Treatment of Sleep Apnea
Snoring often is a symptom of obstructive sleep apnea, following are more detail on the treatment of sleep apnea.
First of all, you need to realize that snoring is not just a sound phenomenon, which prevents sleep around, but a reflection of the pathological processes occurring in the body. At the same time, snoring is a risk factor for such terrible diseases and conditions like hypertension (arterial giperotniya), various cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, sudden death, obesity, diabetes, depression.
Snoring is one of the types of disorders of breathing during sleep, and often is only a symptom of a much more dangerous condition – obstructive sleep apnea (sleep apnea).
If:
- You are told that you snore loudly and periodically stop breathing during sleep
- You have a restless, with frequent waking dream
- In the morning you feel overwhelmed, tired, hardly awake
- During the day marked a painful drowsiness, frequent headaches upon awakening
- You are scattered, are irritable, can not concentrate on work
- Concerned about hypertension, especially in the night and morning hours
- Progressively increasing body weight
- Have problems in sexual life
Then you might have obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. This condition frequently occurs in chronically snoring people and is manifested by periodic cessation of breathing during sleep. Sometimes it can be observed up to 400-500 pauses in breathing per night total of up to 3-4 hours. This leads to a permanent lack of oxygen in the night period, and significantly increases the risk of serious cardiac arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, stroke and sudden death during sleep.
Chronic sleep disturbances lead to impotence, memory loss, etc.
The main adverse consequence of obstructive sleep apnea (sleep apnea) is a dramatic disruption of sleep structure. For a man, not snoring, just to be in “skin” snorer. To do this, you need to just … do not sleep one night. Feeling of weakness, fatigue, drowsiness, confusion “of consciousness, heaviness in the head, here’s a typical day state Khrapunov and patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (apnea sleepy).
Diagnosis of the disease by means of polysomnography – a method of prolonged recording of various physiological functions during sleep, which allows accurate diagnosis of the disease and assess its severity, from which depends largely on the tactics of treatment.
We hope that we have been able to draw your attention to the disease stops breathing during sleep. If you notice any symptoms of trouble, do not postpone a visit to a sleep doctor. The disease is progressive and can lead to serious complications. However, during the prescribed treatment can in most cases to prevent unwanted effects and significantly improve your quality of life.
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