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Health news
Snoring can cause problems
A jew simple changes in
nighttime habits can help
snorers kick the habit
and begin sleeping better
By Sarah Skidmore
Oregon Daily Emerald
Snoring is an affliction that
hurts both the snorers and the peo
ple close to them.
While snoring is a seemingly
harmless and noisy nighttime
habit, it can cause serious prob
lems, said Jolene Siemsen, nurse
practitioner at the University Stu
dent Health Center. Snoring can
interrupt sleep patterns to cause
groggi ness and fatigue.
Twenty million Americans
snore nightly, according to the Co
lumbia University Health Educa
tion Program. Snoring is produced
by vibrations of the soft palate in
the mouth and is caused by multi
ple conditions that interfere with a
normal breathing pattern.
Colds, allergies, really dry air,
swelling of the nasal passages, in
juries to the nose that cause a
break in the nasal path or tonsil
enlargements from infections are
all possible causes for snoring,
Siemsen said. Snoring is most
common while sleeping on your
back.
Columbia University recom
mends a number of options to
help snorers with their situation:
To discourage sleeping on your
back, try sewing a tennis ball to
your pajamas near the small of
your back. To prevent muscle re
laxation in the mouth and throat,
do not drink alcohol, take sleeping
pills, antihistamines or tranquiliz
ers before bed. To prevent a dry
throat, add humidity to your
room. To align your airway, use
extra pillows. To reduce a build
up of mucus, do not eat dairy
products before bedtime. You can
also try taking a couple spoonfuls
of honey daily for a few weeks.
Ask a roommate or bedmate to
turn you on your side when you
begin to snore.
Siemsen recommends a profes
sional medical evaluation if a stu
dent is not having restful sleep, if
their snoring is getting progres
sively worse or there are periods
when they cease breathing during
sleep.
Sleep apnea is a condition
which causes a person to cease
breathing for short periods during
sleep. This condition is most com
mon in obese, middle-aged men
with hypertension and is not a pri
mary concern for students, Siem
sen said.
MRI scans may help predict strokes
Daniel Q. Haney
The Associated Press
DALLAS — MRI scans are
helping doctors predict whether
plaque, the fatty gunk that clogs
the arteries, is likely to break open
and trigger a heart attack or stroke.
Doctors have long known that
heart attacks and strokes typically
occur when a lump of plaque on
an artery walls bursts. In a mis
guided attempt at repair, the body
forms a clot over the plaque that
chokes off the blood supply com
pletely.
Researchers have been delving
into what makes some plaque
harmless while other bits are prone
to breaking. Now, they are taking
steps toward technology that will
let them peek inside the plaque to
reveal whether it is vulnerable to
disaster.
At Sunday’s opening of the an
nual scientific meeting of the
American Heart Association, doc
tors described two new uses of
magnetic resonance imaging
scans that may at last allow them
to distinguish benign plaque from
the dangerous.
“Many of us think that the most
significant clinical advance in the
next five to 10 years will be the
noninvasive imaging of plaque,”
commented Dr. Jan Breslow of
Rockefeller University.
The noninvasive technique in
volves souping up an ordinary
MRI machine to snap super-fast
cross-sectional pictures of the
beating heart.
Ordinarily, doctors make im
ages of the blood vessels using ul
trasound or X-rays that tell them
whether they are narrow. But this
offers no clue to what the block
ages are made of. The MRI pic
tures reveal the composition of
plaque, which is key to predicting
whether it is likely to break.
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