Saterdag 11 Mei 2013

Sleep Apnea The Deadly Disease Hidden

Sleep apnea is one of the diseases associated with the sleep. People with sleep apnea will experience a phase where the rhythm of his breathing will decrease drastically or even stop completely for a time, each person varies in general between 10 seconds to 2 minutes, but sometimes can take longer. One of the most dangerous of sleep apnea is the fact that this disease generally does not realize that he was ill. The disease is also believed to be the trigger of other diseases such as hypertension, heart attack and stroke.

In general, sleep apnea itself is divided into three types: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), Central Sleep Apnea (CSA) and the combined type. In patients with OSA causes respiratory system disruption is due to anatomical factors such as obesity, the problems of the throat or a variety of other causes. CSA cause disruption on the respiratory system is more due to interference with the performance of the brain so that the brain can not properly send signals to the lungs and makes the lungs do not work optimally or even stop working. In this type of CSA, there are some things that could be a trigger such as congenital malformations, cerebrovascular disease or drug toxicity. As for the combined type is the type of sleep apnea sufferers of OSA and CSA as well.

One of the most troubling of inin illness is that the sufferer usually never notice. The most appropriate way to detect this disease is to see a doctor or ask someone else to keep an eye on you while sleeping. One of the main features that appear are generally the patient will often experience awakened during sleep, whether consciously or not, to force the lungs in order to do the breathing. In addition there are characteristics that can sideline you make a benchmark early as snoring, sleep soundly, the body does not feel refreshed when you wake up, often feel sleepy during the day, often suffer from headaches and difficulty concentrating.

So can this disease be cured? Fortunately it can be cured of this disease. Now scientists have discovered a method of treatment that can be done to reduce or eliminate sleep apnea, the method adopted is based on the type and level of experienced sleep apnea, such as:

1. Methods of Behavior Therapy

In some cases of sleep apnea occurs because of a pattern of misconduct from the patient. One of them is eating unhealthy behaviors so that patients who are obese can trigger sleep apnea. In addition we will sleep behavior while also sometimes can trigger sleep apnea so avoid eating or exercise before bed, the room is too bright, the position of the bed and read or watch TV in bed.

2. Methods of Drug Therapy

Nowadays there are many types of drugs that can be used to deal with sleep apnea depends Jennis cause, so make sure you learned about the causes of sleep apnea you before choosing a drug that will consume. For example, a diet drug that caused obesity in patients, teroid therapy in patients due to lack of thyroid or steroid use.

3. Method of Operation

Ni methods generally only be performed on patients who have sleep apnea or severe level in people who have resistance to certain drugs, sometimes there are also patients who take this path because the results are much faster. Operations performed will vary depending on the cause of your sleep apnea such as surgery of the respiratory tract for patients who have sleep apnea because airways narrow or blocked.

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