Author: Shirley
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What is a Normal Blood Oxygen Level by Age?
Your blood oxygen level refers to the amount of oxygen that your red blood cells are carrying throughout your body. Oxygen is a crucial nutrient that allows your cells and organs to function properly. As you breathe, oxygen travels into your lungs and then gets absorbed by red blood cells in the lungs’ air sacs…
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Using Pulse Oximetry to Detect Sleep Apnea
In obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), intermittent narrowing or complete blockage of the upper airway can occur, preventing airflow. Breathing can stop or become shallow, and pauses in breathing can last from a few seconds to minutes. Furthermore, this can occur 30 times or more per hour. Obstruction of airflow can lead to a state of…
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Best Tinnitus Maskers: Sound Therapy Options for Tinnitus Relief
Patients with tinnitus often find that their tinnitus symptoms are less bearable when in a quiet environment and that other, external sounds make the internal sounds produced by tinnitus less noticeable. As discussed in my article about tinnitus, sound therapy is an approach used to help treat tinnitus symptoms. It focuses on utilizing external noises…
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Hammocking with Sleep Apnea
If you or someone you know has sleep apnea, you may have wondered if sleeping in a hammock is a possible solution to not having to use a CPAP machine at night while camping. There are also many avid campers out there with sleep apnea wondering if hammock camping is a possibility for them. Here,…
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7+ Best Dental Appliance for Sleep Apnea
For those patients with sleep apnea who find that CPAP masks do not work for them, is too uncomfortable or burdensome, or are just looking for a different sleep apnea treatment option, there are a couple of main alternatives: surgery or dental appliances. For this review, I carefully researched the many options out there to…
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Will CPAP Increase Blood Oxygen?
Do you have sleep apnea and are on a CPAP machine or your doctor plans to start you on one? If you have sleep apnea, it means that your airways are obstructed, which disrupts your breathing throughout the night. If you’re not breathing properly at night, then you’re not getting enough oxygen. Will CPAP…
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Wellue O2Ring vs. Lookee Ring Sleep Oxygen Monitor
Are you on the search for a device that will help you track your oxygen levels overnight? Are you looking for guidance on which one out of the many options available is the best for you? After heavily researching the best overnight pulse oximeter options to meet your wireless oxygen monitoring needs, I’ve found that…
