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Monday, July 20, 2009

Aids For Sleep Apnea | Sleep Apnea Solution | - Review

Many people having problems with their sleep. From reliable surveys conducted by some health organizations, they found that people suffer to have good quality of sleep. Why this happened? I have explained it before from previous posts. Kindly you have time to read through it. Most people find their hard way to get suitable aids for sleep apnea. I mean, sleep apnea solution or sleep apnea cure. Alright, we will discuss it later.

What on earth is sleep apnea? Sleep apnea is best described as a form of sleep disordered breathing (SDB). How many categories of sleep apnea? For your information sleep apnea can divided into three parts. You can give your time read through my previous post for further details of sleep apnea types. Which type is most commonly disturb people? Obstructive sleep apnea is the one which commonly be the found in most cases. It can cause the airway to partially or fully collapse and data collected from study over 18 million Americans are affected. What a number?

Please be noted, do not take this easily and remember it has its consequences. What are the consequence of sleep apnea? Consequences of sleep apnea such as life threatening, including hypertension, stroke and cardiovascular disease. Can sleep apnea be cured? Yes, sleep apnea solutions very, depending on the severity of the disorder and on the patient’s medical history. You will feel a little bit relief after this. Every disease has its own medicine, right?

Back to the point. The sleep apnea solution is ranging from lifestyle changes until to surgery. Sleep apnea solution also has a range of effects. You can simply do lifestyles changes such as using a humidifier during sleep. Please do seriously by breaking bad habits, such as overeating, imbibing too much alcohol and smoking which can be good solution and impact too. Another simple way is by clearing the nasal passages of congestion before going to bed. Also not to forget, please avoid sleeping on the back which can alleviate sleep apnea. Alternatively, you can go for hypnosis and using natural herbs and it is easy to do and to get now at pharmacies and clinics. Another way by using traditional way that is through acupuncture treatment which can also been suggested as possible sleep apnea solution.

For your information, the above simple sleep apnea solutions can not completely relieve the problem. What is other method to cure this sleep apnoea? You can use oral appliances. This device is similar to mouth guards that used in sports. It can function to keep the airway open. In the market and dental clinics it is called 'mandibular advancement device' (MAD) and works to push the lower jaw forward. A tongue-retaining device prevents the tongue from falling back over the airway. The MAD is often adjustable so that the dentist can adjust the jaw as necessary. Alright, nice information to relief your pain.

Is there other sleep apnea solution? The answer is yes. Pressurized air is another of the sleep apnea solutions. Medically known as CPAP , continuous positive air pressure. What is CPAP? It is kind of process where with a medical pump through a flexible tube attached to a mask. Then, a stream of pressured air is pumped into the subject’s mouth. This is for keeping the airway open. What type of CPAP is commonly used nowadays? CPAP, continuous positive air pressure is most commonly used and comes with a variety of type. These are including humidifier, variable inhalation and exhalation air pressures, and also an air heater. CPAP is clinically proven as one of sleep apnea solution.

Several sleep apnea solutions include the procedures to widen the airway. One such solution is tissue reduction. The object of treating obstructive sleep apnea is to relieve and remove the cause of obstruction. One of the most popular use is clinically known as RFTR (Radiofrequency Tissue Reduction). How RFTR can cure sleep apnea? With the use of a needle connected to a radio frequency generator which can reduce the inner thickness of tissue on the tongue, on the soft palate and also on the throat. By reducing the size of tongue aids provides more room in the airway and also reduce the tissue which can capable of creating a blockage.

People who has sleep apnea commonly choose surgical procedures as sleep apnea solutions as a last option. Most of the surgical procedures are designed to help open or widen the airway. In this term, there are several famous surgical procedures can be bare in your mind. The first one is Uvulopalatoplasty. This type of surgical involves in shrinking or removing the uvula that is a bit of tissue that dangles from the roof of your mouth. For complicated sleep apnea such as nasal congestion, the surgical is needed to straighten the septum that is the partition between the nostril. Another surgical procedures can effectively be sleep apnea solution are Tonsillectomy and Adenoidectomy.

For the most difficult sleep apnea cases, usually Maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) is suggested by specialist. MMA involves detaching the upper and lower jaw. Also moving them forward and reattaching them with pins or plates.This is the most invasive of sleep apnea solutions.

Hopefully those informationabout aids for sleep apnea solution will help you a lot.

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