Archive for October, 2007
Naps Ease High Blood Pressured People
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung October 16th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders.
Now it all makes sense. During my time working in a company, I could never understand why some people would feel sleepy in the office, normally using the lunchtime break to take short naps. Most of them usually sleep 6 to 8 hours but still, the lack for sleep seemed to be evident.
Apparently, it is not all due to boredom. Some of these people have health issues and one most common was that of blood pressure levels rising at some proportionate levels. Snoozing for a short period can help support the cardio-vascular issues that these people may or may not be aware of.
Apparently, it is not really all about sleeping properly but the overall health as well.
Read more: Expecting An Afternoon Nap Can Reduce Blood Pressure
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Uneasy Sleeping When Your Partner is Away
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung October 15th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Issues, Sleep Myths.
For couples, it is only normal to be used to having someone being there by your bedside all the time when sleeping time comes. It has become automatic for most people to have lesser worries as far as security for one, knowing that their special and trusted loved one is by their side, sleeping or at least within sight.
Most critics may call it a mental or psychological factor. However, it is only customary for people to fit in comfortably into wherever they are placed. Beds for one are not immediately deemed the best fit to lie on until the person has fully adjusted towards it. The same goes to sleeping with someone by your side.
Some people just find it entirely empty to see a bare bed space in their room. They just don’t feel comfortable with the idea that the usual person at their side is nowhere in sight.
Read more: Trouble Sleeping Alone
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Nothing Cute about A Baby’s Snore
1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung October 14th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Issues, Snoring.
We often look at how our kids sleep when they are first born. We see them yawning, tossing and turning, or maybe even letting out a quiet murmuring sound which is eventually a snore. We will find it cute and amazing. But realistically, it is not really something we should adore or be proud of.
For all we know, these sounds are indications of something internally wrong with the child. Lapses in breathing or difficulty in the air passage is highly critical in children. It is best to mention this to their pediatrician beforehand just to be safe. Not a cause for alarm but if it recurs, then you may just have something to worry about.
Read more: Health — That cute little snore your child has could be sleep apnea
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Proper Diagnosis Requires Proper Complaints
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung October 13th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
Doctors and physicians are always there to help in diagnosing any health issue that may be troubling most people and this includes areas of sleep disorders. However, unless a patient wholly reveals and narrates the entire problem, a doctor cannot fully diagnose nor guess if the patient does indeed have a sleeping problem.
There are communication gaps every time a patient sees his physician. It all lies in the area that people sometimes take for granted the importance of being detailed with every illness or happening that comes their way. This in turn moves towards an incomplete scenario to which proper diagnosis of the whole problem may come up short. Hence it is best to tell everything rather than leave out the supposedly unimportant things which may eventually be the critical causes of the issue at hand.
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Warm Milk Does Not Make People Sleep Better
1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung October 12th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Issues, Sleep Myths.
Prior to what we have all been oriented ever since, warm milk which was believed to be a good resort for people having a hard time to sleep is not an answer to all the worries of most people. It is more of a psychological factor that has been passed on that has been making most of us believe that it is a good solution to sleep deprived people.
Few foods have a reputation for curing insomnia quite like warm milk.
According to age-old wisdom, milk is chock full of tryptophan, the sleep-inducing amino acid that is also well-known for its presence in another food thought to have sedative effects: turkey.
But whether milk can induce sleep is debatable, and studies suggest that if it does, the effect has little to do with tryptophan. To have any soporific effect, tryptophan has to cross the blood-brain barrier. And in the presence of other amino acids, that is difficult for it to do.
Source: STUDIES: Milk at bedtime may be soothing, probably not sleep-inducing
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