Banana helps Sleep Apnea Patients (keyboard damage alert)

[Babette]

Astroglide and Banana smoothie, anyone?
B.

[Catnap]

Please, I beg of you, this needs a snort warning! (Mopping up monitor and keyboard...)

[Babette]

DSM, maybe you need to change the subject line to include "SNORT WARNING".

LOL,
B.

[Sleeprider]

Well...

[dsm]

DSM, maybe you need to change the subject line to include "SNORT WARNING".

LOL,
B.

Went for the polite option

DSM

[Catnap]

DSM, maybe you need to change the subject line to include "SNORT WARNING".

LOL,
B.

Went for the polite option

DSM

And it is appreciated! Thank you!

[Babette]

LUV IT!!!
B.

[kteague]

I grew up on down-home (not down under) southern country cooking. For those not from the USA, that includes stick-to-your-ribs foods popular in the Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee region. Anything fried from an animal or grown in a garden, accompanied by lots of gravy and bisquits or cornbread. All we did with bananas was make banana pudding.

Strangest thing I ate as a child was a sandwich on white bread with fried fish, mustard, bologna, and thick slices of raw onion. That was only because we had to eat whatever Mom cooked, and I hated fish then, so I concocted this combination to help me get it down. Two generations later I still sometimes crave one of those sandwiches.

I've become more of an adventurous eater as an adult. Still have a few things I reserve the right to refuse to even try to eat, but I'm willing to try most things, and usually find out I like them.

But this particular day is worthy of noting on the calendar, for on this day I have both eaten and enjoyed a bacon wrapped banana!

[Babette]

MY ENVY KNOWS NO BOUNDS!!!!!

Kathy.... was it good? Was it crispy, and yet mooshy?

LOL,
B.

[kteague]

Babette,
Yes, yes, and yes.
Kathy

[-SWS]

So am I understanding this correctly? The phospholipids provide a 4 to 6 hour lubricant that prevents the throat tissues from making an air tight seal and thus prevent apnea?

More on that:
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/conte ... 157/5/1522 . . .

Which may help explain why mouth leak can do such a number on AHI. Dry sticky throat and tongue, not a good thing.

Great point.

As it turns out, there's plenty of similar research discussing apnea in relation to upper-airway surface tension and surfactants:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en ... tnG=Search
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en ... tnG=Search

The anti-snore sprays may even help reduce AI in some cases--as they are surfactants that are suitable for the upper airway. They better have banana flavored surfactants or the whole thing's a bust IMO...

[dsm]

I grew up on down-home (not down under) southern country cooking. For those not from the USA, that includes stick-to-your-ribs foods popular in the Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee region. Anything fried from an animal or grown in a garden, accompanied by lots of gravy and bisquits or cornbread. All we did with bananas was make banana pudding.

Strangest thing I ate as a child was a sandwich on white bread with fried fish, mustard, bologna, and thick slices of raw onion. That was only because we had to eat whatever Mom cooked, and I hated fish then, so I concocted this combination to help me get it down. Two generations later I still sometimes crave one of those sandwiches.

I've become more of an adventurous eater as an adult. Still have a few things I reserve the right to refuse to even try to eat, but I'm willing to try most things, and usually find out I like them.

But this particular day is worthy of noting on the calendar, for on this day I have both eaten and enjoyed a bacon wrapped banana!

Kathy

Glad to see you gave it a go - as promised, worth the effort & the flavor

DSM.


PS Re southern style food, we did have an asignee from Austin Texas in a project I was running for Big Blue many years ago. This Texan's wife introduced us to the delights of 'Chicken Fried Steaks'. She also would bring with her, to any BBQ we had, an extra large bottle of Tomato Ketchup. Her husband liked his hamburgers to accompany his plate of ketchup (big as they were (his wife would take the meat pattys we prepared & flatten them to twice their original size) ) . He could clean up half a bottle of that sauce at one BBQ. -- (I looked up CFS to see what I could find about it - seems it came from Texas & is the official state meal of nextdoor Oakie-lahoma )

D

[TSSleepy]

I've had fried bacon-wrapped dates as appetizers. (yum)
And I have had fried plantains and calamari at a cuban restaurant. (yum)

But I have never had a bacon-wrapped banana, and now I'm not sure my life will be complete until I've tried one!

When I first saw this post, the response that came to mind was Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, "Look, man, I ain't fallin' for no banana in my tailpipe!"

[kopoloff]

I think I'd prefer OSA, CPAP, XPAP, gas, bloating, dry throat, mouth breathing, rainout, leaking, lip flutter . . . . . . . . to even thinking of eating bananas.

K

[Babette]

How about fried bacon-wrapped plantains? I only mention it because an ex BF with a Cuban connection always promised me fried plantains, but never delivered.

Now you know why he's known in my household as the "Ex Moron". Stupid man. The way to my heart is through my stomach.

LOL,
B.