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SLEEP DISORDERS -SLEEP APNEA
By Rosemary Skinner SRN

What is sleep apnea? Is it common? Apnea means "without breath" or "want of breath". It has been estimated that more people suffer from apnea than suffer from diabetes.

What all this means is that the sufferer stops breathing during the night, sometimes for a few seconds or even for a minute or more. Caused by a blockage of the airway, soft tissue collapsing, and also when the brain fails to tell the muscles to breath, or a combination of these. Why have we not heard about sleep apnea before? It was only recognized as a serious problem in the early 1960’s

What are the symptoms? Snoring! If the sufferer is observed to stop breathing during the night. Easy to spot, he –invariably a he- stops snoring, which indicates that he has stopped breathing, often repeated many times during the night. This can result in all of the problems, many of them serious, associated with long term sleep deprivation. During the day symptoms would range from nodding off at inopportune moments, like when driving, to anxiety and depression. The major symptom is snoring. This hardly affects the sufferer but can even prevent the whole household from sleeping, giving them the same problems as the sufferer.

At Risk
Who is at risk? Almost every body. However a typical sufferer would be male, 40 years old plus and overweight. As ever diagnoses is the important issue. To accurately assess the level of apnea the sufferer should attend a specialized sleep clinic.
Conventional treatment is using a machine to pump in air at a slightly higher pressure. Using a speci mask and computerized pump. Not unlike a scuba mask, known as CPAP treatment this prevents the throat from collapsing during sleep. Dental appliances and surgery are also used.
Alternative treatment. I recommend and use the Snore FreeÔ , from Magnetic TherapyÔ for the treatment of snoring. It works. The feed back from the partners of apnea sufferers has been very enthusiastic. There is a direct link between apnea and obesity. A reducing diet is possibly the most effective but ignored treatment.

Rosemary Skinner SRN

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