Understand what might be disrupting your teen's sleep and what you can do to help. By Mayo Clinic Staff. Thank you for Subscribing Our Housecall e-newsletter will keep you up-to-date on the latest health information. Please try again. Something went wrong on our side, please try again. Show references Paruthi S, et al. Recommended amount of sleep for pediatric populations: A consensus statement of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Teen sleep duration health advisory. American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Accessed Sept. Kliegman RM, et al. Sleep medicine. In: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. There's no known cure for chronic fatigue syndrome. But experts say that these lifestyle changes can help:. Meeting regularly with a therapist or counselor can help in CFS treatment.
So can getting involved in a support group for people with CFS. The main goals of therapy are to help people cope with the illness and to change negative or unrealistic thoughts or feelings into positive, realistic ones. Having a positive feeling that you can get better is very helpful.
Therapy and support groups can also help teens with CFS and their parents deal with the academic or social challenges brought on by the illness, such as missed school, falling grades, or withdrawal from friends and social situations. Most important, don't give up. Having chronic fatigue syndrome can be hard. But for most people, the symptoms are most severe in the beginning.
Later, they may come and go. Teens with CFS generally get better faster and recover more completely than adults do. Most teens get partial or full recovery within 5 years after symptoms began. It's important to keep a positive approach to getting well and to not look for the reason why you have CFS.
People who take action and stay positive can have a good outcome. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. Some of the other signs of mono include:. Mono usually is diagnosed by a blood test called the "Mono spot. Most people get better within a month.
If your teen has mono, he should not play any contact sports such as soccer, football, or lacrosse during the month after he gets mono to lessen the chance of a ruptured spleen. Anemia is the state of not having enough red blood cells, and it is a common cause of tiredness in teens, especially girls.
The most common causes are not enough iron in the diet or, for girls, losing iron due to heavy menstrual periods. With anemia, your child may feel weak and more tired than usual and not do as well at school or in sports.
He may also appear pale. Anemia needs to be diagnosed by a complete blood count called a CBC. All the research linking exhaustion with mental health and behavioral issues. Apparently, lack of sleep can cause cognitive defects, angry outbursts, negative mood, decreased attention, mental health issues, learning issues, and a host of other problems. What does not enough sleep actually mean? According to AASM, teenagers should get eight to 10 hours of sleep per night.
However, some wonder which came first: mental health issues or lack of sleep. Is exhaustion leading to mental health issues, or are their mental health issues causing fatigue? Because the research goes the other way around, too. If a teen is struggling with depression , they are likely to be tired a lot. They may display fatigue all throughout the day.
Teens with depression often have negative mood, angry outbursts, and passive affect.
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