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 [...]
Homeopathic Remedies for Apnea
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine which works differently to modern medicine. The central concept behind homeopathic remedies is that a remedy should cause the symptoms observed in the patient were the patient healthy. This then is supposed to help encourage the body to drive out these symptoms. For sleep apnea then the medication [...]
Diagnosing Your Sleep Apnea Part Two
Sleep apnea can for example be quite dangerous in morbidly obese patients who should seek intervention, probably in the form of CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure). Those suffering from deformaties of the skull or a deviated septum will probably have only a mild form (unless this is the result of an injury). In such cases [...]
Diagnosing Your Sleep Apnea Part One
Acknowledging that you are suffering from sleep apnea can be difficult as patients are often unaware that they are waking up in the night, only noticing the tiredness that comes as a result. Once that’s done however, it’s important to realise that there are different forms and severities of apnea.
Sleep apnea comes in three forms, [...]
Complex Apnea
Complex apnea is another term for ‘mixed’ apnea, which describes apnea which is caused by a combination of the two main forms. These forms are ‘obstructive apnea’ – apnea caused by physical blockages in the airways; and ‘central apnea’ – apnea caused by malfunction in the brain that means it ‘forgets’ to breath and doesn’t [...]
Clear Airway Apnea
In obstructive sleep apnea it is a blockage in the airways that causes the patient to stop breathing throughout the night. For such cases then the apnea can be combated by ensuring that the airways remain clear throughout the night of mucus and from the neck itself collapsing around the trachea.
There are several ways to [...]
Best Head Angle for Sleep Apnea
Not all cases of sleep apnea can benefit from changing position, however in obstructive cases this can be an effective way to improve the condition. By changing the angle of the head while sleeping it’s possible to stretch and relax the muscles in the neck and open up the trachea more. This in turn can [...]
Apnea Positions
Obstructive sleep apnea describes apnea caused by blockages of the throat and/or nasal passage as opposed to central sleep apnea caused by brain malfunction that leads the patient simple to ‘forget’ to breath). Obstructive sleep apnea accounts for the majority of cases of apnea and means that most instances of the condition can be alleviated [...]
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