Sleep Apnea - A Sleeping Disorder That Shouldn"t Be Ignored
I am sure that almost everyone in America has had a friend or relative that suffers from sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a condition where a person that is sleeping experiences pauses in breath.
This isn't something that should be taken lightly by the individual going through it or their friends and family to have to see them go through because it's a condition that can worsen over time and as the person gets older in age.
These pauses in breath can last anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds and the person can have as many as 300 to 400 of these episodes, so as you can see this is something that should be looked after early in life.
This disorder affects between 13 million and 19 million people in America and each case varies to a certain degree going from mild sleep apnea all the way to the other degree of the spectrum to severe sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is something that is relatively new to the medical community and there is still a lot of research team down as I speak.
The one thing that almost half of the people that suffer from sleep apnea have in common is that they store very loudly.
Now if this problem isn't dealt with in a short amount of time it can also cause many long-term health problems such as hypertension, high blood pressure and even stroke so you see there are many cardiovascular problems that can sneak into that person if they don't take care of this problem correctly.
Sleep apnea treatments Thanks to the advances in modern medicine there are some good treatments for sleep apnea and this started in 1981 in Sydney Australia when Prof.
Sullivan first developed a device called the CPAP.
The CPAP or continuous positive airway pressure is a device that is now widely used by many sleep apnea patients across America and around the world.
Sleep apnea occurs when a person's airway becomes small or narrow during sleep.
The CPAP device prevents this from happening by delivering compressed air through the nose opening up the airways.
A great added benefit of the CPAP device is that most of the times it stops snoring from happening.
I have a brother that snores a lot during the night and I am wondering if he might also have sleep apnea.
If so then maybe the CPAP device will bring him relief and also allow me to sleep well at night as I don't have to hear the snoring anymore.
There are other options that you can have that could also bring some comfort to a person that suffers from sleep apnea such as a humidifier which can add moisture to the air that this person is breathing at night.
Most CPAP machines often come with a humidifier integrated into the unit.
Remember that you cannot get a CPAP machine without a prescription from your doctor.
Most CPAP devices are covered by the majority of insurances but make sure that your insurance does cover this before you decide to get one.
Also make sure that the extra bells and whistles that can come with some of the CPAP machines are also covered by insurance because many insurance companies will make you pay extra for these.
Also cpap machines are very sophisticated devices and some of them even keep track of stuff such as oxygen levels in your breathing pattern.
Sleep apnea is a condition where a person that is sleeping experiences pauses in breath.
This isn't something that should be taken lightly by the individual going through it or their friends and family to have to see them go through because it's a condition that can worsen over time and as the person gets older in age.
These pauses in breath can last anywhere from 15 to 30 seconds and the person can have as many as 300 to 400 of these episodes, so as you can see this is something that should be looked after early in life.
This disorder affects between 13 million and 19 million people in America and each case varies to a certain degree going from mild sleep apnea all the way to the other degree of the spectrum to severe sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is something that is relatively new to the medical community and there is still a lot of research team down as I speak.
The one thing that almost half of the people that suffer from sleep apnea have in common is that they store very loudly.
Now if this problem isn't dealt with in a short amount of time it can also cause many long-term health problems such as hypertension, high blood pressure and even stroke so you see there are many cardiovascular problems that can sneak into that person if they don't take care of this problem correctly.
Sleep apnea treatments Thanks to the advances in modern medicine there are some good treatments for sleep apnea and this started in 1981 in Sydney Australia when Prof.
Sullivan first developed a device called the CPAP.
The CPAP or continuous positive airway pressure is a device that is now widely used by many sleep apnea patients across America and around the world.
Sleep apnea occurs when a person's airway becomes small or narrow during sleep.
The CPAP device prevents this from happening by delivering compressed air through the nose opening up the airways.
A great added benefit of the CPAP device is that most of the times it stops snoring from happening.
I have a brother that snores a lot during the night and I am wondering if he might also have sleep apnea.
If so then maybe the CPAP device will bring him relief and also allow me to sleep well at night as I don't have to hear the snoring anymore.
There are other options that you can have that could also bring some comfort to a person that suffers from sleep apnea such as a humidifier which can add moisture to the air that this person is breathing at night.
Most CPAP machines often come with a humidifier integrated into the unit.
Remember that you cannot get a CPAP machine without a prescription from your doctor.
Most CPAP devices are covered by the majority of insurances but make sure that your insurance does cover this before you decide to get one.
Also make sure that the extra bells and whistles that can come with some of the CPAP machines are also covered by insurance because many insurance companies will make you pay extra for these.
Also cpap machines are very sophisticated devices and some of them even keep track of stuff such as oxygen levels in your breathing pattern.
