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Sleep Apnea Diagnosis and Treatment For Homes Possible

Brian Yalung — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:36:20 +0000

Rather than leave the walls of your home, it seems that there is little difference for people who want to diagnose and treat sleep apnea. This was the conclusion arrived at by researchers from the University of Saksatchewan, SK and Canada for OSA treatments on patients performed at home and sleep labs.

The comparison variables included sleepiness, sleep quality, quality of life, blood pressure, and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) adherence on more than 100 patients. After four weeks of study, there were no significant differences between variables at home and at the sleep laboratory.

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SleepWeaver CPAP Masks Receive ISO 13485 Certification

Brian Yalung — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:59:21 +0000

Circadiance has secured the rights to apply the CE mark for its SleepWeaver soft cloth nasal CPAP masks after securing ISO 13485 certification. With this certification, the said CPAP masks can now be sold in Europe and Canada. The SleepWeaver will likewise launch in Canada soon, offering another alternative product to address sleep apnea problems plaguing consumers.

The soft cloth masks better conform to a patient’s face, creating a better fitting seal, according to the company. SleepWeaver masks come in a variety of colors.

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Natura Eco-Friendly Pillows Featured on Mattress Giant

Brian Yalung — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 05:59:04 +0000

Canada-based Natura World has joined hands with Mattress Giant to showcase its line of eco-friendly pillows. Nine of Natura’s eco-friendly pillows have been selected, each one incorporating a blend of natural and green materials, with one even made from post-consumer recycled bottles.

For 15 years, Natura World has been providing natural and organic bedding products for the whole family, remaining committed to the environment by incorporating sustainability practices in both its operations and products. In efforts to reduce waste, Natura developed an in-house process to shred latex from latex ends for use in pillow cores, reducing latex clogging up landfills.

Natura is also the only wool mattress/bedding manufacturer in North America to card its own wool (brushing raw fibres to prepare them for textiles), which cuts down on cross-contamination and transportation costs.

“This product is not affiliated with Keetsa or Bedzine and cannot be found in their stores”

(Source) Press

Insomnia Affects Quality Worker Output

Brian Yalung — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:12:24 +0000

It is important to get good sleep for a large chunk of the workers of Canada and apparently one can identify just how much of them are suffering from sleep disorders like insomnia. Work output is gravely affected, costing the Canadian economy millions of dollars from lackadaisical output and it seems that unless such an issue is addressed, these losses will evidently show in the operating performance figures of most businesses situated there today.

Direct costs included $191.2 million for doctors’ visits, $36.6 million for transportation to and from these visits, $16.5 million for prescription drugs, $1.8 million for over-the-counter remedies, and a whopping $339.8 million for alcohol used as a sleep aid.

Eight percent of individuals in the study, average age almost 44 and 60 percent female, reported having used alcohol to fall asleep, including 28 percent of those with insomnia symptoms or syndrome.

(Source) Washington Post

Herbal Sleeping Pills can be Addictive

Brian Yalung — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:29:28 +0000

It is a foregone conclusion that relying heavily on sleeping pills can make a person very much reliant towards them. While some may beg to disagree, hard luck people who have trouble sleeping in Canada have turned to herbal remedies to aid their sleeping disorder with the hope of getting sustainable sleeping periods in the process as well.

Sleepes is one prescribed herbal sleeping pill that has been spread throughout Canada. However, the bad news here is that once people stop taking them, the after-effects start to set in. Insomnia and depression instances start to creep in adding more misery to the already borne sleeping problem people are having to date.

“My insomnia became total for about two weeks, meaning I was lucky if I got an hour or two of sleep a night. Then I had several months of feeling hopeless and not wanting to live,” she says.

The whole article can be read here in full: Herbal Sleeping Pills Contain Prescription Meds