Treatment Could Lower Crash Risk For Truckers With Sleep Apnea.
HEALTH NEWS | Wed Sep 28, 2016 | 3:16pm EDT By Carolyn Crist (Reuters Health) – Commercial truck drivers who get treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for two years may reduce their crash risk to the level of drivers without apnea, a study from Italy suggests. For professional drivers, the screening, treatment and management of sleep disorders should be mandatory to reduce accident risk and improve road safety, the study authors write in the journal Sleep Medicine. “Screening for OSA in heavy vehicle drivers should be a major public safety priority,” senior author Luigi Ferini-Strambi, director of the Sleep …
When Chronic Pain Is The Enemy Of Sleep.
Sep 21, 2016 | Tamara Kaye Sellman, RPSGT, CCSH | sleep, pain According to statistics from the 2015 Sleep in America™ Poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation: Nearly a quarter of those who suffer with chronic pain report higher stress levels Nearly half of those who suffer with chronic pain experience problems at work due to pain-related sleep loss People who suffer with chronic pain lose 42 minutes a night of sleep because of it. That translates into nearly 5 hours weekly, and over 10 days annually. Sleep debt like this can be extremely difficult to overcome A …
What To Do If You’re Struggling To Sleep
September 26, 2016 Many people have trouble sleeping, at least sometimes. Symptoms of insomnia are the most common sleep disorder and affect about one third of Americans at some point in their lives. Many people have trouble sleeping, at least sometimes. Symptoms of insomnia are the most common sleep disorder and affect about one third of Americans at some point in their lives. But chronic insomnia — when trouble sleeping persists for more than a month, and alters how you feel and perform during the day — is different, and affects about 8 to 10 percent of …
Sleep Apnea The Health Issue Right Under Our Noses.
By Nancy Markley Sleep apnea becoming disturbingly common in children and adolescents CALGARY, Alta. Oct. 14, 2016 / Troy Media / – Sleep Apnea, sleep-disordered breathing, and snoring: these are not just things you have to be aware of for you and your partner. These health issues are becoming disturbingly common in children and adolescents. Sleep-disordered breathing, which includes sleep apnea and snoring, affects 12 percent of children in the United States. This breaks down to approximately nine million children with sleep-disordered breathing, and perhaps as many as four million children with obstructive sleep apnea. To put his in context, …
How Smoking Kills Your Sleep.
By: Praveen Kumar Published: Tuesday, October 4, 2016, 6:15 Smoking kills in many ways. It is linked to several types of cancers, anxiety, depression, infections, heart issues and many other health issues. But seldom do smokers realise that their sleep is radically affected just because of the tobacco stick. And when you don’t get enough sleep, other disorders will easily affect you and make you weaker. Yes, nicotine can disrupt sleep cycles. If you don’t believe, then read on to know how the habit of smoking wrecks your natural sleep cycle. Fact #1 Smoking can directly affect your body’s natural …
Traffic pollution and noise may cause daytime sleepiness, nighttime snoring: study.
October 13, 2016 Sheffield, England – Do you sometimes feel like falling asleep at work? Traffic pollution and nighttime traffic noise may be to blame. Researchers from National University Hospital of Iceland and the University of Bergen analyzed data of more than 12,000 adults from the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe (RHINE) study. About 1 out of 5 adult participants complained of daytime sleepiness, and 1 out of 4 reported that they were habitual snorers. The researchers found that people who are exposed to increased levels of pollution have a 65 percent greater chance of suffering from daytime sleepiness. They …
Sleep injustice: When your income, job and where you live make sleep hard to get.
ABC Health & Wellbeing By Lisa Cox Posted 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm Updated 5 October 2016 at 10:01 pm It’s not hard to imagine how noise, the weather, an unsettled child or a bad day at work could influence how you sleep. But what about where you live, your ethnicity, your education, or your income? Would a factory shift worker from a non-English speaking background who lives in a rough part of town be more likely to have poor sleep than a professional from a well-to-do suburb earning a stable income? Not withstanding the sleep-disrupting pressures …
When worries stop sleep and then you worry about not sleeping.
By Cathy Johnson Posted yesterday at 21:07 Updated yesterday at 21:42 Being awake at an ungodly hour, your mind a tangle of anxious thoughts, is a wretched experience. Whether you’re thinking about work or family worries, the events of the day, or tasks you face tomorrow, it tends to kill off the chance of sleep. It’s a common problem, with “thoughts” second only to “needing to go to the toilet” in the list of sleep disrupters identified by the 20,018 people who completed the ABC’s Sleep Snapshot survey a few weeks ago. And when asked to describe in their …
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