Tag Archive for 'sleep-disorders'
Sleep HealthCenters Makes House Calls
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung June 24th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Therapy.
Sleep deprivation has been a growing pain and most people who are aching for alternative remedies and solutions to this growing disorder can heave a big sigh of relief thanks to the Sleep HealthCenters which have opted to take sleep disorder issues to the next level.
Sleep deprivation has been linked to other health issues such as obesity and heart problems and that alone has become a reason to take sleep problems entirely serious. With an elite group of specialists and providing home sleep testing, the sleep deprived can now expect better attention and diagnoses for their lingering obstructive sleeping problems.
Dr. Lawrence J. Epstein, Sleep HealthCenters’ Medical Director, noted, “Home sleep testing is a viable alternative for those patients who have had a comprehensive sleep evaluation and meet certain criteria, including insurance eligibility. Because untreated sleep apnea has been linked to health problems such as obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular disease, it is crucial that as many at-risk patients as possible be tested and treated. At Sleep HealthCenters, we continue to focus on providing expertise in every aspect of care for patients with all sleep disorders, from diagnosis, to treatment, to long-term management.”
(Source) Business Wire
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Who Can Sleep With the Crisis Today?
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 23rd, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Issues.
Read the papers or watch the news, you will see these things as the headlines:
- Recession
- Rising Prices
- War
- Economic Downturn
- Global Warming
Now if you were the naïve person in the world today, you would not care and simply go your way. All you want to do is to really live your life one day at a time and just try and make do with what you can. Apparently, this is no laughing matter. The world is getting a more hectic place to live in and for sure you will lose a lot of sleep over it.
We all know the value of health as well. We need to sleep and get rest to be able to perform all the things necessary for us to survive. But if we slack a bit, we may lose a lot of things on how we can survive these problems in life. In short, while you have to sleep, who can?
Not included in the list of issues we see today is sleep. Sleep apnea, insomnia and sleep disorders are all growing concerns. They may not be eye-popping issues today but one day they will surely will.
The funny thing is that they may come at a time when all these current events come to be resolved. Now you face a new threat that of which may be aimed towards your health.
Sleep deprivation has been linked with heart disease, obesity, chron ic infections, hypertension, depression . . . and death. It is patently not a good idea to work excessive hours with no sleep, but we are constantly told that, to be an effective, successful and notable individual, this is what we must do. All the evidence suggests that we will make less intelligent judgements without sleep - just as we would if we went for an extended period without, say, food or air - but the pressure is on to prove that we can function anyway.
(Source) Newstatesman
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A Sleeping Sickness called African Trypanosomiasis
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 14th, 2008 in SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Education.
We have heard of a lot of sleeping illnesses lingering around the world today and apparently most of them come from varying origins. Sleep disorders and issues are rampant and are continuously causing pains and problems for people. Here is another one of those sleep sickness called the African Trypanosomiasis.
The disease, endemic in southeast Uganda and western Kenya, is caused by parasites and transmitted to humans by tsetse flies. It kills more than 40,000 Africans each year and the animal form of the disease (nagana) kills two million cattle each year.
IT starts with a headache, joint pains and fever. It is the kind you would expect to get over quickly. But after a while, things get worse. You fall asleep most of the time, are confused and get intense pains and convulsions.
If you do not get treatment, your body begins to waste away. Eventually, you slip into coma and die.
So you may say that this disease may eventually be transmitted unseen as the said parasites can easily make their way to your body. So if you think you have the symptoms mentioned above, better have your doctor check you out.
(Source) AllAfrica.com
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Mixing the Right Amount of Sleep for Health Reasons
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 8th, 2008 in Health Issues, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Events, Sleep Issues.
Sleep can affect us in more ways than one and apparently health is the primary standpoint that we have to look after. It is not merely being able to sleep at the right amounts but also making sure we do not oversleep since it has dire consequences affecting our human anatomy.
Such has been proven by the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to which an estimated 50 to 70 billion people suffer from sleep-related problems. Besides having trouble at work, health experts warn that chronic sleep loss is often linked with obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, cardiovascular disease, depression, cigarette smoking, and excessive drinking.
The National Sleep Foundation, a Washington-based organization that studies sleep and sleep disorders, sustains that adults should sleep at least seven hours a night, children ages 5 to 12 should get 9 to 11 hours, while adolescents need 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 hours.
The new study, based on a door-to door survey of 87,000 U.S. adults from 2004 through 2006, revealed that among adults 18 and older who slept 7 to 8 hours a night, only 18 percent were current cigarette smokers, compared to over 30 percent of adults who slept less than six hours a night.
Lack of sleep also resulted in obesity, according to the study, which found that about 33 percent of those who slept less than six hours were obese, as were 26 percent of those who got nine hours or more. Only 22 percent of those sleeping the recommended amount of time were obese.
(Source) eFluxMedia
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Yoga For Better Sleep
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung May 2nd, 2008 in How to sleep better, Insomnia, SLEEP Celebrity, SLEEP News, Sleep Cures, Sleep Disorders.
As far as looking for good remedies towards sleep disorders is concerned, people will get a lot of advice on what to do. Relaxation is one thing that many lack and it is apparent that is an active element in making people go to sleep easier.
Just look at Justin Chambers who from a previous post had a serious sleep disorder. We mentioned relaxation as a good tool and Chambers seems to have found that in yoga.
He tells Usmagazine, “I’m doing really good - I’m actually sleeping. I am really enjoying life
“(Bikram Yoga) is where you sit in a 104-degree room, and you stretch for an hour-and-a-half, I swear by it - it’s incredible.”
(Source) Contactmusic.com
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