what is Sleep Apnea? What are remedies and medication?
by Sarah Aniston
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Get up 3-5 times for urination and mucas is struck up in the throat. i go to sleep in office and while driving.
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Sleep apnea is when you stop breathing for a short time while asleep. not sure about all remedies available but there is a positive pressure mask you can wear while sleeping thats supposed to help
Sleep apnea is the stoppage of breathing while sleeping. Breathing usually resumes, but not before oxygen levels in the blood drop to unhealthy lows. Untreated, it can cause daytime drowsiness, difficulty arising in the morning even when you have had plenty of sleep, headaches; severe cases can cause a heart attack or death.
It is caused by the soft tissues in the back of the mouth relaxing in sleep to the point where they seal off the airway. It is usually accompanied by snoring, sometimes explosively loud snoring.
There are a number of treatments, but there is no one “best” one–some work for some people and do not work for others.
If the apnea sufferer is overweight, the first thing to do is try to lose weight gradually through diet and exercise. When you gain weight, the soft tissues get thicker and tend to seal up easier and when you lose weight they reduce and tend to be more likely to remain open.
Decongestants may help temporarily shrink these soft tissues, but repeated use of decongestants can reduce their effectiveness, as a tolerance is built up. Also, they have side effects.
Other treatments for apnea include a machine such as the CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) that pumps a steady stream of air through your nostrils to keep the airways open. It can take a little getting used to one of these before you can sleep with the apparatus on your face, but it is very effective.
Surgery can remove parts of your soft palate (the back of the roof of the mouth) and in some patients this reduces or eliminates apnea, but results of the surgery are mixed, and while some people don’t miss the tissue removed, others find it very uncomfortable and regret having the surgery.
I encourage you to get as much information as possible on the different treatments so that you can decide which is best for you. The following link takes you to “sleep apnea” search results on Google, there are a number of good links there:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22sleep+apnea%22
This is when you stop breathing while asleep. If overweight, losing some weight helps, also raise the head end of your bed by a couple of inches. You can get a machine that blows oxygen into your face while sleeping, this oxygenate your system and you wont be falling asleep at inappropriate times. See your doctor, this can be dealt with. Good Luck