- "Doctor, I have had insomnia recently. What's wrong with my body?"
- "Have a sleep study first, please."
- "Doctor, I always snore when sleeping."
- "You may need to undergo a sleep study at first, and then I can diagnose it."
- "Doctor, I often sleepwalk during the night."
- "Firstly, please get a sleep study"
When it comes to going to the hospital for tests, people have a certain understanding of having blood drawn to measure blood lipids, liver function, etc., having an endoscopy to view the stomach and intestines and some normal tests. However, when we go to the hospital to see a sleep disorder, the doctor will recommend that we first have a sleep study. Then many patients may wonder what the sleep study is? How can the doctor tell whether I am sick from one sleep study?
The sleep study involves one person sleeping overnight at a sleep center, in a hospital, or even a special hotel room, where a doctor can get information about his breathing, oxygen levels in his blood, sleep death, etc. Various wires are attached to his body before he goes to sleep, similar to a 12-lead electrocardiogram, but more wires. The doctor will evaluate the data collected by a technologist, and diagnose what problems the person has with his sleep and the severity of those problems.
Different types of sleep studies include:
Monitoring an overnight sleep condition can collect a lot of raw information, which can then be analyzed by the doctor, and further indicators can be obtained.
1. Sleep depth
By monitoring and recording the brain's EEG (electroencephalography) and eye movements, the doctor can analyze and judge whether the one slept well or not. For snoring patients, the better the sleep, the heavier the snoring condition might be that night, and the examination can better reflect the snoring condition; on the contrary, the examination might not reflect the real snoring condition well. For patients with insomnia, the analysis of sleep depth is a good reflection of the patient's real sleep condition, rather than just relying on the patient's description.
2. Blood oxygen saturation
Collecting the change of oxygen levels in the blood overnight can determine the severity of snoring. As this following pic shows, Checkme™ O2 Max Wrist Oxygen Monitor can monitor your SpO2 for long-time, up to 72 hours. Its comfortable wearing method will not disturb your deep sleep.
3. Breathing patterns
By monitoring the airflow and temperature changes of the mouth and nose, and the degree of movement of the thorax and abdomen, the doctor can know whether the patient has sleep apnea and whether the apnea is caused by airway obstruction or by a central problem.
4. Muscle activity during sleep
The muscle activity during sleep helps the doctor to determine the depth of sleep and to assess the presence of diseases such as RLS (restless leg syndrome).
5. Electrocardiogram
The doctor can use the ECG to detect cardiac abnormalities that occur during sleep.
6. Other stats
In addition, a sleep study monitors body movement and intraesophageal pressure, thus it is an essential test for diagnosing sleep-related disorders.
If you have symptoms such as snoring, breath-holding, insomnia, sleepwalking, excessive daytime sleepiness, morning dizziness and headache, a sleep study is needed.
When you get a sleep study in the hospital, you may feel slight discomfort due to the lead wires. If your sleep is affected by some factors, it is necessary to re-monitor again.
The cost of a sleep study varies from the type of testing being used and what a facility charges. Usually, an in-center sleep study costs about $500-$3000.
It is recommended that you go to the hospital if you have severe symptoms and have money and time. But if you just snore in your sleep and want to screen whether you have mild sleep disorder, you can use some continuous overnight oxygen monitor to see your health conditions, such as Wellue's continuous oxygen monitors or vital signs monitors, which are cheaper and convenient to monitor your sleep condition.
Wellue provides customers home used monitoring products, which is affordable and more convenient. Wellue's O2Ring continuous oxygen monitor is reviewed as the best-in-class option for overnight oxygen monitoring.
Continuous overnight oxygen monitor is designed for home test, providing important indicators of human health.
By its design, Wellue has ring oxygen monitor and wrist oxygen monitor.
By its function, there are sleep apnea oxygen monitor and pediatric oxygen monitor, both with vibrate alarm.
