For sure a lot of us have the habit of sleeping with our blankets or anything on our bed covering our head. But now it may be wise to try and avoid this habit, that is if you want to avoid diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. A study can attest to that.
The study found that sleeping with the head partially or fully covered by bedding would result in a 92.8% chance of suffering from either an early stage, middle stage, or late stage of dementia, by the age of 70.
The study considered that
A new kind of facial skin that can help rejuvenate the skin is now being sold across the UK. This is the same cream reportedly being used by celebrities such as Kylie Minogue and Jennifer Lopez. StriVectin Overnight Resurfacing Serum, made from prickly pears and pink seaweed, is dubbed “sleep in a bottle” by beauticians due to its ability to revive skin while people sleep.
The cream is designed to moisturize the skin every night and is suitable for all skin types. People aged over 30
After a partnership with Milton Hospital, Sleep Health Centers have now been opened to help develop and manage the sleep medicine program. Starting this month, the new Sleep Health Centers will be performing diagnostic sleep studies at Milton Hospital with plans to open a clinic offering CPAP therapy in the future.
In addition to conducting sleep studies, Sleep HealthCenters provides physician consults, patient monitoring, patient education, and follow-up care for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) pat
The best way to hone up sleep education is to perhaps insert them into the daily programs in school. Special sleep sessions covering sleep issues like avoiding late night TV, keeping a bedtime routine and sleeping for at least nine hours are only some of the valuable topics kids should be taught.
This can dramatically improve the sleep problems some kids and teens have to deal with, most of whom have been sleep deprived due to bedtime after midnight. With this new sleep sessions, kids and teens m
Two former day care workers from Ohio have been charged with three counts of child endangering and three counts each of misrepresentation by childcare provider for slipping an OTC supplement into candies to make kids sleep during nap time.
Parents complained that their kids looked groggy after being picked up from the day care and were notified of the malpractice when a co-worker notified police in December that Hartley and Scott gave the children melatonin in candy. Melatonin
Have you experienced some teeth-grinding episodes when you are asleep? Well if you are and are wondering why this is happening, you may be working too hard or are stressed out. Also known as Sleep Bruxism, this has found to be common and yet unresolved. However new studies may yet link it and provide us with a better understanding of why this occurs.
“Its causes are still relatively unknown, but stress has been implicated. We aimed to investigate whether different stress-
It seems that sleepless nights may be tied up with how much you weigh and eat and this issue will be tackled at this year’s National Sleep Awareness Week to be held from March 7 to 13. Health benefits will be among the topics which include proper rest and surprisingly, weight control.
There are two appetite-controlling hormones which contribute to the loss of sleep. Not only are you hungry in one sleep study, the participants’ desire for high-calorie,
While sleeping has to be the favorite and simple pastime anyone can think off, it looks like you may also have to watch how long and how much you sleep. While sleeping is healthy, oversleeping can become a health hazard, putting you closer to that dreaded diabetes illness everyone is trying to avoid.
A study was conducted on 20,000 Chinese adults where napped for at least 4 to 6 days of a week had a higher prevalence of diabetes type 2. However, the researchers stress that the
The Federal Aviation Administration is cracking down on pilots who are skipping sleep the night before a flight after a plane crash near Buffalo, New York pointed to fatigue problems. U.S. airline regulators will be asked to seek data on how many pilots are indeed skipping sleep to ensure maximum safety for the passengers who embark on various flights.
The data may aid a push by advocates such as the National Transportation Safety Board for more federal action to combat fatigue. The Fe
We are all aware of the story of Sleeping Beauty but who would have thought that it would soon be a sickness in our modern age? Well apparently it is around and a 15 year old from Britain is inflicted with it. Louisa Ball got the “disease” when she was 13 after a bout with the flu. Louisa needs to be woken up forcefully or else she would end up sleeping for days or even up to a month!
When she does get up, these are only for brief spells. In the end, she was diagnosed with Kleine-Levin Synd
