mixed sleep apnea -Update yourself on Sleep Apnea

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Update yourself on Sleep Apnea

Sleep Apnea is a sleep disorder in which patient stops breathing during sleep. In this disorder, patient’s brain alerts him/her to resume the breathing process. And it ultimately results in severe snoring making loud snorts and gasping noises irritating to ears.

People suffering from this problem do not enjoy a sound sleep and thus experience many ailments related to the sleeping disorders such as lack of concentration, fatigue, week immune system, and weight gain. Also, due to lack of sleep, they tend to fall asleep while driving, listening to their employers, or spouses, or at meetings.

This disorder can be caused by smoking and alcohol use, excessive weight, and having a large neck. Among these factors, family history of this disorder also contributes to the factors. As such, there are three types of Sleep Apnea that are ( obstructive ) ( central ) and ( mixed )

We shall discuss here all three types one by one. OSA is an acronym of Obstructive Sleep Apnea. It is one of the most common forms of . While you are asleep, the soft tissues in the back of the throat can collapse due to one or the other reasons. In this type of , you experience a stop in breathing process several times, often for a minute or longer. Central Sleep Apnea is a type in which brain stops alerting and messaging the muscles to breath. In this case brain is the main culprit. Then it is Mixed Sleep Apnea. As the name itself suggests, it is a combination of the other two above mentioned conditions/types. In this condition, your brain fails to remind your muscles to breathe by the fully or partially blockage of air passage.

If you have mild disorder, memory foam mattress significantly diminishes the chances. The memory foam mattress is a revolutionary mattress that helps you to sleep better at night. Apart from the memory foam mattress treatment, sleep apnea can also be treated by the changes in lifestyle, Surgery, medications, a mouthpiece, and a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP).To wrap up, this perticular sleep disorder if left untreated can create nuisance and an embarrassing situation to the person who is suffering from this disorder.

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Sheila Kun Nurse Case Manager Pediatric Pulminology skun@chla.usc.edu CCHS Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) or primary alveolar hypoventilation, is a respiratory disorder that is fatal if untreated. Persons afflicted with Ondine’s curse classically suffer from respiratory arrest during sleep. Persons who have CCHS get it at birth, or develop it due to severe neurological trauma/damage to the brainstem. The diagnosis may be delayed because of variations in the severity of the manifestations or lack of awareness in the medical community, particularly in milder cases. (Chin, 2006).[1] This very rare and serious form of central sleep apnea involves an inborn failure of autonomic control of breathing. About 1 in 200000 live born children have the condition. In 2006, there were only about 200 known cases worldwide. In all cases, episodes of apnea occur in sleep, but in a few patients, at the most severe end of the spectrum, apnea also occurs while awake. A persons gender or race is not a determining factor when dealing with susceptibility to CCHS. Males and females are both affected equally and a person’s ethnicity, as of this point, has been not been coincided a variable to the disease.