Archive for April, 2008

Food is the main aspect, which is responsible for attaining good sleep at night times.

Good food makes you to get better sleep where as bad one disturbs it.

People who are suffering with sleep disorders must follow proper diet as it is responsible to get better sleep.

Experts say that consumption of oily, fatty and high calorie food at night time will have certainly high impact on people who are suffering with several sleep problems.

Such types of foods make you to feel uncomfortable and inconvenience in your stomach at your sleeping time. Other than discomfort, they also make you to not attain good sleep at night times.

Some digestion and gastric problems will also develop if you consume oily, fatty and high calorie food at night times. Usually, people tend to go to bed immediately after consuming food at night times. Due to this habit, they don’t give proper physical exercise required to the body immediately after eating.

Physical exercise after eating doesn’t mean that you have to perform certain workouts immediately after eating, but simple and easy concepts like walking and roaming here and there can make your digestive track active and the problems of digestion will also be reduced with this practice.

The national prescribing services limited (NPS) is advising their consumers regarding the various adverse reactions, which can obtain when they use the sleeping pills of stilnox.

The actual brand name for the stilnox medicine is zolpidem.

NPS is recommending people who are suffering with sleep disorders to follow non-medicine strategies in solving their problem like relaxation, regular exercise, avoiding some stimulants such as caffeine, tea, cola etc.

They said that this practice will not cause any side-effects, but the results will be seen slowly.

They also said that the consumption of stilnox doesn’t cause any problem to the health of the sleep disorders sufferers unless and until they consume large doses within short period of time. Little consumption is recommended, but should not be taken without physician’s suggestion.

NPS has also issued a chart of potential side effects of zolpidem. Each and every user of this medicine will not obtain same side effects. All side effects which will occur to the person with zolpidem will be dependent on the health of the person and the dose of consumption they take regularly.

According to the research, children with migraine are at increased risk of sleep disorders like sleep apnea than children without migraine.

Severe migraine is associated with short total sleep time, long total time to fall asleep and short REM sleep.

Study was conducted on 90 children, who went for polysomnogram. This sleep test monitors the eye movements, brain, heart rhythm, breathing and muscle activity. In 90 children, who participated in study, 60 had migraine, 11 had chronic headache, 6 had chronic headache and 13 children had non-specific headache.

According to the study, children with migraine are twice at increased risk of sleep apnea, also known as sleep disordered breathing, than other children. Sleep disordered breathing was found in 56 percent of children with migraine than 30 percent of children with non-migraine headache.

The study also found that 50 percent of children with tension headache grind their teeth at night compared to 2.4 percent of children with non-tension headache.

According to the study author Martina Vendrame, MD, PhD, the problems caused by migraine are aggravated by sleep problems on a child’s health and can hinder the performance of a child at school.

In recent studies, it has been proved that sleepwalking can be diagnosed through sleep deprivation. Sleepwalking usually involves unresponsiveness and misperception to the environment. In some cases, amnesia and mental confusion are also responsible for somnambulism.

The research has also proved that out of 100 percent, 4 percent of the people are suffering with the problem of sleepwalking. There is a sharp rise in the studies related to sleep walking because it includes injuries and aggressive behaviors.

Somnambulism will be diagnosed with the help of person’s clinical history, but the latest study found that it can be diagnosed easily with the help of sleep deprivation method.

According to the expert’s view, reason for obtaining the problem of sleepwalking is also difficult to find out. Each and everyone will have different cause for attaining this problem. We can’t predict the reason for attaining the problem of sleepwalking immediately after observing him or her for sometime [Sleepwalking treatment].

Even experienced doctors also take time (days or weeks) to find the cause of sleepwalking in a person as several factors will be involved in it. Almost all the doctors first find the clinical history of the person if he/she is suffering with the problem of the sleepwalking. Sometimes this problem can also be attained hereditary, so it takes time for the doctors to find the right cause for the occurrence of sleepwalking.

According to the latest research, adults who are suffering with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) can accomplish sleep benefits with methylphenidate, including the restoration value of the sleep and increased sleep efficiency.

The study was conducted in the central institute of mental health in Mannheim regarding methylphenidate and its benefits in adults with ADHD.

In the study, they chose 34 non-medicated adult patients who are suffering with ADHD, whom 24 patients don’t have, any psychiatric disorder. All of them have given the same type of treatment with methylphenidate [Tips for coping ADHD].

Good results were found with this research; all 34 members have altered sleep architecture and they showed a trend towards reduced REM (reduced eye movement) density and elevated percentage of wakefulness after the sleep.

The research also said that the subjective and objective sleep problems, which are seen in adults with ADHD will be similar to that of the children who are suffering with ADHD, including more nocturnal activities, more nocturnal awakenings, reduced sleep efficiency, longer sleep latencies, etc.

The pill, known only by the codename BGC20-0166, is a combination of two existing drugs that affect areas of the brain associated with muscles in the airway and airflow.

The apnoea-hypopnea index - a measure of the frequency and severity of breathing pauses through the night - was recorded in overnight studies after 14 days and again after 28 days.

Those who were taking the new pill showed a 40 per cent reduction in symptoms - with patients suffering no side-effects.

Three out of ten people on the new drug had a 50 per cent reduction in symptoms [Remedies to stop snoring].

The drug is being developed by BTG, a life sciences company based in London and Philadelphia.

Thomas Roth, director of the Sleep Disorders and Research Centre at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, claims that taking a daily pill can curb a common snoring disorder affecting thousands of people.

Researchers have begun trialling a drug which helps manage obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSA).

However Marianne Davey, director of the British Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Association, issued a warning. She said: “At the moment, the consensus is that there is no drug therapy that would be completely successful in treating OSA.”

People who get good sleep at night times will be more active when compared to the people who don’t get good sleep.

Good sleep can make the mind fresh with required rest. With refreshed mind, your energy levels will boost up. So, you will be more active than other people who don’t have proper sleep.

Your mind is compared to a battery, which is required to be charged whenever the power is less.

Similarly, the mind of the human beings also requires the rest and relaxation in the form of sleep to become active and recharged.

As all of you know, if the battery is charged for some period of time, it works more effectively, where as if it is not charged, certainly it will not come in use.

The same thing is applicable for your mind and body also; if you get proper rest, you will work effectively; otherwise you will not give better output.

The mind without rest makes you irritated for little things and it will be in such a state that it cannot be able to give better outputs with sharp and active decisions. Your energy levels with lack of sleep will be low because several disorders can develop in your body and mind and you will be frustrated easily for small and normal mistakes which occur in your daily routine.

The new study made by the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center says that the surgery which is made to remove the adenoids and tonsils of the children will be successful for short-term only.

Mostly, children who are obese will have very few chances of success in surgery of chronic snoring as several complications will be involved in surgery and those things will not make it successful [Remedies to stop snoring].

Other than the obese children, the African-American children will also have the less success rate in the chronic snoring surgery to remove adenoids and tonsils. In some cases, it tend to relapse and even worsen. The clear reason for this situation will not be able to find easily as there are several factors involved in it.

Adenotonsillectomy is the surgery which will be performed on children to remove their tonsils and adenoids. This is not a rare surgery; most children are undergoing this surgery.

According to the latest research on the children who undergone this surgery found some facts i.e. out of 10,000 children in Canada, 19 members have undergone this surgery, similarly in US, out of 10000 children, 50 members and in Netherlands, out of 10000 children, 115 members have received this surgery.