So we know what sleep apnea is, does this Lookee Ring Sleep Monitor actually detect sleep apnea? Well, a sign of a sleep apnea occurring or when you stop breathing is your blood oxygen becomes desaturated. By bringing this tiny ring monitor, I can at least mitigate some of my sleep apneas for a better night’s sleep. Sometimes when I travel, I don’t want to carry the CPAP equipment because it’s heavy, large and cumbersome to get through airport security. I think this feature is so useful when I don’t have my CPAP gear with me. You can set the threshold at which the device will wake you up. In effect, this sleep monitor can help you adjust your sleep patterns by gently reminding you to sleep on your side when you are experience an apnea.
The jacket has balls on the back to help prevent the patient from sleep on their back. In fact, some doctors prescribe patients with moderate to low sleep apnea a special jacket that the patient wears during sleep. Sleeping on your side helps prevent sleep an apnea (stop breathing) from happening. Sometimes the throat muscles become too relaxed and block your airway when sleeping on your back. If they have a large throat or tonsils, or their pillow puts their head a poor position, or they’re overweight, or they’ve been drinking, the throat is more likely to close up. Let me explain: Sleep apnea is more likely to happen when the patient is lying on their back. This feature is very innovative and Lookee has a done a great job adding value to this sleep monitor. If you drop below a certain blood oxygen percentage, you’ll receive gentle vibration indicating you to take some action. I think this feature is what sets this apart from all the other sleep trackers. Then onto settings, here you can configure one of the most important features this device offers. So for example, on a night you didn’t use your CPAP therapy and you can annotate the sleep session and keep track your data and historical logs.Īlong on the tabs, you’ll see a dashboard which gives you real time information of your SpO2 and heart rate. A really cool feature is that you can export or share your results or add notes. Above the graph is a summary of stats such as recording time and average SpO2. There, you’ll see blood oxygen percentage, heart rate and motion.
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Their app keeps a full history of all your sleep sessions and you can view a detailed report for each session. SoftwareĪs was pairing and syncing data was simple, so is using their software. Overall, using the hardware is dead simple and pairing has been easy.
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To sync data to your phone, turn on the device, make sure your bluetooth is enabled on your phone, and then simply sync.
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When you wake up, you can pair it with your phone using their free app ViHealth. If you take off the device, it gives you 10 seconds to determine if you want to end your sleep session. To use the device, simply turn it on by pressing the power button and put it on any finger. Using the device and pairing it via Bluetooth with your phone with their free app was a painless process. If diagnosed with sleep apnea, doctors treat this by prescribing CPAP therapy which is basically a machine that constantly pumps air into your mouth so that your throat airway remains unobstructed during sleep. You can have moderate sleep apnea and still function well during the day. Symptoms of sleep apnea may include gasping/choking for air, feeling tired in the morning, or your partner hearing you snore while asleep. The more times you stop breather per hour, which is referred to as AHI, the worst your sleep apnea is. So what is sleep apnea? Do you have it? In simple non-medical terms, sleep apnea is a condition where you stop breathing while your asleep. So I searched on Amazon for a dedicated sleep tracker, and I found the Lookee Ring Sleep Monitor which can track your entire sleep duration including heart rate, motion, and most importantly your overnight blood oxygen saturation, which is quite impressive. The Fitbit Charge 3 did have the hardware to track your oxygen saturation but Fitbit never enabled the feature and a lot of users were infuriated. However, it was severely limited in that it could only track four hours during sleep. The Vivosmart 4 was the only fitness tracker that had a working blood oxygen monitor dubbed “Pulse Ox” that would track my blood oxygen saturation or SpO2 during sleep. Overall, I’ve been disappointed with their sleep tracking features. So you may have seen on my channel that I’ve reviewed quite a few smartwatches and fitness trackers. SpO2 stands for peripheral capillary oxygen saturation, an estimate of the amount of oxygen in the blood.
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