From the category archives:
Sleeping with someone who snores can be a nightmare. We all know it’s true. Everyone’s had that moment when we look across at our loved one as they sleep, and hear them start to snore! Of course, the fact that they’re fast asleep means that it can be virtually impossible to make them believe that [...]
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Insomnia, and sleep deprivation in general, is a problem which can effect almost every aspect of our lives, but is easy to overlook. After all, because we all suffer from lack of sleep, from time to time, and sometimes it’s just the way things are- there are times when despite being tired, you just have to [...]
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Traditionally, the way to diagnose Sleep Apnea in a patient, or rather to confirm a diagnosis, has been for that patient to spend a night in a sleep lab. There, a complicated series of monitors and sensors would determine that OSA was indeed the issue- air pressure readings, heart-rate monitors and so on would be [...]
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There’s a lot of stories about how snoring is a bad thing, but in the interests of balance, here’s a story about how snoring saved someone’s life! This was a house fire in Omaha, US, where Kenneth Fox, a local police officer who answered a general distress call whilst out on a routine patrol found [...]
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We’ve dealt with Sleep Apnea, its symptoms, causes and treatment, extensively in previous articles here, but today we’re going to turn to a similar condition, which is starting to attract some clinical attention- Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome. This is a medical condition which has only recently been identified, and shares many common features with Sleep [...]
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