children out there? And adults. I mean, you hear about this with adults with sleep apnea, but a child with obstructive sleep apnea at three, like, no one. People are like, that doesn't happen. Oh, yes, unfortunately.
Yeah.
You see a lot of it in your practice with osi.
Yeah, for sure. My son is actually. He was my first case. He's been my best learning case. But he. That was him. I mean, he was. He snored like crazy. He was a thumb sucker. He had huge tonsils, huge adenoids. I mean, just like every symptom under the sun. And I didn't. Like I said, he was my learning case. He's now 10. And I learned about this eight years ago.
Right.
So we've had a lot of time.
The same journey, the same said. I was like, we're usually on these parallels. 10 year olds got in around 20. They were 24 months or so. Yep.
That's funny. Yeah. We ended up having to have his tonsils and adenoids removed. And he was a whole different kid. And what I didn't expect effect, which I still think is super interesting, is that I think he could hear me better. I mean, I know he could probably hear me better. Those at his adenoids were so big. So not only were they blocking his airway, but they're blocking the. The auditory signaling. Right. The. The resonance coming from people's voices and things like that that he just didn't have access to. His speech was clearer. Didn't sound like he was underwater anymore. I always told him I was like, it sounds like you have peanut butter in your throat. But that was just all that tissue that was back there. But. But yeah, I mean, so I never love to jump to surgery, but absolutely. Sometimes that's what we need.
