Thankfully, I don’t have sleep apnea myself… but I know several people who are afflicted by this debilitating sleep disorder. Basically, you stop breathing completely during normal sleep and this happens over and over again. You also tend to snore quite loudly. This is actually a quite common condition, affecting millions of people.
Now, according to researchers at the University of Louisville there appears to be some promising results for treating obstructive sleep apnea for kids using a drug called montelukast which is actually used to treat asthma. They found that children who were administered showed improvements in sleep disturbances. The anti-inflammatory drug could become an alternative to the current treatment whereby the children’s tonsils and/or adenoids need to be removed.
Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
