Sleep Apnea: causes, symtoms, treatment and cure

• What is sleep apnea and why do people suffer from sleep apnea?
• What are the effects of sleep apnea?
• Is there any possible treatment of sleep apnea?

Sleep Apnea is one of the common disorder in which people suffers from one or more pauses in the breathing and shallow breaths while they are in sleep. It is serious sleep disorders in which the person’s breathe are interrupted during sleep. Those people who have untreated Sleep Apnea stop breathing repeatedly while they are in sleep, sometimes this happens for more than hundred times.

Basically people suffer from two type of Sleep Apnea they are discussed below:

• Obstructive Sleep apnea (OSA): This is most common in the two forms of apnea; this is generally caused by a blockage of the air, usually when the soft tissue that is present in the back of the throat collapses during the sleep.
• Central Sleep Apnea: This is unlike OSA apnea, in this the airway is not blocked but in this the brain fails to provide signal the muscles to breathe due to the instability in the respiratory control center.

Sleep Apnea can affect anyone at any age; this generally happens to the male gender, one who is overweight, who are over the age of forty, one who have larger tonsils, having a family history of sleep apnea. If it is left untreated then it can result a growing number of health problem, such as Hypertension, Stroke, Heart failure, irregular heartbeats and even heart attacks. Not only is this but the untreated sleep apnea becomes responsible for poor performance in the everyday activities like while you are at school, home, motor vehicle crashes and poor academic performance in the children and adolescents.

Treatment of Sleep Apnea is possible with the conservative measures such as losing weight if you are overweight, avoiding alcohol and sleeping pills, by changing sleeping position for regular breathing, You will have to stop smoking: as such smoking causes swelling in the upper airway that can cause effect to both snoring and apnea, and avoid sleeping on your back. If the problem is very serious then the treatment may result in the surgery for Sleep Apnea. Generally surgery becomes necessary who have a deviated nasal septum, enlarged tonsils, small lower jaw with the overbite that causes the throat to be abnormally narrow then in all these cases surgery may be need to correct sleep apnea.