Excessive daytime sleepiness in childhood and adolescence
Disorders leading to daytime sleepiness in childhood and adolescence
- if a child/adolescent has insufficient night sleep and enhanced night-time arousal
- secondary to inadequate sleep hygiene:
- physical exercise late at night
- caffeine misuse
- misuse of alcohol, cigarettes, and illicit substances
- secondary to inadequate sleep hygiene:
- if a child/adolescent has a primary central nervous system disorder
- delayed sleep phase syndrome
- idiopathic hypersomnia
- periodic hypersomnia
- narcolepsy—cataplexy, idiopathic
- narcolepsy secondary to neoplasms, trauma, inflammatory processes involving the dorsolateral hypothalamus
- Restless legs syndrome
- if a child/adolescent has sleep related breathing disturbance
- obstructive hypoventilation, primary or secondary to Down's syndrome, obesity, hypothyroidism, or myopathies like myotonic dystrophy
- secondary to drugs
- prescription: benzodiazepines, barbiturates, antiepileptic drugs
- non-prescription: diphenhydramine, chlorpheneramine, illicit substances
- secondary to a psychiatric disorder
- depression
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