Insomnia in Zhengzhou: What causes sleep disorders in children with cerebral palsy?
What causes sleep disturbance in children with cerebral palsy?
Cerebral palsy in children is a serious disease that has a great impact on the normal life of children and can cause lifelong disabilities. Children with cerebral palsy have a higher incidence of sleep disturbance.
So, what are the causes of sleep disturbance in children with cerebral palsy?
The influence of the disease itself. Children with persistent tonic postural reflexes are easily awakened by external stimuli during sleep. This is because the tonic postural reflex is induced after the child is stimulated, and the reflex causes muscle tension to wake up the child. Therefore, such children should avoid external interference when sleeping, and at the same time inform the parents of the correct sleeping posture.
Family stress factors Cerebral palsy families often affect the original family structure due to their own particularity, and there will be more family problems. Many family members of children with cerebral palsy have obvious mental health problems. Many psychological reactions such as pessimism, contempt, fear, and economic concerns all cause tension in the family, thus indifferent or alienating the emotional communication with the children, and even produce boredom. All of these can cause sleep disorders in children, so reducing family stress is crucial to improving children's sleep.
Parenting methods 30% of children with cerebral palsy need to be comforted before going to bed, and 35% of children with cerebral palsy need to be comforted by their parents when they have sleep disturbance at night. Some parents, out of anxiety and worry about the child's disease, show excessive attention, and immediately respond to the child's movement. When the child's long-term sleep disorder and frequent intervention by the parents make the parents physically and mentally exhausted, which seriously affects their sleep. , it is possible to reprimand, punish or completely ignore the child, which will inevitably aggravate the child's tension and make the child's sleep status worse and worse.
Excessive functional training before going to bed. If the child's spirit is already poor before going to bed, it is not suitable for training. Some parents think that increasing the training of the child at this time will make the child sleep better when tired. Parents have no time to train their children due to busy work during the day, so they can only make up for it at night. Forcing children to train leads to crying, agitation, and nervousness in children, which may cause sleep disturbances such as night terrors and frequent awakenings.
We hope that through our summary, we can help you correctly understand the harm of children with cerebral palsy to children, so the importance of prevention in daily life for parents is reflected, so that children can stay away from the troubles of children with cerebral palsy and live a healthy life.
