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Article: Kids suffer from sleep apnea too
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2007
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MILWAUKEE - Life's hard enough in middle school without having to
worry about snoring in history class. But such was the hardship of
Kinta Cooley.
One minute she'd be awake, but a second later, she'd be slumped
over in her chair, transmitting ZZZ's throughout the classroom -
sending titters around the group of assembled children.
She became an object of derision and pre-teen nastiness at Glen
Hills Middle School in Glendale, Wis.
Kinta, now 13, was suffering from sleep apnea, a disorder widely
recognized in adults, but one that has caught little attention in the
realm of pediatrics.
"It's a basic question doctors should be asking parents and
pediatric patients: How is your child sleeping?" ...