Let’s continue on the topic of napping.
We left off discussing some of the negative aspects of
napping. We were reviewing the concept
of sleep inertia and how if a nap is too long, a person might have a reduction
in performance and worsened mood soon after waking. Obviously this usually is counterproductive
to the... Read more
Let’s continue on our topic of naps in healthy adults- the
good, the bad, and the otherwise.
Some more good news about napping. As we all have probably experienced in our
life, a short nap has helped us learn something that we simply couldn’t grasp
beforehand. This is because after
intense work, parts of our... Read more
Don’t think you will
be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That’s a foolish notion held by people with
no imaginations. You will be able to
accomplish more. You get two days in
one- well at least one and a half. - Winston Churchill
Or as Yogi Berra put it:
I usually take a... Read more
Let us continue talking about pediatric obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA). We have covered its
background and complications, now its time for us to talk a little about
treatment.
As we explained in previous blogs, as opposed to adults
where OSA is most often related to being overweight, in otherwise healthy kids
the most common... Read more
I’d like to continue on the topic of obstructive sleep apnea
(OSA) in children.
As we mentioned OSA is the repetitive stopping of breathing
due to an obstruction in the child’s airway. OSA can occur in children of all ages, but is probably more common in
pre-school children. As we explained, in
most children... Read more
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