Stress at work, dietary changes and lack of physical fitness affects your overall health and well being. The stressors at work and lack of sleep have made us vulnerable to different types…
Tag: Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Why Am I Always Tired?
Do you often wonder why are you always tired? Do you face trouble trying to stay awake to watch your favorite sitcoms? Most of us are quite familiar knowing what it feels…
Shift Work Disorder Medication
Shift work disorder medication is one of the imperative things a person needed who is suffering from the shift work disorder. This is a condition in which a person experiences difficulty in…
Relationship Between Alcohol and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
No matter how other people see alcohol consumption beneficial to their health or in improving their sleeping pattern, in the long run, regular alcohol consumption or even alcohol misuse can lead to…
Herbal Remedies for Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is one of the many sleep disorders that require immediate medical attention. Sleep apnea is characterized by episodes of pauses of breathing during sleep, snoring, insomnia (difficulty falling and staying…
Central Sleep Apnea and Obesity
Central sleep apnea is a medical condition wherein a person will stop breathing multiple times due to the malfunctioning of the part of the brain which controls breathing. Obesity in its extreme…
CPAP Withdrawal – The Bad & the Ugly
CPAP withdrawal is bad; there is no other way to put it. CPAP therapy is for life, it is necessity to protect people who suffer from sleep apnea from potentially life threatening…
How to Diagnose Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is one of the most common types of sleep disorders, which is characterized by having one or more pauses in breathing or shallow breaths while a person is asleep. Each…
Sleep Apnea | CPAP Mask Offers Some The Best Sleep
Snoring problems are not something to be overly concerned about, unless they are disrupting you or your bed partner in sleep. But snoring sound may be a sing of sleep apnea, a…
Are Sleep Apnea & Sleep Seizure Connected?
Among sleep disorders, one of the most prominent disorders is sleep apnea. It is a partial or complete blockage of air going into the human body through nose while sleeping. It is…
Types of Central Sleep Apnea
Central Sleep Apnea is a dangerous medical condition where a person’s brain fails to communicate with the muscles of the body which control a person’s breathing. The brain control breathing by sending…
A CPAP Alternative | Provent Therapy for Sleep Apnea
I will be giving information on the Provent Therapy system which is an alternative for CPAP therapy. If you suffered from sleep apnea, in most cases your doctor would have asked you…
Risks of Not Using CPAP Regularly
If you suffer from sleep apnea, your doctor would have suggested CPAP or Continuous Positive Airway Pressure therapy as treatment. In CPAP therapy, pressurized air will be blow into your air passageway…
Nasopharynx, Oropharynx, Laryngopharynx Effects On Snoring And Sleep Apnea
This is going to be very interesting article for everybody because here it becomes very visual with the illustrations of the pharynx, nasopharynx, oropharynx, laryngopharynx and you can really start understanding what…
Obstructive vs. Central Sleep Apnea
One of the most serious sleep disorders which is considered to be serious because breathing can repeatedly stop and start again. If you snore loudly and if you feel tired even after…
How to distinguish between central sleep apnea and complex sleep apnea
There are three main types of sleep apnea, which are the obstructive or complex sleep apnea, central sleep apnea and mixed sleep apnea. Most of the people are unaware whether they are…
The CPAP Machine
CPAP machine, which stands for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, is a respironics device that works under positive pressure therapy. This respiratory device uses machines to assist people who have obstructive sleep apnea…
What is sleep apnea?
What is sleep apnea? Sleep apnea is a sleeping disorder in which breathing stops or gets too shallow and the oxygen within the blood stream drops below normal levels. Apnea occurs when…
Video: What Causes Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
This is a very nice video I want to share which I have found on YouTube. It shows clearly the issue of sleep apnea and in a very nice visual way explains…