Symptoms of sleep apnea
My husband has Sleep Apnea. There are times at night when he gasp's for air or he stops breathing. Sleep apnea is due to someone being over weight, large tonsils or adenoids. Sleep Apnea can be life threatening if not treated.
The symptoms of Sleep Apnea are: frequent silence during sleep due to the breaks in breathing. He or she will choke or gasp when they are sleep to try to get air in their lungs. He or she will have loud snoring. They will suddenly wake up to catch his or her breath. He or she will fall asleep at inappropriate times during the day. You could be talking to him or her and they just fall asleep from not getting a good nights sleep due to Sleep apnea.
Sleep Apnea can have an effect on his or her health. Sleep Apnea can have serious consequences if not taken care of. The consequences are sleep deprivation an oxygen deprivation.
Sleep deprivation not only hurts the one who has, but it also hurts your partner who you are sharing your bed with. He or she could lose up to an hour or more of sleep due to your partner having Sleep Apnea and keeping him or her awake. A person who has sleep apnea will awake many times during the night having to urinate frequently or sweating.
Most of the time a person with sleep apnea will feel like he or she has not slept or has trouble staying awake during the day. Some side effects of sleep deprivation is poor, mental emotionally health an irritability.
Oxygen deprivation is when you stop breathing and he or she does not get enough oxygen to the brain. Serious problems can result from oxygen deprivation of sleep apnea, including heart disease, high blood pressure,and learning/memory loss.
There is treatment for people who have sleep apnea. First, try the self-help treatment. That would be try to lose weight, don't drink or use sedatives, sleep on his or her side, Raise the head of your bed 4-6 inches, set a bed time for your self, use a nasal dilator, or strips for his or her nose.
The second, treatment to try for sleep apnea would be a mask called the CPAP (continuous passage airway passage.) The CPAP is the most recommended treatment for moderate to severe sleep apnea. The CPAP is a mask he or she wears while sleeping. The CPAP provides his or her airway from collapsing while sleeping. The CPAP can be very uncomfortable and hard to use. If he or she is not use to the CPAP.
If anyone you know has sleep apnea let him or her know about the health risk associated with it and what they can do to prevent sleep apnea.
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