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Does Secondhand Smoke Increase Your Child’s Risk of Sleep Apnea?

March 18, 2024

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You already know about the negative effects that smoking has on your body, but did you know that it can affect the people around you as well? Secondhand smoke can have all sorts of dangerous side effects – especially for younger children. In fact, secondhand smoke may increase children’s risk of obstructive sleep apnea. This disorder keeps them from getting the quality sleep they need to thrive. Continue reading to learn more about obstructive sleep apnea and how secondhand smoke plays a role.

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Can Sleep Apnea Cause Bedwetting?

February 19, 2024

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While about one in four children have problems with wetting the bed at some point, it is believed that one to two percent of adults may deal with this same embarrassing problem. While it isn’t a big deal if it happens once or on occasion, persistent or frequent bedwetting may be the result of a medical condition called sleep apnea. Here’s how sleep apnea and bedwetting are related and how they can be treated.

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Unseen Complications: Can Sleep Apnea Lead to Blindness?

February 16, 2024

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Did you know that there are millions of people throughout America who have issues with blindness or significantly impaired vision? These disabilities can be due to a number of reasons, including cataracts, accidental injuries, or simply genetics. However, one of the biggest culprits of vision impairment is diabetic retinopathy, which can be minimized with plenty of rest. But if you’re struggling with sleep apnea? Keep reading to learn how this sleeping disorder can contribute to blindness and what you can do about it.

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Sleeping Without Snoring: Why Sleep Apnea Treatment Can Be an Excellent Valentine’s Gift

February 13, 2024

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Sometimes you can love someone very much and still be driven crazy by their snoring. Since more than 90 million North Americans snore, many people find their sleep regularly disrupted by their loved one’s noisy breathing. While this is certainly a troublesome issue on its own, snoring can be the result of sleep apnea, a condition that can frequently interrupt sleep and lead to higher rates of cardiovascular disease. Here’s how you can make sleep apnea treatment into a great gift for Valentine’s Day!

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How Can Essential Oils Help Manage Sleep Apnea?

January 23, 2024

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Sleep is crucial to a person’s health. When we sleep, our bodies repair and regenerate tissues and the brain sorts through and categorizes everything it learned during the day. If someone isn’t sleeping enough, they can develop serious health problems such as high blood pressure or even have dangerous accidents like crashing a car after falling asleep behind the wheel. Sleep apnea is a medical condition that can frequently disrupt a patient’s sleep, but there are things you can do at home to mitigate its symptoms. Here’s how essential oil can help manage sleep apnea.

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What Can Make My Sleep Apnea Symptoms Worse?

January 15, 2024

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Obstructive sleep apnea is a health condition that can have serious implications for your overall health. It can regularly interrupt a person’s sleep more than a hundred times in a single night, and this restless sleep can leave a person weary throughout the day and more likely to develop cardiovascular issues like high blood pressure. Here are a few factors that may worsen a case of sleep apnea along with a few changes you can make to mitigate the problem.

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What’s the Link Between Sleep Apnea & Rheumatoid Arthritis?

January 11, 2024

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Did you know that as many as 30% of Americans report that they struggle to fall or stay asleep? This percentage nearly doubles when looking at people who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This autoimmune disease causes widespread inflammation that leads to stiffness, swelling, and joint pain. If you have RA and can never seem to get quality sleep, continue reading. There could be a link between your RA and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)! Continue reading to learn more about how they are related.

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Caution: 4 Dangers of Untreated Sleep Apnea

November 13, 2023

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It’s just a bad night of sleep—no big deal. That’s what you tell yourself day after day, but could your nightly problems lead to more serious dangers? If it’s sleep apnea and you don’t get treated, it could be a life-or-death situation! You may underestimate the impact that your sleep apnea can have on you and those around you, so keep reading to learn about how it could lead to disaster and why you should get treated.

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Trouble in Paradise: How Sleep Apnea Can Harm Your Relationships

September 12, 2023

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man snoring and woman covering her ears irritated

As the sunlight shines on your bed, you and your partner stir awake. What could be a sweet, romantic moment between you instantly turns sour when they complain yet again about your loud snoring throughout the night. Reluctantly, the two of you start another fatigue-filled day on a resentful note. In this instance and many others like it, sleep disordered breathing (e.g., sleep apnea) could be interfering with your relationship.

Relationships can be challenging enough without sleep apnea, so continue reading to learn why you should eliminate this problem and how addressing the condition can help.

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Drowsy Driving and Sleep Apnea: A Potentially Deadly Combination

May 12, 2023

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yawning man in the driver’s seat of a car

As your tires run over the rumble strip between lanes, you jolt. For a split second, you’re not sure where you are or what you’re doing. You realize you’re driving and have been sleepy for the past few miles. In fact, you weren’t paying enough attention and have missed your exit. But driving while you’re drowsy can lead to more serious consequences than just an annoying inconvenience—it could be deadly!

In this post, you’ll learn why drowsy driving is not something to take lightly and how it’s connected to sleep apnea and snoring.

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