Snoring and All Snoring Remedies

Saturday, May 21st, 2011 at 8:24 PM

What is Snoring?

This approach affection is normally the well-known sleep at night defect which usually will threaten many most people by whatever years, even-though this shows up even more repeatedly within men of all ages as well as many people exactly who can be too heavy. Apnea comes with the leaning in order to exacerbate through years. 45 percentages associated with grown persons snore in some cases, at the same time 31 % really are viewed as persistent snorers.

The actual vigorous impediment for the amount associated with airflow throughout the actual oral cavity together with nose area certainly is the grounds for snoring. The actual areas within the tonsils vibrate for the period of respiratory, coming within the original tones associated with snoring.

Exactly what is the actual insinuation of that well-known going to bed event? Read the rest of this entry

Robotic Surgery Successful For Sleep Apnea Treatment

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 at 8:51 PM

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Sheiner suspected that he had sleep apnea which ran in his family, despite the fact that he was not overweight, which was the major reason for the disorder. This was confirmed by a sleep study and his doctors stated that his case was one of the worst cases of sleep apnea. Finally, after undergoing various treatments his doctors decided to perform a robotic surgery.

Erica Thaler, an ENT surgeon at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital reveals that Sheiner’s sleep study showed that he woke up over 112 times every hour meaning that Sheiner didn’t breathe for ten seconds i.e. about two times in a minute. Sleep apnea is being treated with a robotic surgery to remove the cancerous tumors found at the back of the throat. Sleep apnea is a common and chronic sleep disorder where patients stop breathing while asleep. They suddenly and repeatedly gasp for breath in the night due to enlarged tonsilar tissue and tonsils, their airways are blocked. Read the rest of this entry

Sleep Test Finds If Your Kid Has Mild Sleep Apnea

Sunday, February 27th, 2011 at 8:05 PM

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Many people think it’s cute when their kids snore – but they actually may not be getting enough sleep. Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a common problem in children and can affect behavior and cause other medical problems. The most successful treatment is well known surgical procedure.

Dr. Christopher Murry, an ear, nose and throat specialist recommends a sleep study to determine if kids have obstructive sleep apnea, people who have it stop and start breathing again many times during the night.

For this children would need to spent the night at the Maine Sleep Institute’s sleep lab, located at Maine Medical Center. An overnight sleep test would find out if a kid has mild sleep apnea and it could keep a kid from growing normally.

“If they have disruptive sleep, sleep fragmentation, then they don’t release growth hormones as they should. They may burn acalories at night just from the sleep disorder breathing and arousals at night,” said Dr. Murry.

Thesleep problems also aggravate asthma and reflux problems among kids. Dr. Murry recommends taking out the tonsils and adenoids.

Doctors say tonsillectomies help relieve health problems in up to 70 prercent of children who have sleep disorder problems. They say parents should tell their pediatrician if their child snores or has trouble sleeping at night, so they can be referred to a specialist.

Sleep Study(Polysomnography) Helps Predict Post-Surgery Respiratory Problems in Children

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011 at 4:02 PM

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A recently concluded U.S.research study established that studying the sleeping behavior of children might help point out who are at high risks of developing respiratory disorders after surgical removal of their adenoids and tonsils. The research involves studying the medical records in a pediatric hospital of as many as 1,131 children who had undergone surgery.

The researchers discovered that there were 151 patients who participated in polysomnography (sleep study) before going under the knife. Out of that number, 23 later developed respiratory problems. The same number of children scored much higher than their healthy counterparts on the apnea-hyopnea index.

The index is designed to measure how severe a person is suffering from sleep apnea, as well as the gravity of disruptions they experience while sleeping and low levels of oxygen in their blood. Meanwhile, the children who scored high on the hyopnea index were found to take very shallow breaths and thus exhibited severely low respiratory rates.

Tonsils Removal As Obstructive Sleep Apnea Treatment For Children:Research Explores Hinderances

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 2:29 PM

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In a recently completed research study the researchers examined that among children undergoing adenotonsillectomyfor obstructive sleep apnea, what are the responsible factors that promote incompleteresolution of obstructive sleep apnea.

In quest to this exploration researchers attempted to assess the efficacy of surgical removal of the tonsils andadenoids (adenotonsillectomy [AT]) in the treatment of obstructivesleep apnea (OSA) in children, and to delineate factors associatedwith persistent OSA, a retrospective review of pre- and postsurgerypolysomnograms (PSG) through a research study which was conducted at eight facilities in theUS and Europe. Read the rest of this entry

New Sleep Center Opens in Central Washington

Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at 4:43 PM

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Central Washington Sleep Diagnostic Center recently opened it’s second branch in Moses Lake at 2323 W. Broadway Ave., Unit 4.

The sleep center is here to help people experiencing sleeping disorders, as more than 70 million Americans’ sleep is currently affected. The affects of sleep deprivation include depression, brain fog, change in mental status, short-term memory loss, weight gain, high blood pressure, stroke, heart disease, traffic accidents, workplace accidents and injuries. Read the rest of this entry