Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder RBD is a parasomnia that causes abnormal behavior during the rapid eye movement sleep phase (REM). Wikipedia defined a parasomnia that is categorized as a sleep disorder involving abnormal and unnatural movements, behaviors, emotions, perceptions and dreams that occur while falling asleep easy, sleeping, between sleep stages (NREM or REM), or during arousal from sleep. Read more »
Narcolepsy is a Daytime Sleep Disorder
What is narcolepsy? According to WebMD, narcolepsy is a daytime sleep disorder which neurologically affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. In other words, people experience uncontrollable episodes of falling asleep easy during the day, anytime of day. Typically when we fall asleep it takes about ninety minutes for rapid eye movement sleep (REM), narcoleptics REM sleep occurs right away. Researchers have discovered irregularities in various parts of the brain involved in regulating REM sleep patterns. These irregularities apparently contribute to the occurrence of narcoleptic symptoms. Experts believe there are many factors causing narcolepsy that act together causing neurological dysfunction and REM sleep disturbances. Read more »
Sleep Easy Beauty Secrets While Getting More ZZZs
“I need to get my beauty sleep” is a common saying, but does it have any truth to it? Dr. Michael Breus author of Beauty Sleep: Look Younger, Lose Weight and Feel Great Through Better Sleep tells us how to use the five senses to create the idyllic sleep environment and get the quality and quantity of zzzs you need. Here are some of his sleep easy beauty secrets while getting more zzzs: Read more »
Sleep Easy Tips and Techniques to Get More ZZZs
What are some the tell tale signs you are not getting enough sleep at night? Do you lay awake in bed more than 30 minutes? Do you get up during the night or wake up early in the morning? If you wake up, can you fall back to sleep easily? Are you tired during the day? Do you wake up refreshed or still sleepy? These are all symptoms of insomnia and you are suffering from sleep deprivation. Here are some sleep easy tips and techniques to get more zzz’s. Read more »
Sleep Easy without Night Terrors
CNN recently had an article about night terrors written by Lisa Shives, MD the founder of Northshore Sleep Medicine in Evanston, IL. She explains that experts don’t know what causes night terrors, but they are classified among arousal disorders or conditions in which someone is partially awake. The children may have their eyes open but they do not respond to external sounds or know that you are close by. They may scream, kick, panic, sleep walk, thrash, mumble or even think objects or persons are in their room scaring them. Night terrors can occur after two hours of sleep, can last from 10-30 minutes and the child often doesn't remember the episode the next morning. Helping your child sleep easy without night terrors can be difficult especially if your child can not be fully awakened to comfort them. What can be done? Read more »
Sweet Slumber Sound Machine for Bedtime Separation Anxiety
Bedtime separation anxiety is common for children under three years of age. When they are eight or nine months, children realize that their parents are around even if they can’t see them, but their ability to feel safe and secure without them can develop until they are three to four years old. Many time your toddler will end up in your bed if they wake up during the night to assure themselves that you are there before they can go back to sleep. This can cause you to have lack of sleep because of the limited space in your bed. I know my granddaughters climb into my daughter’s queen size bed and because there are two of them and they flop about, her husband is the one that ends up on the floor. I’ve often suggested putting a small foam mattress or sleeping bag next to their bed so when they do come in they can sleep near you and everyone still can get a full, good night’s sleep. What tips and techniques are available to help? Sweet Slumber Sound Machine for bedtime separation anxiety can sooth and simulate the sounds a baby hears in the womb. This sleep aide offers 12 soothing sounds, including lullabies, nature sounds and white noise to help the child go to sleep easy and stay asleep throughout the night. The white noise can also block out noises in the house that may otherwise wake the child. Read more »
Baby Blanket Sacks
The director of the International Hip Dysplasia Institute (IHDI), Dr. Charles T. Price, has trained parents in orthopedic care for children to improve the health and quality of life for those afflicted and/or concerned with infant hip dysplasia and sleep easy swaddling. He has been a part of the cause to advance pediatric orthopedics in the area of limb lengthening, limb deformity correction, non-operative and operative management of scoliosis and certain hip disorders in children. He is known for his clinical and academic achievements including scientific publications on a variety of subjects. Read more »
Sleep Paralysis
What is sleep paralysis? Sleep paralysis is when you cannot perform voluntary movements at the onset of sleep or upon awakening. Sleep paralysis is also known as isolated sleep paralysis, familial sleep paralysis, hynogogic or hypnopompic paralysis and predormital or postdormital paralysis. The symptoms of sleep paralysis range from the inability to move limbs, brief periods of partial or complete skeletal muscle paralysis and episodes can be associated with hypnagogic hallucinations or dream-like mentation which is the result from mental activity. Read more »
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