What is the most common reason for a child to attend a sleep lab?

What is the most common reason for a child to attend a sleep lab?

Gary Feldman (Medical Director, Stramski Disorders Center, Miller Children's Hospital ) gives expert video advice on: What is the most common reason for a child to attend a sleep lab? and more...

A child may need to attend a sleep lab to carry out sleep studies, most of which regarding children are because of difficulties with breathing. They either present with snoring at night or the parents observe that they actually stop breathing. So, breathing-related problems in sleep are the most common reason why kids have sleep studies. The numbers of kids who have breathing problems when they sleep vary. It's probably between three and five percent of the child population. It can occur at different ages; from very young ages, from six months, right up into adulthood. There are a variety of reasons for them to have those problems; the most common in children is usually enlarged tonsils and adenoids.