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Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Snoring
By Alan Schill
With the advent of sleep studies and the technology used in these studies to monitor patients throughout the night, doctors are learning some pretty sobering news about the effects of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea.
The two are not always present together for every snorer. Far more people suffer from regular snoring than obstructive sleep apnea. The differences between the two are outlined below.
Snoring
Snoring is a mild to extreme factor in the lives of millions of people. The causes of snoring include being overweight, allergies, deviated septum, blocked passages and airways, drinking alcohol, and enlarged tonsils or adenoids.
If you snore you are getting less quality sleep at night than non-snorers. This can lead to bothersome effects like nervousness and lack of concentration during the day, to serious health problems like obesity, heart disease and many others.
What doctors are telling their snoring patients is that snoring is serious and it must be addressed if their patients are to live a long, normal life.
Rather than treat it like a nuisance and live with it, many people are waking up to the fact that snoring is causing them to be miserable and lethargic during the day. Many snoring remedies exist that can completely cure snoring for most people immediately. So the problem can be dealt with successfully. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
A percentage of snorers also have something more sinister at work. It is called obstructive sleep apnea, and it is a killer.
Doctors are dead serious about treating this disease because of the serious nature of health effects it causes.
Obstructive sleep apnea causes people who suffer from it to actually stop breathing many times per night. It is common for people suffering from sleep apnea to wake themselves up over 100 times per night.
If you were to take part in a sleep study and the sleep tech reports over 100 instances where you stop breathing and wake yourself from deep REM sleep, your doctor will almost certainly prescribe something called a CPAP machine.
This machine forces your airway open with pressurized airflow so that you breathe deeply while you sleep (finally) through the night. Possibly for the first time in years.
People who suffer from heavy snoring and sleep apnea who get treatment finally realize the serious effects their snoring has produced over time.
Energy levels rise, the ability to concentrate and retain more information each day is vastly improved, and many people lose weight and have the energy to exercise more when they finally start getting the sleep they have been so desperately missing.
Most people who snore just aren't taking it as seriously as they should. Many don't know there are simple cures for snoring these days. One trip around the internet will bring up devices of all kinds which claim to cure snoring.
The best device, and least expensive, is a "chin strap." This forces the mouth to remain closed and the chin locked in place throughout the night so that the airway remains open.
For the vast majority of snorers, this is all that is required to turn their snoring problem around, and it takes effect on the first night's use.
If you are concerned about sleep apnea and have awoken at night out of breath, sweating, and/or with a rapid heart rate, you need to seek the advice of your doctor. Sleep apnea is an extremely serious disease that takes years off of your life span and ruins your health in many ways.
About the Author
Alan Schill is a writer at Sleep Genie and writes on health.
For more information on a simple, inexpensive fix for most
snorers, check out http://www.sleepgenie.com.
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