Sleeping 6 hours may not necessarily raise some eyebrows but if you consider the fact that they used to sleep 7 hours a day before, then something must be wrong. And that just seems to be the case for British adults these days, sleeping one hour less compared to two years ago.

The reason? Money, work and stress are the culprits yet again. The effects are that people are not being able to sleep better nor perform up to par due to less sleep. This was discovered from a study conducted by Travelodge which showed more than half (54%) of UK adults admitted that they have trouble sleeping.

The research also showed the lengths to which people go to prolong their sleep taking an average of 13 minutes to get out of bed when their alarm clock rings and one in 10 respondents failing to brush their teeth.

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Hilary Duff’s fiancé, Mike Comrie has sleep problems. He apparently grinds his teeth when they are together thus leading to the need for them to sleep apart. The two got engaged last February and Duff is reportedly frustrated over the noises she hears when she and Comrie are together in bed.

Worst, Duff is also losing some sleep in the process as well and the reason for them sleeping apart. Despite stressing about her sleepless nights, Duff is very “relaxed” about her wedding plans and is keeping calm ahead of the big day.

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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-factors, and different coping strategies, were more or less associated with these bruxism symptoms.”

The study was made by Dr Maria Giraki, from Heinrich-Heine-University in Dusseldorf, Germany who studied 69 people, 48 of whom were tagged as “bruxers”.

(Source) Press

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Yesterday, I had posted about the Zeo Sleep Coach as one of the potential gadgets for use. Now we have another sleep gadget in the form of the ZZZ checker which can help analyze your sleep patterns. It uses audio and visual sensors to figure out when you’re tossing and turning, snoring, grinding your teeth, or doing any other sleepytime hijinks that might interfere with your body’s rejuvenation.

During the night, the ZZZ Checker determines if your sleep level qualifies as light, medium or deep, and then shows you how many hours and minutes you’ve spent in each one. You can either read the data off the screen, or transfer it to your PC via USB for detailed day-to-day graphs using its included software.

Price: $248.00

This is not available on Sleepzine.

(Source) DVice

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For the people who are looking for another solution to their snoring problem, look no further. It has been widely known these days that snoring has become an alarming issue for people who lack sleep and if they are not carefully, it may even lead to something serious such as potential blockage of air inflow. Apparently when people doze off, muscles tend to relax and if they find themselves in the wrong alignment a lot of connected parts of responsible for air flow may clog and eventually become worse than irritative snoring.

All the soft tissue of the throat is connected, and it’s all connected to the jaw. As the only major articulated bone in the area, the position of the jaw can have a dramatic impact on the positioning of the soft tissue during sleep. For this reason, snoring and sleep apnea can be caused by an improper position of the jaw and can be corrected with a proper position of the jaw. In oral appliance therapy, a device is worn in the mouth to reposition the jaw, and, in so doing, reposition the soft tissues of the throat, making them less prone to collapse.

Somnomed is the manufacturer of the SomnoDent MAS, an oral appliance, also known as a mandibular advancement splint (MAS) because it pushes out (advances) the jaw (mandible). It is worn over the teeth when a person goes to sleep at night.

(Source) Best Syndication

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Many call it ingenious to help adults and kids avoid the rush when they wake up in the morning to go to work or school. Sleeping in your clothes for the next day may be applicable to kids but surely not for the adults. Unless you are allowed to wear rugged attire when you work, chances are this practice should be left to the kids.

Sleeping is hard and waking up on time is another. Waking up early is attributed to the fact that kids have to take showers, brush their teeth, dress up and eat their breakfast before they can be on their way to school. For kids that take out the dressing part, it would be wise to make sure they don’t smell once they are ready to go to school.

Baths before bed are good but seriously, waking up early is a discipline one can instill if they go to sleep early. Hard as it may, it seems more practical especially when you talk about proper grooming and then getting ready for the school bus to arrive.

(Source) Bradenton Herald

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Here is a good accessory for parents who use pacifiers to calm down their crying babies. The gums of an infant usually become itchy at their age since their teeth are slowly developing. At times, using the standard baby bottles may not always do the trick as their usual step would be to bite off the nipples of their feeding bottle to ooze that itch.

One thing that parents really hate though is having to get up at night to look after their child. Pacifiers are a good recourse but at times, you may find it hard to get up and look for them. The next thing you know, you cannot go back to sleep.

The Paci-Plushies may seem optional but at least it helps lessen the need of most parents to get up and find pacifiers. Further, you can simply reach out for them and then go back to sleep.

Sleep deprived parents of pacifier using tots know how exhausting it is to get up out of bed several times a night in order to replace missing pacifies for a wailing child. Paci-Plushies™, a plush pacifier holder which allows infants and toddlers to easily find a dropped pacifier, is scheduled to launch at the ABC Kids Expo in September, 2008.

(Source) PR.com

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But when it is time to get up; this is where the fuss begins. People have to decide on who will be first to get up, brush their teeth or just simply take a bath to carry on their day.

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