The effect of less sleep

The effect of less sleep

Dr. Rini Sekartini sp ak (kids spesialis doctor) state that sleep have an important role in children grow up, because when the children sleep there is some hormonal process. The body product grow up hormon, finally the children who is doesn’t have enough sleep automatically have a abnormal growth as the body become short.

Moreover insomnia influnced the child immune system, hormonal function, metabolism, heart system, blood sirculation, learning proses and remind power. In fact, according to the research for parents in five major city in Indonesia that is Jakarta, bandung, medan, palembang, batam shown that 72.2% parents assume that insomnia in child is not a big problem.

The other result is 44% babies in Indonesia and balita (child under 5 years old) have an distub in sleep like wake up in the madnight and less sleep.

The disturb of sleep also happen in other country as

• Swiss: 20% of the 3 years old child wake up every night
• America:84% child 1-3 years old have an insomnia
• China:23.5% child 2-6 years old have a sleep problem

Doctor rini adds that there are different number of our in sleep according to the age of children

• Baby 0-3 months years old sleep 16-20 ours a day
• Child 3-12 months sleep 14-15 ours a day
• 4 months sleep 13-14 ours a day
• 6 monts sleep 11 ours a a night and 2-3 ours n afternoon
• 1-3 years old sleep 12-14 ours a day

To control the problem we can do some ways one of them do not eat coklat or drink coffe when the children want to bed, rilex, do not feel too tired.

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