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Adenotonsillectomy helps children's sleep disorders

Respiratory Care Weekly, May 24, 2006

Removing a child's tonsils and adenoids might not just relieve the sore throat and misery of tonsillitis, according to research presented earlier this week in Chicago at the 21st annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. It might be a key to solving sleep-disordered breathing in many children, many of whom display symptoms of hyperactivity.

A University of Kansas study examined the cases of 117 children with the sleep disorder who were also scheduled for adenotonsillectomy. Researchers took preoperative and six months postoperative polysomnographic sleep studies. Results showed that after they had their tonsils and adenoids removed, the children not only showed better sleep patterns, but their behavior also improved.

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