What is Sleep Apnea?
Every night, millions of us experience Pause, or lack of breath during sleep. Sleep apnea is a serious medical diagnosis that disturbs your sleep by preventing your lungs from breathing properly. Sleep apnea is usually treated by undergoing a procedure called CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) to keep the airways open while sleeping. The treatment consists of wearing a device to make sure the airways are open while breathing in. You may have noticed that you don’t feel well after a night of not being able to breathe. The lack of oxygen in the blood lowers your body temperature, making you colder than normal. It can also make you sleepy, which makes it harder to go back to sleep.
Signs of Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a disorder that causes people to stop breathing during sleep, which can seriously affect their health. Sleep apnea can affect people of all ages, but it is most common in adults over the age of 40 but can affect you at any age. Sleep apnea is also related to obesity, so if you have a large build, you are more likely to have it.
You may already know by now that having chronic sleep apnea can affect your ability to sleep deeply, stay awake during the day, and lead to severe daytime sleepiness, which can lead to an increased risk of car crashes, work accidents, and other serious health problems. You may even experience fatigue during the day, find it hard to concentrate, and feel sleepy during the day.
Causes of Sleep Apnea
If your sleep is interrupted by noisy snoring or restless sleep, you may be suffering from sleep apnea. A sleeping disorder that causes breathing to cease during sleep, it can be hard to get a diagnosis. That’s because it’s often hard to differentiate the cause of sleep-related breathing pauses from normal breathing during sleep. The result is you might waste hours of sleep each night.
Sleep apnea occurs when the muscles that lower the upper airway, or throat, are weak or are unable to relax. Sleep apnea sufferers typically snore loudly while sleeping, and are awakened by sudden loud breathing, gasping, or choking.
Sleep Apnea Treatment
If there is a blockage in the airway, the only way to fix the problem is to apply pressure to keep that airway open. That is what a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) is for, a cpap machine is a great solution for those who suffer from sleep apnea and suffer from the symptoms of this problem: choking, gasping and snoring. These symptoms can cause great difficulty in conducting normal daily activities and social life.
What is a CPAPor continuous positive airway pressure,?
CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, is a medical device used to help treat sleep apnea, a condition that causes air to be blocked from your airways during sleep. What it does is it pumps continuous air into your airways and makes sure that the airways don’t collapse keeping air free flowing into your body.
Why using a CPAP important?
Imagine yourself as a rechargeable battery and each night you try to recharge the quality of your charge gets affected by certain factors that limit your charging each and every single, you start our each day feeling drained and not having much energy to do anything else. In the long run, this will affect your whole being and recovery by body will be harder and harder each day. Your health will slowly deteriorate and eventually your body will not have enough energy to keep your immunity up and you will get all sorts of sicknesses and ailments due to the lack of oxygen to recover each night. Sounds scary right? but it is reality that goes unchecked with a chunk of the population.
The Cpap makes sure that your body has enough oxygen to recover from the daily grind and repairs your organs and body while you sleep providing ample supply of oxygen to keep your body functioning 100%.
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Where can I get a CPAP?
Consult a sleep doctor first, there are many around and one of the best ones can be found in Medical City in Pasig. Yes, I am suffering from Obstructive sleep apnea and I decided to write this to help people understand that this can be treated and can help improve your quality of life and the people around you. I have been using a cpap machine for almost 15 years and it has help change my life. Treat CPAP as an investment for the future of your children.
Where can I get a CPAP in the Philippines?
Once you take the sleep test in any hospital, the best person to advise you on the air pressure you need to get better sleep is the sleep doctor. He can also point you best places to purchase locally.
What does a Sleep Test do?
It measures your sleep and it tells the doctor about your body’s air pressure requirement to keep that airways open so you don’t stop breathing in your sleep. When the sleep test is over, you will be given a schedule by sleep doctor for consultation and be given your prescription, this prescription will allow you to buy the machine you need to arrest sleep apnea.
The Rx is what you need to purchase a CPAP Machine
The prescription is what will tell the CPAP manufacturer the settings for you to get optimal sleep. Each person will be measured overnight in hospital hooked up to machine and there will be continuous air pressure testing. It is important that you get tested for you to better understand how to treat Sleep apnea and find the best solution to prevent it happening when you sleep.
How to prevent sleep apnea
Lose weight and live a healthy lifestyle, thats what the doctor always says. Even if you are live a healthy lifestyle and have snoring or the same symptons of sleep apnea, please go and have yourself checked, you may have other causes of sleep apnea and best to get expert advice.
