Kids who snore for three months are 60% more likely to get an ADHD diagnosis. ADHD relies on behavior checklists, but sleep problems show up in sleep studies. Some children stop meeting ADHD criteria once their sleep disorder is treated, yet many get stimulants instead.
There are studies that talk about if a child snores for more than 3 months, 60% increase for ADHD. And so here's the thing, how do you diagnose ADHD? It's like a checklist. Like there isn't like a blood test or anything like that. Where sleep disorder breathing, like you have numbers on a sleep study. And so many times these, these kids are just getting these diagnoses and now here's some stimulants to medicate you. When that's not truly where it came from or what they needed. And, you know, I've seen a few times that, you know, we get a patient sleeping better because we're addressing all the things, right? They no longer like meet criteria for ADHD at that point.
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