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Beauty and Health from Quality Sleep Habits
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 21st, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Issues.
When you talk about staying fresh and maintaining beauty, women will be the first to step up and claim that sleep will be one of the essential things needed to make it all happen. Nothing beats the gift of a good sleep to make sure that their complexion will retain its usual rich self. Remember that each battered body due to lack of sleep will always claim drastic results in the end.
You can just look at the people who suffer from insomnia and other related sleep disorders we hear of today. Most of them always look haggard and are prone to various illnesses as well. If women had their way, they would want to get valued sleep at the best times advisable so that they in turn can avoid physical and internal problems that come along with lacking the proper fruits of restful slumber.
Most Women know that nothing kills a good complexion like a bad night’s slumber; there’s a reason, after all, that it’s called beauty sleep. If that’s not motivation enough to keep up with your nightly shut-eye, here’s another: doctors are learning that poor sleep habits may make women more vulnerable than men to heart disease and diabetes.
(Source) Time
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Surgery Solutions for Sleep Apnea
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 15th, 2008 in SLEEP News, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
Turning to surgery when it comes to sleep apnea solutions may be the last thing on people’s minds. But in reality, surgery for people who have a serious problem with it is entirely necessary especially if everything like constant consultations and therapies to remedy it fails.
Kids rarely need surgery and once they do, the immediate understanding is that they can be cured immediately. Apparently this does not hold true at times and while it is the last recourse for curing sleep disorders, it may not always be the last and reliable solution.
Surgery may provide only short-term relief for some children with sleep-disordered breathing, say researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Adenotonsillectomy surgery is the first line of treatment for sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in children. It is the most common surgery performed upon children, the researchers noted.
(Source) Washington Post
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US Government Extends Subsidies for Sleep Devices
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 13th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, Sleep Apnea, Sleep Disorders.
The problem of sleep apnea is continuously growing and to try and help satisfy this problem, the US government has recently passed a bill to extend subsidies for additional sleep breathing devices and aid people suffering from the dreaded sleep problem.
Among the benefiting companies will be ResMed, a respiratory equipment maker that specializes in breathing devices and notably, sleep disorders such as sleep apnea. While its rival, Respironics is also specializing in this field, the passed subsidy is something that will need more than one specialized respiratory device company. With that said, ResMed can look to better sales in providing sleep solutions to its customers soon.
Read more here.
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Women Suffer More from Sleep Disorders
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 12th, 2008 in How to sleep better, SLEEP News, SLEEP Psychology, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
Ordinarily, you would think that men would have sleep disorders due to work and some social issues that keep them awake at night. But apparently, based on this finding, it seems that women are getting the rawer end of the deal.
This does not mean of course that women have more shortcomings than men. It is just that they have to deal with mental and psychological anguish more than the male specie. A lot of it has to do with how they handle the mental deficiencies present in their lives today. You may say that its too much for their heart to carry when you talk about emotional stress.
“The study suggests that poor sleep — measured by the total amount of sleep, the degree of awakening during the night, and most importantly, how long it takes to get to sleep — may have more serious health consequences for women than for men,” says Suarez, an associate professor at Duke University’s department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
(Source) WebMD
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Have You Been Sleeping Lately?
0 Comments Published by Brian Yalung March 10th, 2008 in Health Issues, How to sleep better, SLEEP News, Sleep Disorders, Sleep Issues.
Sleep is something that has drawn much attention these days and apparently it is an issue that needs to be addressed. Over a million people suffer from sleep disorders today and while many shrug them off telling themselves that they can get over this dilemma, a lot of them are frequenting physicians and specialists to seek advice on how to battle this sleep deficiency that has grown out of proportion.
There are a lot of factors that have made this sleep problem go out of bounds. A lot of it stems from the fact that people are forced to stay up in extended hours which in turn becomes a habit that suddenly goes out of control. Sad but true, people just don’t realize that sleeping irregularly is already a sign of potential sleep disorders that can go out of hand.
So what can you do to change the tide before the problem becomes so bad you require medical intervention?
Try setting a regular sleep schedule and sticking to it no matter what. Avoid caffeine or other stimulants before bed. Drink a glass of Retalex PM before you want to go to sleep. Unlike most common sleep aids — pills that leave you tired and groggy the next morning and supplements that can be hard to swallow and even more difficult to fully digest — Restalex-PM is an all-natural drink solution that will be absorbed by the body quickly.
(Source) Dentalplans.com
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