Benefits of Treatment for Snoring
From ResMed.com – Original Article on Snoring Everyone in your household benefits when you take measures to stop your snoring, control your obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and reclaim your sleep. Tired of feeling tired? Want your energy back? It all comes down to getting a good night’s sleep – both for you and your partner. There are several studies that point to the negative effects of snoring on partners. Their sleep is disrupted, so they can suffer from all the consequences of poor quality sleep: tiredness, daytime sleepiness, mild depression, and irritability. So if you take measures to stop your …
Treatment Options for Snoring
From ResMed.com – Original Article on Snoring ResMed has solutions for throat snorers who have sleep apnea, as well as for throat snorers who don’t. Discover treatment options for your condition. 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 apnea (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. …
What Causes Snoring?
From ResMed.com – Original Article on Snoring When we sleep, our neck muscles can relax so much our upper airway partially closes. This narrowing of the airway causes a vibration that results in snoring. When we’re asleep, the muscles in our necks relax. Sometimes, they relax so much that the upper airway (the nose and throat) partially closes, narrowing the passageway in which air travels to our lungs. This narrowing of your airway causes a vibration in the throat when you breathe, which causes the sound of snoring. There are many reasons why our neck muscles may relax. Swollen tonsils, …
Key Facts About Snoring
From ResMed.com – Original Article on Snoring Loud snoring disrupts sleep for you and your partner. It’s also a sign you may have obstructive sleep apnea. Get the facts. If you snore – especially if you snore loudly – you know how disruptive it can be. You disturb your neighbours when you fall asleep on airplanes or in theatres. Your bed partner complains they can’t sleep and banishes you to the spare room or the sofa. In fact, 95% of snorers say that their snoring bothers their partner. And it plays havoc with your sleep as well, whether you realize …
What Does a Good Night’s Sleep Look Like?
MARCH 17, 2017 – 5:00 AM | by Lisa Mulcahy| Parade.com Remember the last time you caught some quality z’s? Good sleep helps us stay healthy, but many people struggle to sleep well. Earlier this year, an expert panel reported some features of quality sleep in the journal Sleep Health: Falling asleep in 30 minutes or less Being awake for 20 minutes or less after initially falling asleep (In other words, a short jaunt to the bathroom won’t disrupt your sleep unless you can’t get back to sleep afterward.) Sleeping at least 85 percent of the total time you’re in …
Snored to death: The symptoms and dangers of untreated sleep apnea
POSTED FEBRUARY 13, 2017, 9:30 AM , UPDATED FEBRUARY 28, 2017, 10:00 AM | Paul G. Mathew, MD, FAAN, FAHS, Contributor | Health.Harvard.edu Sleep is a critically important component of human existence. On average, humans spend about 25%-35% of their lives sleeping. Sleep allows both the body and brain to rest and recover from the stress of daily life. As such, trouble sleeping can cause a range of health problems, and if left untreated dire consequences. Longing for more sleep There is a common misconception that there is an exact amount of sleep that the body requires. The necessary hours …
Field of dentistry becomes more involved in sleep apnea identification
By Jessica Wendt | POSTED: 02/09/17, 9:42 AM EST | DailyTribune.com Even though a dentist cannot diagnose sleep apnea, he or she may note some of the telltale signs and send you in the direction of a sleep medicine specialist. Photo via Metro Creative Connection The story usually goes like this: the husband is making monster noises out of his nose and mouth, the wife hits him multiple times to change positions and then finally the husband ends up on the couch. What is the culprit? Snoring. Twenty-five percent of normal adults snore habitually, and at least 45 percent snore …
11 Scary Things That Can Happen To Your Body If You Get Less Than 6 Hours Of Sleep For A Few Days Straight
By ISADORA BAUM, CHC | Feb 8 | Bustle.com Sleep is so critical for your every day schedule. Not getting enough Zs each night can really catch up to you and interfere with your productivity and mood, and what can happen to your body if you get less than 6 hours of sleep for a few days in a row can be really bad and affect you over time if not addressed. Unless you start making some healthier habits and prioritize getting to bed earlier, it can turn into a larger, more chronic problem. As a certified health coach, I …
Should children get their tonsils taken out?
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | Updated 9:53 AM ET, Tue January 17, 2017 | CNN.com (CNN) If you’re questioning whether tonsillectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the tonsils — can really improve sleep and throat health in children, new research suggests to cut it out. Tonsillectomies help breathing during sleep and might reduce throat infections in the short term, according to two separate papers from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. More research is needed to determine longer-term effects, researchers said. “While these results are not surprising, they offer a more nuanced look at …
Orthotropics & Orthodontics
Published on January 30, 2017 | William M. Hang, DDS, MSD – Practitioner & Lecturer | Linked-In Article Weston Price chronicled physical degeneration and noted dentofacial changes which occurred in children who adopted a Western Diet. The medical and dental communities have never properly explored or appreciated this research and continue to blame “heredity” for long faces and crooked teeth in narrow dental arches. John Mew, an orthodontist from London, has taken Price’s observations about altered craniofacial growth and proposes that these changes occur due to the way children hold their jaw, lips, and tongue at rest. These changes are …
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