British Sleep Society Conference - Birmingham 2019

We attended the British Sleep Society's 3-day Conference this year in Birmingham, both to promote the charity to sleep clinicians and attend the various workshops to educate ourselves and learn about current research.  It was lovely also to speak to sleep clinicians who had flown in from around the world too and one particular conversation we had with a researcher from Russia was interesting, and sad, as she told us there's hardly any awareness and support out there, yet the latest statistics are that 40 million Russians have obstructive sleep apnoea which is even worse than the UK where there are 8 million, and mostly undiagnosed http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/2018/09/new-estimate-number-people-europe-obstructive-sleep-apnea/ 

It was also lovely to meet Dr Jed Black from the Stanford Sleep Clinic, who was over from California, and even brought us a supply of the SleepSeal samples which he's developed to help encourage mouth breathing to people using CPAP.  Many people have already tried these SleepSeals and are looking forward to them being available for sale in the UK (hopefully around February 2020) and some people have told us that when they're available they'll be able to convert to a nasal mask instead of their current full face one.