Except when you are Apple. /s
So the thought that Apple wouldn't have their ducks in a row isn't true. Especially since any feature they release, will be used by millions of people pretty quickly.
Just to be clear, I'm not claiming Apple doesn't give themselves special treatment in the App Store. They absolutely do (as you'd expect). Just pushing back on the notion that they wouldn't have documentation and all their legal stuff taken care of.
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As in, did their refusal say "no because the way you're tracking if the user is on their back is not accurate enough?" or did they say "we don't allow people to write watch apps related to medical diagnoses / treatments / etc?"
A very long time ago, I got the impression that sleeping on your back is healthy, and successfully "trained" myself into the practice… now I'm trying desperately to untrain the habit 9_9
I was told that my sleep apnea didn't rise to the level of a medical condition needing intervention, but I should try to avoid sleeping on my back to help with the problems that do present.
In some cases sleeping on the stomach might be preferred, as that helps the lungs take in more oxygen, which is why patients on respirators are often kept on their stomachs in hospital.
That being said: if you don't have sleep apnea or reflux, any position that's comfortable is probably fine. No one stays in one position the whole night anyway.
I sort of feel my body telling me, my back hurts because I never sleep on my back (because of sleep apnea, or at least horrendous snoring) but when I lay on my back it feels much more comfortable, but can't sleep that way because I will wake up the house.
Try a body pillow. Having something to wrap your arms & legs around and keep your spine aligned counteracts at least some of the discomforts of sleeping on your side.
whats wrong with right side?
The short answer is that your organs are mostly asymmetric and the esophagus connects to the stomach on the right so by laying on your right your stomach acid flows to the sphincter connecting your stomach and esophagus, making it easier to leak into the esophagus. This is especially a problem with GERD because you don't have pain receptors on that end of your esophagus but the stomach acid can still damage its tissue, which can lead to further complications including cancer.
A common cause of acid reflux is a herniated diaphragm (hiatal hernia) in which part of the stomach slips through the diaphragm into the upper chest. In this the esophageal sphincter will not be the highest point of your stomach, further adding to the problem when sleeping on your right side. Imagine a plastic water bottle deformed in such a way it stands slanted with the opening to the right, now imagine laying it on that side or the other. Laying it on the side with the opening makes it more likely to spill if the lid isn't forming a perfect seal.
The opposite is RAO (right side down on belly oblique), when we want to show the opposite esophageal emptying into the stomach.
But any one position is probably not good to maintain for a long time. That’s why patients on respirators get turned so they don’t develop pressure ulcers.
Personally I have found 15-20 minutes prone (on my belly) is helpful reducing fatigue after intense exercise.
Yeah, since COVID-19, and even then, only for patients who are severely hypoxic (ARDS or severe respiratory failure). That said, it is not universally applied to all ventilated patients, and in many countries it is not even practiced at all.
Yeah, that would work!
My parents never thought I needed a diagnosis, but when I was just a few years old I got pneumonia from a bad cough and was prone to chest infections all my life afterwards. It was after I had whooping cough that my dad came in to check on me, and he noticed that I "wasn't breathing" (which he told to mum in a typically 'Irish Farmer'). She thought he was telling her that I was, in fact, dead and to my bedroom in a panic. Turns out she had previously noticed that I "didn't breathe". Basically, I'd appear to stop breathing entirely for very long periods of time. I think that the air would be very slowly leaking out for about a minute, and I'd be making a low whine noise. Then I'd take in a huge breath... and the low whine would begin again. I wasn't overweight, I was actually as thin as a rake, and my mother nicknamed me "Boney M" (which might show my age).
It was when I met my wife, back in the late 90s, that it became a "problem". She'd tell me I was making a terrible noise in my sleep, and I said "oh yeah, I do that". Every time my weird breathing woke her up, she treated it as if I were snoring: elbow me and say "YOU'RE DOING IT AGAIN". And I'd kinda wake up and then focus on breathing properly as a fell back asleep. I also took up running around that time.
After a few years the weird breathing (which, I now think, was asleep apnea) stopped. I had better sleep and woke refreshed, whereas all through my childhood, walking up and getting out of bed was a gargantuan effort. I could sleep till noon and still be foggy.
Anyway, aside from losing weight and doing cardio, maybe a watch that activated an elbow would be an idea?
Incidentally, another thing I trained myself to do was sleep with my mouth closed. I used to wake up extremely dry and absolutely need a pint of water beside the bed. I read once about surviving in the desert: keep your mouth shut too conserve moisture. So I'd intentionally keep my n mouth closed and breathe only through my nose. That worked too - except when I have a head cold, but I take antihistamines before bed to avoid blocked sinuses.
Apple isn't liable for you looking up medical misinformation that kills you using your iPhone on the Safari browser. Why would it be for an app that is clearly made by someone else? The difference is only because of the vetting, and they only do vetting to charge their fee, otherwise they'd vet other things too.
It's incredible how companies bend backwards to bullet proof any liability whatsoever on anything, except if they can make money on it.
They also vet apps to keep garbage and scams out of it.
Many of the things they prohibit are things that are overwhelmingly good for their users:
It seems less likely to me that this is Apple being ruthless or pigheaded and more than you really do have to be careful how you market your iPhone apps.
I take your point; the FDA doesn't recognize "snoring" as a medical condition (but OSA is!)