By its users, Wellue has continuous overnight blood oxygen monitor for family, for baby and for patients with obstructive sleep apnea or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Continuous oxygen monitoring is a better way to prescribe long-term oxygen therapy.
- Continuously monitoring oxygen levels in the blood
First, it can monitor one's oxygen saturation over time, providing more utility for trends over time instead of absolute thresholds. See Wellue's O2Ring Continuous Ring Oxygen Monitor as the following pic. As a sleep apnea oxygen monitor, it can monitor your blood oxygen saturation for all night, up to 12 hours. Additonally, it has optional silent vibration and audio alarms to alert when the SpO2 and heart rate are abnormal.
- Alarms for low oxygen levels and abnormal heart rate
Second, if your oxygen levels are dangerously low or your abnormal heart rates are detected, it can alert with vibration or audio alarm on the APP, which is particularly helpful for newborns or patients with obstructive sleep apnea.
- PDF/CSV Analysis and trend charts from Free APP & PC Software can be shared with doctors
Third, the support of data recording and sharing actually could offer peace of mind to people with chronic respiratory or cardiovascular conditions, or people under anesthesia, and also help doctors to diagnose and make treatment plans quicker.
- Helpful for treatments, even for remote patients monitoring
Fourth, Wellue's wearable oxygen monitors with its APP can also help assess the need for supplemental oxygen. For instance, when this is done overnight, a continuous measurement can be graphed. The graph can be shared, so as to help the doctor see if you have enough oxygen in your body when you sleep and ensure the amount of supplemental oxygen. The Oxylink™ Remote Oxygen Monitor with a remote linker, showing in the next pic, is a product for long-distance monitoring, which offers a telehealth solution for homecare and clinic. Especially, the remote linker is a telehealth device suitable for quarantined patients monitoring, family remote monitoring, elderly care and community health care. With the remote linker, the real-time SpO2, pulse rate, pulse wave will transfer via Wi-Fi, and so it's easy to share the data with the doctor. Then the doctor can make the treatment plans quicker.
- Showing the important indicator of human health
Fifth, the continuously monitored blood oxygen saturation level will indicate dangerous side effects in people taking drugs that affect breathing or oxygen saturation, so as to
Patients with severe sleep apnea such as OSA will be suggested by the doctor to treat with a CPAP machine.
Wellue iBreeze™ APAP Machine (See here) changes the pressure level of the air to a patient on a breath by breath basis, far advanced than traditional CPAPs. But Wellue's iBreeze Auto-CPAP Machine also has a CPAP mode which maintains the air pressure at a fixed value. The user is able to discover which therapy mode really works better. This iBreeze™ APAP Machine will free your breath for a night of sleep.
In addition, Wellue iBreeze™ BiPAP Machine is ideal for treating COPD, OSA, CSA, OHA, etc. It will safeguard your respiratory health. More about iBreeze™BiPAP Machine.
Wellue Checkme™ Pro Doctor Vital Signs Monitor is an all-in-one solution for mobile medical, and also a smart choice for family healthcare & clinical check. It can continuously monitor SPO2 for up to 10 hours and can be used as an ECG Holter. Using it to screen sleep apnea is a nice choice, whether for personal or doctors. Check this following pic and you will get more information.
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You are sleeping and dreaming about unicorns, but do you know that your breath may stop and there may be the lack of oxygen in the blood, and you may be suffering from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Since normally people do not really experience symptoms, just wake up tired and feel sleepy during the day, it is not easy to detect it in its first phase.
Yet at least one in five adults who snore suffer from OSA in the US, usually, sleep apnea patients are surprised when they are diagnosed with this condition. Their airways are temporarily closed, preventing breathing, and they breathe less oxygen. These apneas can happen hundreds of times per night, apnea might even generate hypertension, heart disease, brain attacks or diabetes.
