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In What Stage of Sleep Does Snoring Occur?
Snoring is not just an annoying habit. If snoring is frequent and loud, it may disrupt the snorer's sleep cycle and cause memory problems, depression or myriad other physical and mental disorders. It...
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What Causes Oxygen Desaturation During Sleep?
Loud, prolonged snoring interrupted with gasps and pauses in your breathing may signal a condition called sleep apnea. This cause and effect can be the result of an airway obstruction resulting in a...
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How to Naturally Stop Restlessness in Bed
Restlessness can be an irritating condition -- and when you're trying to sleep, it can become unbearable. Perhaps you suffer from restless leg syndrome, which involves an itching or tingling feeling in...
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How to Hold My Mouth Closed While Sleeping
Sleeping with your mouth open leads to a dry mouth and increases your chances of snoring. Sleeping with an open mouth also can make it more difficult to breathe, especially for people who have sleep...
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How to Stop Teenagers From Snoring
Teenagers don't usually know when they're snoring and if they do, and it is embarrassing enough for them to deny it. However, if your teenager is keeping the household awake because of his noisy...
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Tricks That Put Someone to Sleep
Sleep is no doubt important, and the amount of sleep you get in a night will determine how you face the rest of your day. If you're not getting enough sleep, it will begin to affect your mood, your...
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How to Train Your Body to Sleep Earlier
The body's natural sleep cycle can often be disrupted and changed by living conditions, eating and exercise habits or environmental factors such as noise or light. It is possible, however, to train the...
View ArticleHow to Break a Bad Sleep Cycle
An adequate amount of sleep is vital for a healthy body and mind. Sleep patterns can be thrown off when there is stress, a new baby in the home or other obstacles. When your sleep cycle is sidetracked...
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What Are the Causes of Early Morning Wakening?
Difficulty staying asleep all night is called insomnia. There are several different types of insomnia; one type is early morning wakening. Even though it is quite common, waking up too early is often...
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How to Use a Bipap Machine
Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition in which the airway is blocked off during sleep. It causes a person to stop breathing or to breathe ineffectively in his sleep and this can lead to a whole host...
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The Best CPAP Mask for Side Sleepers
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is the most common treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. It works by pressurizing the upper airway so that the soft palate cannot prolapse and cut off the...
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How to Stop Waking up So Groggy
The alarm bell rings and you groggily raise your head from your pillow. Is it really time to get up and start the day already? Waking up feeling groggy can be a sign that you need to work on your sleep...
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How to Change the Settings on a Resmed CPAP Machine
Resmed manufactures continuous positive airway pressure machines for patient use. A patient with sleep apnea or other breathing disorder during sleep wears a mask that is attached to the CPAP machine,...
View ArticleHow to Program a ResMed VPAP Machine
The ability to program a ResMed BiPAP bilevel machine is a vital part of treating breathing and sleeping disorders. BiPAP stands for variable levels of pressure. Setting the machine takes expertise and...
View ArticleHow to Dispose of a Used CPAP
A continuous positive airway pressure machine is used by people with sleep apnea to keep them breathing while asleep. Disposal becomes necessary once a machine no longer works, or is no longer needed...
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How to Stop Breathing Through Your Mouth
Chronic mouth breathing can have detrimental health effects if left unchecked. You may be able to consciously avoid it during the day, but many people suffer from mouth breathing at night when they are...
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How to Troubleshoot a Respironics BiPAP
Sleep apnea is a very common condition affecting up to 18 million Americans, according to the American Association for Respiratory Care. Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which...
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How to Wake Up Early Without Feeling Tired
To wake up early without feeling tired, you need to go to bed at a reasonable time and get enough deep sleep. The more comfortable the sleep environment, the better your sleep will be. And the better...
View ArticleHow to Clean a BiPAP Machine
A BiPAP or bi-level positive airway pressure device, delivers two different pressures of air for the treatment of sleep apnea. A higher pressure of air is delivered when you inhale, and a lower...
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What Are the Causes of Snoring in Women?
According to the National Sleep Foundation, 37 million adults snore consistently every night. Although men are twice as likely as women to snore, that number equalizes after menopause. The most common...
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