Statistics say that nearly half of the adult population snores and over 25 percent of them are habitual snorers. Snoring is more common in males than in females, and the problem usually gets worse as we age. While we all agree snoring is bothersome to other people who...
Pediatric sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder in children that causes the child to stop breathing while sleeping. According to the American Sleep Apnea Association, 1 to 4 percent of U.S. children suffer from sleep apnea. Although the age of children who have the...
In times past, a lot of people glazed over the possibility of having a sleep disorder and assumed that their sleep disturbances were just minor inconveniences. However, in this day and age, people are beginning to grasp the seriousness of conditions like sleep apnea...
When we take a breath of fresh air into our lungs, oxygen passes from the lungs to the blood where it is picked up and carried through the blood vessels by a molecule called haemoglobin. This oxygen-rich blood is then pumped by the heart throughout the body so that...
Breathing can be measured in two ways: the first is to count the number of breaths per minute; the second is to determine the size of each breath. Normal breathing rate for a grown adult at rest is about twelve breaths per minute, taking in half a litre of air per...
Konstantin Buteyko discovered that the best position to sleep was on the left hand side or on the tummy. Ventilation is reduced while sleeping on the left-hand side given the position of the heart and on the tummy given the weight of the body restricting...