Health Topic: Sleep Video #1: “Kids and Sleep Apnea” URL- http://www.webmd.com/video/kids-and-sleep-apnea Alyssa Mitzkat‚ a six years old girl‚ suffered Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). This is a sleep disorder characterized by abnormal episodes of blocked breathing during sleep. Each pause in breathing‚ called an apnea‚ can last from a few seconds to minutes‚ and may occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. As the video shows‚ Cindy‚ Alyssa’s mother‚ noticed that her daughter was having a
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“Understanding Sleep Problems” More then half of American’s experience a sleep problem at some time in their life. Weather it is stress-induced insomnia‚ poor sleep hygiene‚ or a poor environment. The most common form of sleeping problem would be insomnia. Insomnia is the inability of a person to fall asleep‚ stay asleep‚ or fall back asleep upon waking. People that have insomnia often complain about impairments of attention‚ memory‚ ability to work and function. Insomnia can also affect one’s
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Sleep deprivation Sleep has an enormous effect on our daily life and health. A full night’s sleep is needed to perform well at work or school and maintain a healthy body. The old cliché of eight hours of sleep per night rings in everyone’s mind but is ignored by most. Age is the determining factor for how much sleep a person needs per night; different people require different amounts of rest a night. In today’s society people‚ go through days yawning‚ fighting to stay awake and indulging
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Early Bird Gets The Worm‚ The Later Bird Gets More Sleep Teenagers are infamous for spending their weekends sleeping in‚ staying up during weekdays doing homework‚ and especially when it comes to the ever so daunting task for parents to getting them out of bed. Laziness is also associated with teenagers and is considered a bad habit which several teenagers share in common. Although sleep is often misconstrued as just another form of laziness‚ sleep is beneficial to the body and mind. For those parents
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2010 03:40 PM by findingDulcinea Staff Research shows that teens’ natural sleep cycle is to sleep later in the morning. Some schools are responding by pushing back start times. Ringing the School Bell Later Share Teens have long felt that the school day starts too early: A 2007 survey of teens in Philadelphia found that most students believed a 7:30 a.m. start time at school prevented them from getting enough sleep. Ninety percent of the students surveyed felt that if school started later‚
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The Effects of Going Without Sleep Remember back when Mom used to set bedtimes and we pretended to fall asleep? Well‚ many of us probably regret not taking advantage of that time. Today‚ many Americans lack sleep and time always seems to be the first to blame. Many say that there is not enough time in their schedule for sleep when in reality other factors are to blame such as: friends and family‚ school‚ work‚ and social events. Although there are several factors that
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Sleep Disorders Sleeping is a state when our body relaxes the most‚ all the motor activity and senses are suspended when we are asleep. Although when sleeping we look inactive‚ some functions of our brain and body are actually more active when we are asleep. During sleep there is a lot going on in your body and that is why sleeping is as important to your health as eating healthy and exercising. There are several reactions caused by lack of sleeping time‚ such as insomnia‚ chronic insomnia‚ and
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February 27‚ 2013 Sleep Deprivation Effecting Lives? More people today have less access to sleep‚ than they did over a century ago. The question becomes‚ is the lack of sleep destroying lives? It would seem with access to a bed every night‚ people would have all the sleep they need. Yet‚ more students and hard working adults are barely making it to bed to get what is called “A full nights rest”. What are the reasons for this? Can‚ and should‚ the people be more aware what sleep deprivation could
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rushing to get to school on time. Going to school so early makes student miss out on a good breakfast. If students got more sleep‚ they would have a good breakfast‚ would have time to review their studies‚ and they would even be less depressed. Just changing the school time by 45 minutes would make a huge difference and solve many problems. The National Sleep Foundation (How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?”) says‚ “ The amount of time it takes for a student to be “fully” awake is 45 minutes after fully getting
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Sleep deprivation is a huge problem amongst hundreds of thousands of teenagers across the country. The thousands of teenagers that roll out of bed around 6:30 in the morning‚ after a night filled with extra-curriculars‚ homework‚ and a huge amount of procrastination‚ that usually results in most teens going to bed past midnight. To myself‚ and my peers‚ sleep deprivation has been a major problem‚ and I have failed to perform to my highest abilities due to lack of sleep in the past. Like many other
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