The SleepU sleep oxygen monitor is designed for snorers and people suffering from OSA. It tracks your blood oxygen and heart rate level as well as your body movements. It can tell whether it is worth investigating sleep apnea further with a health professional. This is cost-effective, whereas diagnostic tests require overnight stays at a sleep lab and can cost thousands of dollars. Using SleepU can prevent you from making those unnecessary trips to a sleep lab, or alert you to the fact that you may need to visit them. Its adjustable vibration alert in the patented ring sensor will nudge you to change position to let you breathe more oxygen and sleep better.
The SleepU is USB disk sized and equipped with a ring sensor to track blood oxygen level and heart rate. Unlike other fitness wearables tracking blood oxygen level as part of a more extensive feature, SleepU exists solely to monitor your sleep blood oxygen. It is transmissive oximetry and measures blood oxygen level with medical-grade accuracy, whereas other wearable fitness devices utilize the reflectance pulse oximetry. Usually, hospital use transmissive oximetry, and this is where SleepU sets itself apart from main consumer-oriented sleep tracking devices.
SleepU has a unique design with a vibrator built in its ring sensor rather than main unit, which makes it suitable for whole night sleep. When your blood oxygen level drops below your preset level (e.g. below 90%), the ring sensor will vibrate and stir you to wake up gently, remind you to change your position, helping you to reopen your airway to reduce snoring and breathe more oxygen.
If you are reluctant to wear a ring on your finger in bed because you consider it will disturb your sleep, I have to tell you that the SleepU sleep oxygen monitor is soft and comfortable to wear on. Since other devices usually cover your whole finger, oppressing your finger, making it numb and sweaty, and are easy to fall off from your finger, SleepU feels like wearing nothing.
The silent vibration instead of audible beeping doesn’t disturb your partner. You can adjust vibration intensity and threshold in App to fit you best. So the smart vibration function is useful for everyone, but it is especially useful for people who snore and those who have to live with sleep apnea, as well as their partners who sleep with them.
SleepU tracks SpO2 and heart rate overnight, it helps you to see whether the CPAP machine or oxygenator is effective and provides more info for therapy.
Simply wear it on your wrist overnight, no need to press a button, it records O2 saturation and heart rate automatically. No need to connect with your phone as it works even when not connected: 4 sessions will be stored in the device while the data will sync once it is connected. Absolutely, you can also connect SleepU with your smartphone or tablet while using, to watch your real-time SpO2 and heart rate.
Next morning, you wake up, take off the device and enter the ViHealth APP to view the detailed report. You will see your overnight blood oxygen level, how many times your oxygen drops, how long your oxygen is below 90%, heart rate, body movement and O2 score. O2 score is an easy and simple index to tell if your SpO2 is healthy while sleeping. It is calculated based on the drop time and how severe it drops, the higher the better. You can also log notes to record your comments, such as lifestyle or therapy. Or share overnight oximetry data and trends with doctors or friends for advice.
With the included cable, you can connect the device to your PC or laptop, upload your overnight oximetry data to the PC software, export sleep report, save it as PDF or CSV format, share unlimited reports to your doctor or friends, and it is totally free!
SleepU is USB rechargeable, working up to two nights on one charge. It can not work for a week like other fitness or sleep tracker, as the ring sensor continuously tracks your overnight oxygen saturation every second, that’s to say it will not ignore your blood oxygen event per second. As we know, their founders have over ten years of experience in medical device R&D.
If you suffer from snoring or sleep apnea, and you are tired of others constantly reminding you of it and giving you silly pieces of advice on how to deal with it, you should certainly consider trying the SleepU sleep oxygen monitor. As the device is certainly the most convenient tracker for measuring SpO2 during sleep.
Source: gadgets-reviews.com
It's not staying up late after chasing a game, it's not eating too much before going to bed, it's snoring.
