Category: Sleep Health

Inadequate retirement funds – a cause of anxiety and sleep disturbance?

After a month’s holidays’ travel  in the UK a few years back, we discovered what we’d long suspected was true, was! Continue reading “Are you retiring? Do you have anxiety and sleep disturbance?”

Development – it works both ways!

Abstract: Sleep disordered breathing can start early, it frequently affects children and can affect the development of the face and jaws (a longer face, narrower dental arch and palate). As this develops it affects the workings or physiology of the jaws and breathing increases the risk of SDB worsening, in other words there is a bi-directional relationship to SDB and jaw and face development. Continue reading “Can Sleep affect Jaw and Airway Development?”

 Does Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) damage Upper Airway Motor nerves?

Snoring is a form of sleep disordered breathing, but far from just being a benign nuisance to the bedpartner, we know of its association with various other diseases especially stroke. But is it possible that snoring can become a viscous cycle upon itself?

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Do you suffer dreams or nightmares, especially about drowning?

While it sounds likely and I’ve heard it reported, studies about obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and dreaming don’t seem to support either more or less dreaming with obstructive sleep apnea. Continue reading “Does Obstructive sleep apnea affect my emotions and my dreams?”