Treatment options for snoring
ResMed.com Treatment options for your snoring depend on a number of factors, but the two key ones are these: Do you snore through your nose or through your throat? Do you snore and have obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)? At ResMed, we have solutions for throat snorers, as well as for throat snorers with sleep apnea. This includes both mild to moderate OSA as well as more severe cases of OSA. Throat snorers who don’t have sleep apnea You fall into this category if you’ve tested for sleep apnea and obtained an apnea-hypopnoea index (AHI) score of less than 5. If you …
How Your Dentist Can Help You Get A Better Sleep
03/17/2017 01:25 pm ET | Updated Mar 17, 2017 | HuffingtonPost.com Are you zoning out at work? Having trouble concentrating? Are you waking up frequently with a pounding headache? Do you often get sleepy – or even fall asleep – when you shouldn’t, like when you’re driving? Tell your dentist! Dentists are concerned with more than just your pearly whites. We’re here to help you with your overall health and well-being too! More and more evidence is coming out to show that sleep deprivation – a condition that can result in all the symptoms listed at the top of this …
Don’t lose sleep over weight gain, it will only add to it
Published: 20:00 March 16, 2017 | Gulf News | Mary Achkhanian, Staff Reporter People who don’t get enough shut-eye have the propensity to gorge on unhealthy foods the next day, study finds Dubai: The next time you find yourself overindulging in food, try to recall how many hours of sleep you had the night before. Whether it’s gadget addiction that’s reducing your sleep quota or a clinical condition like insomnia, sleep deprivation leads to increased consumption of sweet or salty high-fat foods, says a UK study. Led by King’s College London, the study found that sleep-deprived people consumed an average …
Neurologist: Sleep disorders can mean health issues
By Amanda Dyslin Special to The Free Press | Mar 12, 2017 MANKATO — Ideally, people should spend one-third of their lives sleeping, said Dr. Nidal Alkurdy, a Mankato Clinic neurologist and sleep specialist. “Sleep is a very important component in the health of the brain,” Alkurdy said. “You cannot have a healthy brain in a person who is not sleeping healthy.” Major advances in sleep science occurred in the mid-20th century after the discovery of rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep in 1953. But the focus on evaluation and management of sleep disorders have only developed in the past …
People Are Losing Sleep Over Tracking Their Sleep
By Emily Reynolds | March 10, 2017 9:58 am | NYMag.com The quantified-self movement is a multi-multi-billion-dollar industry; in 2015, the market was worth an estimated $123 billion, a figure expected by some analysts to grow to $612 billion by 2024. And yet the idea of keeping careful track of your steps (or your calories, or your carbs, or whatever) has taken some hits in the last year or so. Recent studies have found, for example, that the data some fitness trackers collect may be “highly inaccurate,” and collecting all that data doesn’t seem to help people lose much weight …
Mouth Breathing: Physical, Mental and Emotional Consequences
March 9, 2017 | by P. McKeown; M. Macaluso | OralHealthGroup.com Breathing is one of the most vital functions of the human body. Every breath we take can have a positive or negative impact on our bodies depending on how it is performed; and it has been well established that normal breathing should be achieved through the nose. However, it may be detoured to the oral cavity in the presence of an airway obstruction. 35 During normal breathing, the abdomen gently expands and contracts with each inhalation and exhalation. There is no effort involved, the breath is silent, regular, and …
Activate Night Shift mode on your Mac and spare your eyes
Jovan Washington | Mar 10, 2017 | Flipboard.com If you use your computer before going to bed, you owe it to your eyes to turn on Night Shift on your Mac. The feature, which adjusts the color of your display to the warmer end of the light spectrum after sundown, eases eye strain and can make falling asleep easier. Night Shift dials down the amount of blue light emitted by your display. Studies have shown that exposure to blue light, which makes images look bright and crisp, can have adverse effects during nighttime use of electronics: Getting too much blue …
Snoring may be benign, or it may be a sign of a serious problem
By Consumer Reports | March 6, 2017 | WashingtonPost.com Do you snore, or share a bed with a snorer? About 37 million Americans regularly make grunting, whistling, choking, snorting and/or buzz-saw-like sounds, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Snoring, which occurs when the airway narrows or is partly blocked during sleep — often thanks to nasal congestion, floppy tissue, enlarged tonsils or the effects of alcohol — can be more than “a benign annoyance,” says Charlene Gamaldo, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center in Baltimore. Not only can your snoring ruin your partner’s shut-eye, it is also …
Your Snores Aren’t Just Annoying—Study Says They Could Kill You
BY CLAIRE NOWAK | RD.com If your snoring iscaused by sleep apnea, your health could be in serious trouble. For some people, snoring is just a normal part of life they—and their partners—need to deal with. But left untreated, those harmless (albeit noisy) snores can increase your risk for multiple life-threatening conditions. Snoring can be caused by allergies, obesity, genetics, and even muscle-relaxing medications. But it can also be a symptom of sleep apnea, a condition where people stop breathing for short periods of time while sleeping. As if that isn’t concerning enough, the American Heart Association cautions that sleep …
Sleep deprivation seen as health threat
By ALYSSA HARVEY aharvey@bgdailynews.com | Jan 17, 2017 | BGDailyNews.com When it comes to sleep, many people aren’t getting enough. The American Sleep Association said 37 percent of 20- to 39-year-olds report short sleep duration. Forty percent of 40- to 59-year-olds report short sleep durations. The ASA reported 35.3 percent of adults report less than seven hours of sleep during a typical 24-hour period. The ASA said 100,000 deaths occur each year in U.S. hospitals because of medical errors, and sleep deprivation has been shown to be a significant contributing factor. There are more than 80 sleep disorders that a …
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