Sleep Apnea

What is sleep apnea?

Man spends a third of their lives sleeping. Sleep is critical to health, being essential to the operation of the maximum physical and mental capacity.

During sleep, respiration and heart rate decreases and blood pressure and body temperature changes. An insufficient sleep or problems affecting the functions and health.

Apnea is a temporary interruption of breathing. People suffering from sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during sleep, for periods ranging from several seconds to a minute or more.

Obstructive apnea is caused by upper airway occlusion. Apnea occurs when throat muscles and tongue relax during sleep and partially block the airways. Risk factors may be obesity, enlarged tonsils and adenoids.

If within an hour the patient has at least ten interruptions in breathing, each lasting at least 10 seconds each, the amount of oxygen reaching the brain is insufficient. In this case, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood increases heart rate variations occur. Decrease in oxygen concentration triggers a partial awakening (microtrezire “), together with a snore powerful and sudden inspiration. These “microtreziri” remain unnoticed by the patient, but produce a superficializare sleep. This light sleep leads to poor recovery of the body during the night and daytime sleepiness and fatigue.

Patients suffering from sleep apnea often feel very tired and sleepy during the day and their ability to concentrate and daytime performance suffer dramatically.

In the long run, seriously damaging vital organs desaturaţiile repeated. Untreated sleep apnea leads to complications such as blood pressure, heart disease or stroke.

Obstructive sleep apnea

Obstructive sleep apnea is the most common form of sleep apnea manifested, there are other types of sleep apnea, more rare, but can cause similar symptoms.

Sleep apnea article written by wasm.org

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