According to the world health organization, 27 percent of people around the world suffer from sleep problems, that is, at least one in every four people. For snorers, "snoring like thunder" does not mean sleeping soundly. Research shows that snoring at night and sleepiness during the day can greatly increase the risk of three highs, heart disease, and brain damage. Snoring is a common sleep phenomenon, which most guys think it is nothing weird. In fact, snoring is an important factor affecting sleep health. Sleep apnea means repeatedly suspended snoring, resulting in severe hypoxia of brain and blood, which could induce hypertension, cerebral heart disease, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, and angina pectoris. It should be noted that sudden death occurs when the duration of apnea exceeds 120 seconds.
The danger of snoring
1)Face aging for female
Long-term snoring causes obstruction of air and blood flow, resulting in facial skin relaxation, bad breath, irregular menstruation, easy aging, and other symptoms. Looking older than the woman really is.
2)Mental weakness for female
A woman who snores could make people close to her disgust and affect her wife-husband's life. Female with heavy mental stress, excessive night snoring stress may lead to mental weakness during daytime work.
3)Unhealthy lifestyle for male
Unhealthy habits such as alcoholism and smoking can also cause sleep apnea. Snoring causes blood hypoxia in the body, which affects multiple organs throughout the body. Insufficient blood oxygen in male sexual organs can lead to "hypoxia" of this organ, thus affecting the normal life of couples.
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I am comfortable that Cleveland Clinic, a world-renown medical center, accurately collected and interpreted the results of the data gathered on the night of my sleep study, and made their recommendations in a manner consistent with accepted medical practice. That said, I worried that they based that diagnosis on data from one night. Are all of my nights the same? What does a good night look like? What does a bad night look like? What is the ratio of good nights to bad nights?
The Cleveland Clinic Sleep Disorder Guide provides a list of alternative treatments for milder cases of sleep apnea. The Wellue O2Ring provides ongoing measurement of their effectiveness, i.e. biofeedback.
I usually have goods nights now. Nasacort clearly helps me. My physician told me it was OK to use it as directed every night before bed. Nothing I have seen so far tells me I need a CPAP machine, but my personal sleep study continues. After a long string of good nights, as demonstrated by my Scores, I had a couple of not so good nights. The good news is, I learned from the experience, and I have documented hard facts to share with my physician.
One night, I fell asleep on my back partially on the wedge pillow I use for reading in bed. I slept like a stone for 10 hours. I was very tired from lack of sleep the previous night followed by working hard the following day. When I awaken, I check the O2Ring charts. One night (left side) I had moderate sleep APNEA and multiple alarms. My alarm activates at the default 88%. My lowest SPO2 was 85%. I have yet to see it lower. Not good. But not terrible.
You might think this rare event invalidates the rest of my story. I disagree. The O2Ring is a biofeedback device that lets you know when improvements are indicated and motivating improvements in the remediation effort.
The alarm thresholds are a setting. I use the defaults for now. My SPO2 alarm activates at 88%. I usually sleep through the alarms. Nonetheless, I can see in the extract file that my SPO2 levels typically return to normal within 12-16 seconds of the alarm.
If I ever get to the point where I am not getting a good night’s sleep because of alarms, or my Scores are frequently below the minimum my physician recommends, I’ll be first in line for a CPAP machine. Based on what I have seen so far, I doubt that will happen anytime soon.
My personal sleep study continues with a goal being the safe personal pursuit of an alternative to CPAP. I’ll use a CPAP if necessary, but I want to avoid it if I can. I have avoided CPAP so far. I also want to be able to share hard facts about my progress with my physician as I proceed. The O2Ring does all of that for me.
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-by Jack, 19.12.2019
The feedback from the O2Ring is showing me that the best way for me to manage my APNEA is to be very consistent about managing my sleep position, i.e. sleep on my side, not my back. I am gathering and using tools to assist me in that endeavour; Compare this chart to the previous charts. I am making progress.”
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Did you know that one in five adults who snore can suffer from obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)? This can cause you to take in less than optimal amounts of oxygen lowering your blood oxygen levels and interrupting your sleep! If you feel tired through your day even though you think you spent for a healthy (7-9 hours a night) amount of time that night, you could be suffering from these sleep interruptions.
