Re: Needing 13 hours of sleep

[Guest guest]

My daughter and I both tend to need 10 hours of sleep or else we're zombies. I

have no idea why that is. My son requires a certain of sleep due to sleep meds.

So I'm not sure what it could be with your child. IT could be medicine related,

diet related, or he might just need that much sleep. Sorry I'm not much help. I

just wanted to offer some options. Has he always needed that much sleep? Could

it be yeast? I know yeast in the brain causes foggyness and sluggishness.

[Guest guest]

How old is he? I had two of my four need 13 hours a night as they moved into

their teen years. I would have loved if they had slept as infants, but

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From: debgonzalez@...

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:27:32 +0000

Subject: Needing 13 hours of sleep

Has anyone had an experience with a child that needs lots of sleep? I am

talking 13 hours a night? I know most of our kids have sleep issues that include

not being able to sleep and think they would like too much, but boy is it

getting tough with school and trying to get some quality time with him. I have

tried melatonin (thinking it had something to do with quality of sleep) and he

couldn't sleep through the night on it.

What's up?

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[Guest guest]

He is 6. He actually didn't regress until he was 3 and that is when

this sleep pattern started.

I know what you mean. My oldest kids went through that adolescent

sleep thing. ;0)

deb

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[Guest guest]

Thank you for responding. I have been at such a loss and it seems this is a

little uncommon in our community. The truth is he never had this issue until he

regressed at age 3. Then it (and everything else) immediately began. We have

seen so much progress (One therapist is even asking for him to be re-evaluated

to see if he should be moved into PDD diagnosis) but this issue remains

unchanged.

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have no idea why that is. My son requires a certain of sleep due to sleep meds.

So I'm not sure what it could be with your child. IT could be medicine related,

diet related, or he might just need that much sleep. Sorry I'm not much help. I

just wanted to offer some options. Has he always needed that much sleep? Could

it be yeast? I know yeast in the brain causes foggyness and sluggishness.

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I too have a son, age 4 now, that needs at least 12 hours sleep a night. It is

almost like clockwork - whatever time we put him to beds at night, he wakes at

the same time in the morning. When he was an infant and toddler, he used to take

super long naps AND still sleep 12 hours or so at night. I want to say that him

moving around all day long makes him need the sleep, but when he is sick and

still all day, he sleeps even more.

I am at a loss as well, but have enjoyed it for the moment as I have 3 other

kids now. I already know it wil be an issue in the fall when he starts all day

pre-school and leaves in the a.m. instead of afternoon. Yikes!

I too would like to know what causes it, since my the others I know have

opposite problems with their kids with autism.

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From: gonza_mom <debgonzalez@...>

Subject: Needing 13 hours of sleep

Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:27 PM

Has anyone had an experience with a child that needs lots of sleep? I am talking

13 hours a night? I know most of our kids have sleep issues that include not

being able to sleep and think they would like too much, but boy is it getting

tough with school and trying to get some quality time with him. I have tried

melatonin (thinking it had something to do with quality of sleep) and he

couldn't sleep through the night on it.

What's up?

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[Guest guest]

Really, there are a lot of possibilities for this. Just wanted to let you know

that my son slept a lot, too, and it was to the minute, total clockwork. I don't

recall if it " got worse " at some point. But, by age 3, I noticed that he needed

more than other kids. Mine is ASD spectrum, Aspie-ish, not outright autism.

Mine also went into a 6-week sleep funk at age 4 (like mono, but wasn't mono),

and then it happened again twice this past year (age 11) for a week at a time.

On the first occurence, the weekly blood work said only that it was a standard

virus and that he should have been able to fight it. After six weeks of 18

hours/day of sleep, I took matters into my own hands and went holistic. I gave

him Essiac tea (Flor*Essence) and he came out of it with a nice fever and nearly

normal sleep (for him) over a 2 day period. I kept with the tea for another 2

weeks, went to see a holistic MD 2 weeks later, and he gave him more herbals,

said to take him OFF all dairy, buy a juicer and get more enzymes into him, eat

more raw foods (raw carrots) etc. His sleep got better than normal (only about a

half hour less than normal) ... so at age 5 he slept 11.5 hours instead of the

normal 12.

Last year, at age 11, he was sleeping 10 hours/night when well. But, after a

week of another sleep funk he ended up getting an x-ray of his gut after his 3rd

sleep funk and found he was completely backed up all the way with crapola. Doc

said it was the worst case he'd ever seen. He said use Miralax (regular

pediatrician).

Now, he's off of Miralax and I've got him on lots of supplements. He's able to

sleep less, has more energy. Could be because he's been de-toxed. Could be

because of the 5K iu's of Vit D3 per day (makes ya peppy). Or, could be the

Coromega or yeast coming down. Adrenals better? Beats me.

Keep at it. If your gut intuition says you have a problem, then follow it.

For what it's worth, my son's first pediatrician (as a baby/toddler/preschooler,

before we moved) said that his " sensory " kids tended to sleep more. Like they

are overstimulated? Dunno. My son definitely had major sensory stuff when he was

smaller, but I didn't see the occupational therapy change the sleep. It did

change his small motor skills and socialization and some large motor, but not

the sleep.