Stating that sleep disorders can occur at a young age and the biggest factor of this is the use of electronic devices, Eskişehir Şehir Hospital Ear Nose and Throat Department Specialist and Sleep Center Supervisor Prof. Dr. Vural Fidan said, “The more time spent dealing with or dealing with electronic devices, the more children are affected by the processes of falling asleep and maintaining sleep.”
Today, sleep disorders can be seen from childhood and have a significant negative impact on life. The use of electronic devices draws attention as the main cause of sleep disorders that can be observed in almost every age group. Especially from infancy onwards, the use of electronic devices during the day and before sleep significantly reduces sleep quality. Experts warn families to prevent children from getting sleep disorders. Eskişehir City Hospital Ear Nose Throat Department Specialist and Sleep Center Supervisor Prof. Dr. Vural Fidan warned families in his statement on the subject, “We want families to limit the time, especially during this summer period and when schools are open. Children's use of technological devices during the day should be completed within a maximum of 1 hour.”
“Technological devices make it difficult for children to fall asleep and stay asleep”
Stating that children's involvement with technological devices from infancy prepares the ground for sleep disorders, Prof. Dr. Vural Fidan said, “Unfortunately, sleep disorders are a situation we see in childhood. Due to the development of technology and easier access to this technology, unfortunately, from infancy, children are much more involved with products such as mobile phones, phones, tablets or computers. But unfortunately, the more time children spend with these devices and the closer they are to the sleep process, the more the stimuli and blue light they are exposed to disrupt their ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. The type of programs that children see or watch in relation to these technological devices also affects them a lot. Especially violent programs or violent games, cartoons can unfortunately affect the subconscious of children on this issue and cause sleep terror in children's sleep or serious waking problems during sleep. Of course, this needs to be under control. Adults have a very serious job to keep it under control.”
“Children should not deal with technological devices before sleep”
Fidan warned families that children should not come into contact with technological devices, especially before going to sleep:
“Children will always prefer the more beautiful and easy fun side. This is something we expect, but we want families to limit this time, especially during this summer period and when schools are open. We definitely want children's use of technological devices during the day to be completed within a maximum of 1 hour. And we want this time not to be close to sleep so that the stimuli, blue light, does not disrupt the child's sleep pattern and level. It should not disrupt the deep sleep process. In this regard, television is also one of the most serious factors. Although there are more stimuli in the digital world, it is still possible for children or adults to be interested in television outside of technological tools. These technological tools should definitely not be where we sleep. We want the television not to be where we sleep. Because this stimulus unfortunately disrupts the process of falling and maintaining sleep in the place where the person sleeps, that is, in the bedroom.”
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