this is vital for their proper growth and development. The best point made in the article was when 22 patients with diagnosed ADHD with tonsils breathing problems causing sleep deprivation had surgery and had them removed and a full half of the original A.D.H.D. group who removed their tonsils  11 of 22 children  no longer met the criteria for the condition. There was another point mentioning a study that found that children who suffered from sleep-disordered breathing in infancy were more likely to have behavioral difficulties later in life and were 20 to 60 percent more likely to have behavioral problems at age 4