{"id":4484,"date":"2013-12-27T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T19:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2015-05-01T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:13:54","slug":"children-suffer-rise-in-sleep-problems-because-of-xbox-consoles-and-apple-iphones-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4484","title":{"rendered":"Children suffer rise in sleep problems because of &#8216;Xbox consoles and Apple iPhones&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>CHILDREN are suffering a rise in sleeping problems caused by playing video games and texting before bedtime, a study has claimed today.<\/h3>\n<div title=\"Dion Dassanayake\">By:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/search\/Dion+Dassanayake?s=Dion+Dassanayake&amp;b=1\">Dion Dassanayake<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Published: Fri, December 27, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Xbox and Playstation consoles along with Apple iPhones have sparked the sharp rise, according to doctors at Alder Hey children&#8217;s hospital in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say traditional remedies like having a bath before bedtime or being read a story in bed can cure the sleeping problems.<\/p>\n<p>But they also said that long working hours among parents mean that often does not happen.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Richard Appleton, consultant paediatric neurologist at the hospital, said: &#8220;There are sleep problems where families put their children to bed at appropriate times but they are playing the Playstation or Xbox and are hyped-up, or they&#8217;ve had a fizzy drink so they are caffeinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the study children were given sleep diaries to look at what habits they got into before bedtime.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/science-technology\/450643\/Children-suffer-rise-in-sleep-problems-because-of-Xbox-consoles-and-Apple-iPhones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHILDREN are suffering a rise in sleeping problems caused by playing video games and texting before bedtime, a study has claimed today. By:\u00a0Dion Dassanayake Published: Fri, December 27, 2013 Xbox and Playstation consoles along with Apple iPhones have sparked the sharp rise, according to doctors at Alder Hey children&#8217;s hospital in Liverpool. Experts say traditional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,184,154,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular","category-ipad","category-laptop","category-wifi","category-wireless_devices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6461,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions\/6461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}