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The term “apnea” means without breath and sleep apnea is a disorder characterized by stopping or pausing breath during sleep. This is not a mild sleep disorder as longer pauses between breaths can lead to fatal consequences. Each pause in breathing spans between ten to twenty seconds or more but these pauses occur more than twenty to thirty times every hour.
Sleep apnea occurs because adequate air is unable to flow in to the lungs through the mouth or nose as one tries to breathe regularly causing a pause in the breathing activity. Normal breathing resumes with a sudden snort or choking sound but the oxygen levels in blood drop every time there is a pause in breathing.
Sleep apnea is broadly classified into two types: Central and Obstructive. Central sleep apnea is caused due to lack of effort in breathing regularly while Obstructive Sleep Apnea is caused due to a physical block in regular breathing despite effort.
If left untreated sleep apnea can cause: hypertension, stroke, irregular heart beat, heart failure or heart attack.
Symptoms of Sleep Apnea
The most common signs associated with sleep apnea
- Loud snoring
- Dry or parched throat on waking up
- Gasping or choking for breath
- Poor quality of sleep leading to sleepiness during the day
- Memory problems
- Morning headaches
- Relatively higher levels of irritation
- Inability to concentrate for a longer duration
- Depression or mood swings
Causes of Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea Symptoms, Causes, Remedy and Diet
key causes of Sleep Apnea
The causes and concerns that lead to sleep apnea as a disorder are:
- Inability of the air to flow to the lungs from the mouth or nose due to physical obstruction or lack of effort
- Brief collapsing of the throat causing pauses in breath
- The extra soft tissues in the throat among obese or over weight persons make it difficult to keep the throat area open for circulation of air
- Large tonsils or adenoids may also cause disruption in air flow to the lungs causing pauses in breath
- Hereditary or genetic features of the body such that the shape of the head and neck result in a relatively small airway between the mouth and throat area
Remedies for Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea home remedies and natural cures, Questions and answers
Common remedies suggested by medical practitioners
- Quit smoking and lose weight if a person is overweight
- Avoid alcohol and consumption of sleeping pills
- Change sleep positions to ensure regular breathing
- Tie a ball in socks and tie it across your waist such that you will change your position regularly
- Avoid sleeping on the back and try sleeping laterally
- Conduct polysomnography, a diagnostic test which measures and records a number of physiologic variables during sleep.
Diet foe Sleep Apnea
Sleep Apnea : Home Remedies suggested by users
Any Diet for Sleep Apnea
There is no specific diet or particular foods that can help treat or prevent sleep apnea
Suggestions for Sleep Apnea
Any other suggestion
There are no suggestions apart from those mentioned here to prevent or help treat sleep apnea.
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throat exercises
suggested by [unspecified] on Friday, June 6, 2008
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| Just google throat exercises and do them. They will firm up and open airways. Some of the exercises are sounds, others are for the tongue, and some are mouth shapes. These exercises also seem to help for anxiety that makes your throat feel like it is tight. |
CPAP
suggested by [unspecified] on Saturday, February 2, 2008
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| get a CPAP machine and use it every night! there is no substitute for getting REM sleep and with sleep apnea you seldom, if ever, get into that sleep pattern. my world changed completely, I can function again without feeling like I could (and often do) fall asleep when I shouldn't! |
Sleep apnea
suggested by [unspecified] on Thursday, January 3, 2008
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Eating a handful of walnuts like used in baking cookies worked wonders for my brother to sleep through the night and he hasn’t for years. Try this, I know it sounds crazy, but my brother swears it works. Someone told him about this remedy and he also thought it was nuts, ( pardon the pun ) But it does work. |
Sleep Apnea
suggested by betty on Saturday, November 10, 2007
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| I found that not eating a 2-3 hrs. before bedtime cured my sleep apnea. No snacks either. Don't eat and lay down.I use to fear choking, now I don't. |
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