Archive for the 'Sleep Cures' Category
A Drug to Solve Sleepiness
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung December 28th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Cures, Sleep Disorders.
The search for sleep remedies continues to this day and while we all know that people need to sleep, there are drugs that are still continuously trying to find sleep alternatives to back off people from coffee to make sure they retain their sanity and strength.
However, Darpa scientists are claiming that they have found a drug to eliminate sleepiness:
A nasal spray containing a naturally occurring brain hormone called orexin A reversed the effects of sleep deprivation in monkeys, allowing them to perform like well-rested monkeys on cognitive tests. The discovery’s first application will probably be in treatment of the severe sleep disorder narcolepsy.
The treatment is “a totally new route for increasing arousal, and the new study shows it to be relatively benign,” said Jerome Siegel, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA and a co-author of the paper. “It reduces sleepiness without causing edginess.”
Source: Wired
So much for solving sleep deprivation but it is hard to imagine a person without an ounce of sleep. Drugs are know to help, but this discovery seems to need more support and tests for it to be a good discovery for sleep deprivation.
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Take Walnuts to Sleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 17th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Cures.
This is something interesting for all sleep deprived patients out there. Walnuts have been found to help you sleep better. And by all means, it does seem to be effective.
We all know that taking in various food intakes may eventually contribute towards our hard times of being able to sleep and based on a study on walnuts, its monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats have been found to be the healthful properties contributing to allow people to sleep safer.
Walnuts have a number of healthful properties. They contain monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats to help your cholesterol levels. There also seems to be an element of truth to the idea that walnuts can help you go to sleep. Walnuts have a substance similar to the body’s melatonin, which is a hormone involved in inducing and regulating sleep. A “dose” of walnuts could be 4 to 5 halves, equal to about 100 calories. It might be worth 100 calories if it helps you sleep, and it certainly would be a more healthful snack choice than chips, cheese puffs or candy.
Source: Walnuts can help you sleep
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Helping Moms to Put Babies To Sleep The Right Way
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung November 14th, 2007 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Cures, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education.
Not all moms are taught on how to be able to handle new babies, especially the first timers. One of the main problems is caring for their child and the proper way to lull them to sleep. While such is a responsibility tasked for budding parents of today, it remains that teaching them about this fact and reality of life is something that they can very well learn from in both ways.
There is no such way of putting babies to sleep professionally. It depends as well on how an infant react and responds to the attention being given to them. While most people are worried of doing the wrong thing, parents should at least observe and determine ways on how to care for their child better. They just have to start somewhere, sometime.
Teaching new mothers strategies to help their babies overcome sleep problems yields significant benefits for both of them, according to a study conducted in Australia.
Among 328 moms who reported that their 7-month-old was having sleep problems, those who were randomly assigned to participate in a brief behavioral intervention noticed an improvement in their child’s sleep problem, and in their own sleep, and felt less depressed compared with those randomly assigned not to participate in the program.
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Using Infrared to Diagnose Sleep Apnea
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung October 19th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Cures.
Sleep apnea, something that has been a bane for most people can only be fully studied and diagnosed using the standard procedure of measuring nasal pressure through sensors placed in the nose. This is entirely uncomfortable and people just have to bear with it to gain the necessary treatment of the said sleep problem.
Today, the use of remote-controlled infrared diagnostic tests provides an alternative and convenient way of diagnosing sleep apnea among sleep deprived patients.
“Polysomnography is a diagnostic test, which establishes the presence or absence of sleep disorders. But standard methods have the potential to significantly disturb a patient’s sleep pattern, so what we see in the lab may not be a true representation of the patient’s sleep habits,” said lead study author Jayasimha Murthy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, TX. “However, remote infrared imaging is a noncontact method, so there is minimal interference with the patient. In fact, this system can be designed to where the patient isn’t even aware that monitoring is taking place.”
Read more: Infrared imaging for sleep apnea diagnosis shows promise
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The Anatomic Snoring Pillow
1 Comment Published by Brian Yalung September 15th, 2007 in How to sleep better, SLEEP Gadgets, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Cures, Sleep Therapy.The manner to which people lay down on their beds may be the answer to loud snorers we know today. There is a new alternative from Fitini.com, an Anatomic Snoring Pillow that can be more or less the answer to most snoring people’s woes today. Who knows, it may be the solution fit for that loud snoring people encounter today?
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