Since our nightly sleep cycle circulates from light to deep, REM sleep, interruptions can wake you enough to restart your natural sleep cycle. This leads to not enough REM sleep. The exact number of sleep disturbances is hard to determine without a sleep monitoring device.
The Wellue SleepU is a sleep monitor that you wear overnight to track your oxygen levels and heart rate. SleepU is a highly accurate and FDA registered device listed as a Class II medical device.
Traditional SpO2 sleep sensors have a “Duckbill” design that attached to the tip of your finger. The flaw in this design is that is can easily come off your figure during the night. This type of design also does not allow free movement of your finger.
Ring Sensor: The patented ring sensor design with the SleepU device was designed to prevent it from slipping off your figure and giving your figure fee range of movement.
Wrist/Ring: This sleep monitoring device has two parts. First, there is a part that you wear around your wrist like a watch. The other goes around your thumb like a ring. There is a cord that connects the ring to the bracelet.
Rechargeable Battery: The battery recharges with a USB cable, and it takes 2 to 3 hours to charge.
Continuous SpO2 and HR Monitoring: SleepU will continuously monitor your Oxygen levels and heart rate throughout the night.
Vibration Alerts: You can set vibration alerts to alert you gently enough, so you adjust your sleeping position when it senses that your blood oxygen levels are dropping. The light vibration does not make noise that will wake your partner, and you can adjust the insanity of the vibration.
Built-in Memory: The data will be tracked and stored in the device even without being connected to the App. It can store up to 4 sleep sessions, and all the data will sync to your smartphone once commended to the App. The built-in memory can store four sleep sessions, each lasting up to 10 hours.
Personal Account: You will have your account so you can view your reports on your smartphone or your computer. You can also take notes to record any comments and lifestyle choices that might have affected your sleep.
Android/ iOS: This App is compatible with iSO 9.0 and above and Android 5.0 and above.
App and Desktop Reports: You can view the data that the SleepU sleep monitor collects through the night on the mobile App or your computer. The report will give you a visual insight into your blood oxygen and heart rate trends. You will be able to view different sleep analysis like the time, amount, and intensity of oxygen level drops.
Share: You can download the reports in a PDF and CSV format. However, the O2 Insight PC software currently only works with Windows software. It is not presently comparable with Mac. You can share the reports with your family or doctor.
You can buy the SleepU device directly from the Wellue website. The original retail price for this device is $199.99, but occasionally they have been known to get discounted to $189.99.
Unboxing and Whats’s Included:
SleepU is a highly accurate blood oxygen saturation monitor that is FDA registered. This device has an average of 4.5 out of 5-star rating on Amazon at the time of this review.
Here are a few highlights from the customers that have used and reviewed SleepU:
Great to use with CPAP and to see how effective the CPAP was in helpinge Wellue SleepU device is an excellent choice for an FDA registered sleep monitoring device that will give you highly accurate reporting. The overall quality, design, and features are very impressive. The free App and PC reporting software make SleepU an excellent choice!
Features: SleepU will record your blood oxygen saturation levels, heart rate, and motion continuously throughout the night. You can adjust the level of vibration to generally alert you to shift sleeping positions if your SpO2 levels are dropping.
App: The app ViHealth iOS and Android App is free. You can share your data, take notes, and even watch your recordings change in real time. The PC software allows you to export data and sleep reports in PDF or CSV formats.
Design: The ring sensor material is soft silicone that is comfortable to wear and will not slip off your finger during the night. The rechargeable sleep monitor can store data for four sleep sessions lasting 10 hours each before syncing the data to the App.
Value: SleepU is a high-quality Class II medical device that is FDA registered. Other similar devices are around the same price range as SleepU. However, SleepU has an overall better design, is more computable to wear, and a better value. As an added bonus, you can get a 10% discount with the coupon code: FITNESSJUNKIE
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