According to the Greek dictionary Sleep apnea means "without breath". Sleep apnea is one of the sleeping disorders which you can find in every generation. Activity like stop breathing is generally you will found or face in night.
1. Obstructive apnea
2. Central apnea
3. Mixed apnea
Obstructive apnea is one of the common types of sleep apnea, which is commonly found in each generation. Some times people are unable to inhale through their nose or mouth at night; even they can not take or exhaust air through their nose or mouth. You will often wake up continuously for this choking of nasal cavity. Generally these will occur in the body of an individual minimum 50 times in an hour. It is believed that a person who suffers from this obstructive apnea fails to sleep in night.
Central apnea is always deals with the nervous system of your body. It is less effective than Obstructive apnea. If you suffered from this type of diseases the muscles will not allow you to send messages to your brain to taking breathe.
Mixed apnea implies that this disease is the combination of two above.
There is no such age bar or generation, these three forms of diseases can attack any one of them. Frankly to say no one will be going to safe from these effects. It is said that there are some positive or negative effects to sleep apnea. These three states of conditions can prevail in men particularly who are more than 40 years rather than women. The main thing to be concern about your overweight you may male or female.
The bad effect like severe headache you may feel at your wake up very early morning only if suffers from any of those three disorders. These disorders will force you to the whole day in drowsiness. Even it will more precarious while you are in driving, talking or walking, because of your loosing concentration. Along with all these bad effects, these three conditions can lift you to high blood pressure, some how you will be in dreadful situation if the heart attack occurred.
As we discussed above about the symptoms of these alarming situation, it is quite often to happen everybody. Some people are also suffering from snoring and sudden wake up with a loud sound. If this type of problems you are facing don’t delay or hesitate to take the advices from the specialist doctor.
Diagnosing is not the best solution to anticipate the various reasons for sleep disorders. Polysomnography and the multiple sleep latency tests are the one of the other different resources that available in now a day to avoid sleep disorders. The chief function of the polysomnography is to record all tests of brain activity while you are in sleep. This time your eye movement muscle oxygen levels in your blood will be automatically checked out. It is a good process to find out the causes of sleeping disorders like apnea.
You can also measure the sleepiness of patient by multiple latency sleep test that how quickly he gets to sleep. Also a person needs a good treatment, who sleeps very quickly in just five minutes.
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the best assured treatment for a person is diagnosed himself with having sleep apnea. Wearing a mask over nose is the treatment of this CPAP system, will help people to take breath with effortlessly. This treatment has the side effects like sore throats or headaches, although it is effective and inconvenient. Then the surgery is the ultimate solution. If you are determined to stay away from the sleep apnea, you should give up drinking, smoking cigarettes and losing weight.
