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What Causes Headache And Tiredness?
My 6 year old son has high cholesterol and is lacking iron. He is overweight for his age however very active, tonight he complained that he was very tired but could not fall asleep. Also has headache that he explains as a brain freeze. Feeling cold. And his feeling tired. I m concerned due to his current health issues. What can be the cause of this
Fri, 12 Sep 2014
Overweight babies often suffers from Sleep Apnea syndrome which cause disturbed sleep at night causing tiredness, sleepy feeling, and headache all day long. If cough and cold superimposes on this, it could cause more problems in breathing at night aggravating all the symptoms.Give him syr Cetzine before bed which will help him. But you must must must look to reduce the weight of the child or this condition will gradually with age.
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