Shedding light on children’s sleeping problems | Letters

A network of NHS sleep clinics would help, says Dr Leslie Bartlet, while Dr John Lincoln and Eleanor Levin worry about the increasing use of melatonin-suppressing blue light

The current concern about children’s sleep disorders has certainly worsened, but is not new (Health alert over rise in child sleep disorders, 1 October). There has been an NHS children’s sleep clinic in Southampton for more than 20 years.

Current discussions have largely ignored the horrendous stresses facing thousands of families with disabled children. Conditions such as autism, epilepsy, eczema, asthma and cerebral palsy are frequently associated with sleep problems. So families already burdened by daytime demands can lose out at night as well.

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