Apr 2, 2020 | Sleep Disorders, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?
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...
Sep 30, 2019 | Sleep Disorders, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?
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...
Sep 15, 2019 | Sleep Disorders, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?
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...
Nov 24, 2015 | Anxiety, Asthma, Asthma and Exercise, Asthma and Food, Exercises to Combat Asthma, Exercises to Combat Sleep Disorders, History of Buteyko, How is Your Breathing, Information about Buteyko, Science of Sleep Disorders, Sleep Disorders, The Facts About Asthma, What is Insomnia?, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?, Your Breathing Muscles
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...
Nov 24, 2015 | Anxiety, Asthma, Asthma and Exercise, Exercises to Combat Asthma, Exercises to Combat Sleep Disorders, How is Your Breathing, Information about Buteyko, Sleep Disorders, The Facts About Asthma, What is Insomnia?, What is Sleep Apnea?, What is Snoring?
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...
Mar 26, 2014 | Science of Sleep Disorders, Mouth Breathing, Sleep Disorders, What is Sleep Apnea?
It is inevitable that a child with a blocked nose will breathe through his mouth. Mouth breathing children often develop poor facial structures such as undeveloped chins, narrow faces and nostrils, crooked teeth, sunken cheeks and eyes, and larger noses. When a...
