Sleep apnea in children today is becoming more prevalent and so more research is taking place to try and determine ways to prevent, alleviate or cure it.
One of the latest discoveries is that children with obstructive sleep apnea have elevated levels of c-reactive protein which is a measurement of chronic inflammation in the blood veins [...]
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, you get blown away by some new thing that’ so preposterous you can’t imagine how someone thought to try it in the first place.
Take for instance the didgeridoo, a wind instrument that you’ve undoubtedly heard while watching a Crocodile Dundee or Quigley Down Under movie.
Besides being the [...]
I’ve always thought of sleep as a time of complete inactivity.
When you go to sleep, you seem to have no recollection of what goes on during until you wake up and “resume” life.
Did you know that your brain is very active while you’re asleep?
There are five cycles of sleep that you go through, if you’re [...]
About 70 million americans suffer from at least one of the 84 known sleep disorders and insomnia is the most common of all.
In 2005, the National Sleep Foundation polled Americans and found that a whopping 54% of the respondents had experienced insomnia a few nights per week in the previous year.
Most of the people who [...]
Sudden infant death syndrome is a very emotional name for an unthinkable event, the death of your young child.
When SIDS was first studied, it was done in a fashion that produced false evidence that sleeping with your child or infant would vastly increase the chances of SIDS and so you were warned that it was [...]
A nasal cannula that delivers warm, humidified air in high volume, may be a new and effective method of treating sleep apnea and sleep hypopnea, a milder form of sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea, for this test was difined as a complete cessation of airflow for at least 10 seconds, while hypopnea was difined as a 30% [...]
If you’re wondering how age might effect your sleep, read on.
Most people over 65 report that they need less sleep than they did at younger ages in their lives.
This could be because they’re not as active and so don’t require as much sleep for restoration of their bodies. It’s not really known why older people [...]
Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation are making the news these days as more and more different types of accidents are attributed to human error brought on by sleep deprivation or some other disorder.
Only in the past 50 years of all human history has sleep been considered a thing to be studied. Prior to that sleep [...]
Restless leg syndrome is a lesser known disorder than sleep apnea, sleep walking or insomnia, yet to those who have the disorder, it is just as important to get treatment.
Even thought restless leg syndrome is usually thought of as a sleep disorder, those suffering from it can have an attack in the daytime when they’re [...]
As I said before, my sleep walking episodes began at about age 16 and continued through about age 24.
My wife has dozens of stories that are sure to “bring down the house” with laughter whenever she embarks on them at a party or gathering of friends and neighbors.
Yes, they are funny, but when you are [...]
