The Telegraph – Staff Writer
” A sleep expert has claimed that teenage insomnia may be partly down to the smelliness of a teenager’s bedroom. Colin Espie, professor of sleep medicine at Oxford University, said teenagers are to be given advice on “bedroom hygiene” as part of a nationwide study amid concerns that lack of sleep is affecteing exam grades. He told the Sunday Times: “Young people never open their windows, their rooms are never ventilated. “The smelly teenager’s bedroom is a byproduct of the fact that the room is full of rebreathed air, which is low in oxygen and high in nitrogen. If you keep on rebreathing the same air in a small bedroom that is hot and not ventilated you will wake up with a headache after a poor night’s sleep.” The Teen Sleep study will track almost 32,000 GCSE pupils in up to 100 schools for a year to assess whether a later start time and sleep education lessons lead to improved academic performance.”(more)