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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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We tend to focus here at sleepandsnoringaids.com on how a person can stop snoring. This is something to be aimed for, and a snoring aid can usually help to reduce the frequency and the volume of either you or your partner’s snores, but is there another solution? If a person’s snoring isn’t a symptom of [...]
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For most people, a Standard Snoring Aid is enough to help people alleviate their problems with snoring. In some more severe cases, however, there is also the option of surgery. Now, this isn’t for everyone, and it really is something of a last resort. That being said, it can, when done well and for the [...]
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