Treating Sleep Apnea With Airway Pressure
Sleep apnea is a chronic sleeping disorder, common in adults but rare in children. It is characterised by pauses (apneas) or shallow breathing during periods of sleep. Apneas can occur at least 15 times and up to 30 times or more each hour. The disorder is much more prevalent while sleeping rather than when awake, [...]
Three Types of Sleep Apnea Part 2
Central Sleep Apnea: Common in both premature infants and adults with cerebrovascular or heart disease, this type of Sleep apnea is caused by the sleeper’s brain not signalling the body to breathe. Both premature infants and adults with heart disease will have higher levels of carbon dioxide in the blood, causing the brain to slow [...]
Three Types of Sleep Apnea Part 1
Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep disorder, characterised by pauses, or apneas, in a sleeper’s breathing. These pauses occur at least 15 times an hour, and can occur more than 30 times an hour. Often a person may be unaware that they suffer from the condition; symptoms are much more likely to reported by family [...]
Sleep Apnea, Home Remedies
Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep disorder, which causes pauses (apneas) or a much more shallow level in a sleeper’s breathing. Apneas occur at least 15 times an hour, and can occur up to 30 times or more each hour. The disorder is much more prevalent while sleeping, meaning that often a person may not [...]
Sleep Apnea in Brief
Sleep apnea is a chronic sleep disorder characterised by pauses in breathing, or a reduction to shallow breathing, while sleeping. These pauses, or episodes, are known as apneas can last for only a few seconds or for minutes at a time. An apnea is defined as the person stopping breathing for over 10 seconds, or [...]
Sleep Apnea – A Picture of the Symptoms
Sleep apnea, a chronic sleeping disorder common in adults, is often unnoticed by an individual as episodes of the disorder occur most commonly while the individual is sleeping. Instead it is family members or bed partners of the individual who tend to discover the disorder. Symptoms and warning signs of Sleep apnea include:
Silences of breathing [...]
Other Sleeping Disorders and Red Herrings Part Two
Sleep Paralysis – Sleep paralysis is an unusual phenomenon in which an individual wakes half way through their sleep unable to move with a ‘sense of dread’ and unable to move. This is caused by the paralysis that the body engages during dreams to prevent us from acting out our dreams failing to end upon [...]
Other Sleeping Disorders and Red Herrings Part One
Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder that causes the patient to stop breathing during the night. This then disrupts the sleep cycle causing the individual to lose sleep, though often they are unaware that they have woken at all during the night. With this being the case, the only observable symptom for the sufferer themselves [...]
How Long Can Sleep Apnea Go Untreated Part Two
This can also lead to problems at work, in relationships and finances. More pressingly such lack of attention can cause accidents, particularly when driving; and being tired when driving has also been said to be as serious as being drunk.
Poor sleep has also been linked to obesity, slow healing of wounds and depression; which themselves [...]
How Long Can Sleep Apnea Go Untreated Part One
Sleep apnea is a condition that causes patients to stop breathing during the night. This causes individuals to experience broken sleep and to regularly wake throughout the night, though usually they are not conscious of this fact and simply find themselves feeling tired throughout the day.
As patients don’t necessarily recognise their condition it means that [...]