IF you’re plagued by a partner’s incessant snoring, science might be your saviour. While most socks are designed to keep your feet warm, experts have said one design could banish snorin…
This one looked at 12 patients in France who had sleep apnoea with chronic venous insufficiency.Normally, valves in your veins make the blood flow toward your heart, but when they don't work properly, the blood can also flow backwards, causing the blood to pool in your legs.
Participants had a 36 per cent reduction in sleep apnoea per hour when they wore the socks compared to when they didn't. The experts said: "Compression stockings reduced daytime fluid accumulation in the legs, which in turn reduced the amount of fluid flowing into the neck at night."on 22 patients in the US, found that wearing the socks at night could also help.
Patients who wore them in the day for two weeks said their symptoms of sleep apnoea decrease by 27 per cent, Dr T Douglas Bradley and colleagues report in Sleep Medicine.For this reason, guidance states it might be useful for you to ask someone to stay with you while you sleep so they can check for some of the below symptoms.making gasping, snorting or choking noisesDuring the day you may also feel very tired, find it hard to concentrate, have mood swings and have a headache when you wake up.
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