Archive | August, 2011

Sleep Efficiency

Sleep Efficiency

Simply put, sleep efficiency is the ratio taken from the time you spent lying in bed with the actual time you are sleeping till the moment you wake up the following day. There are a lot of debates regarding what is the best sleep efficiency, and tests have been used to check the correlation between [...]

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Diet and Relaxation Techniques as a Natural Help to Induce Sleep

Diet and Relaxation Techniques as a Natural Help to Induce Sleep

Have you ever experienced lying in bed, staring at a single spot in the ceiling, wishing yourself to be asleep, but ending up tossing and turning all night long? When counting jumping sheep in your mind won’t work, chances are you are in for a long, restless night. Having sleepless nights does happen but in [...]

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Three-Month-Old Infant’s Sleep Schedule and Ways to Enhance It

Three-Month-Old Infant’s Sleep Schedule and Ways to Enhance It

To the new moms and dads, getting your little tot to sleep could be hard since they tend to wake up very often especially in the first couple of months. This may be all right in the first few days since new parents seem so eager to play with their baby, but as reality kicks [...]

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Sleep Paralysis Treatment

Sleep Paralysis Treatment

Sleep paralysis could be terrifying to say the least. This is characterized by being not able to move on the bed even if you are awake or half-awake. Although generally not harmful, it does leave you feeling stressed and worn out the moment you fully wake up and are able to move again. These incidents [...]

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Sleeping After a Concussion: Is it Safe?

Sleeping After a Concussion: Is it Safe?

Concussions happen when there is blunt-force trauma to the head. It might be caused by moving objects hitting your head with a hard impact, or it could be caused by falling down and hitting your head hard on the floor. It is also common in vehicular accidents as the head usually makes an impact on [...]

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Check Your Sleep Aids: Melatonin Should Be in the List

Check Your Sleep Aids: Melatonin Should Be in the List

If you ask most insomniacs or elderly people who just couldn’t get a good night’s sleep what’s the best of all sleep aids, melatonin would most probably be their answer. Although mild sedatives are also effective sleep-inducers, melatonin has gained more popularity in the market. Perhaps one of the reasons why melatonin is popular with [...]

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