Description
Sleep Apnea is a potentially extreme sleep disturbance in which respiration slows and resumes regularly. You can have sleep apnea if you snore heavily and feel exhausted even after a good night's sleep.

The major sleep apnea forms are:

Obstructive sleep apnea, the more prevalent type of relaxed throat muscles.

Central sleep apnea, which happens when the brain does not give proper messages to the breathing-controlled muscles.

Complex sleep apnea syndrome, also known as central sleep apnea treatment, happens where someone has obstructive sleep apnea as well as central sleep apnea.

See the doctor if you suspect you may have sleep apnea. Treatment may relieve your symptoms and can help avoid issues with your heart and other complications.

The Symptoms

Obstructive and central sleep apnea signs and symptoms differ, often making it impossible to decide the type you have. The most common symptoms and signs of obstructive and central sleep apnea include the following:

Snoring loudly

Episodes in which you stop breathing during sleep, which another entity might record

Gasping during sleep for oxygen

And a dry mouth waking

Headache in the Morning

Difficulty staying asleep (insomnia)

Excessive sleepiness throughout the day (hypersomnia)

Whether to see a practitioner

A potentially severe condition can be suggested by loud snoring, but not everyone who has sleep apnea snores. If you have signs or symptoms of sleep apnea, speak to the doctor. Contact the doctor if you have a struggle with sleep that makes you sore, sleepy and irritable.

Causes

Obstructive apnea in sleep
Soft throat tissues

This happens when the muscles in the back of the throat relax. The soft palate, the triangular piece of tissue dangling from the soft palate (uvula), the tonsils, the throat sidewalls and the tongue are supported by these muscles.

Your airway narrows or closes when you breathe in, as the muscles relax.

You can't get enough ventilation, which can lower the blood oxygen level.

Your brain detects your inability to breathe and rouses you from sleep temporarily so that your airway can be reopened. Usually, this awakening is so fleeting that you can not recall it.


Maybe you'll snort, cough or cough. Per hour, all night, this cycle will repeat itself five to 30 times or more, impairing the ability to enter the deep, restful stages of sleep.


Central Apnea in Sleep
When the brain struggles to send messages to your breathing muscles, this less common cause of sleep apnea happens. This suggests that for a brief time, you make no attempt to breathe. You may wake up with breathlessness, or you may have a hard time getting to sleep or staying asleep.

Factors of Vulnerability
Sleep apnea, including babies, can affect everyone. But the probability is raised by such variables.

Obstructive apnea in sleep
Factors that raise the risk of sleep apnea of this kind include:

Weight in abundance. Obesity raises the risk of sleep apnea significantly. Your ventilation can be obstructed by fat particles in your upper airway.

Circumference of neck. Thicker-necked individuals may have smaller airways.
A shrinking of the airways. Maybe you've inherited a narrow throat. Tonsils or adenoids, particularly in infants, can also extend and obstruct the airway.

To be male. Men are two or three times more likely than women to develop sleep apnea. Women, however, increase their risk if they are overweight, and after menopause, their risk still tends to increase.

To be older. In older adults, sleep apnea happens far more frequently.

Past of families. Your chances may be enhanced by including family members with sleep apnea.

The use of tobacco, tranquilizers or sedatives. The muscles in your throat relax these chemicals, which can exacerbate obstructive sleep apnea.
Tobacco. Smokers are three times more likely than people who've never smoked to have obstructive sleep apnea. The level of inflammation and fluid accumulation in the upper airway may be raised by smoking.

Nasal stuffiness. You are more likely to experience obstructive sleep apnea if you have trouble breathing through the nose, whether from a structural disorder or allergies.

Health situations. Any of the factors which may raise the risk of obstructive sleep apnea include congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The risk can also be elevated by polycystic ovary syndrome, hormone abnormalities, recent strokes and chronic lung diseases such as asthma.

Central Apnea in Sleep
Risk factors for sleep apnea of this kind include:

To be older. There is a greater risk of central sleep apnea in middle-aged and older adults.

To be male. In adults, central sleep apnea is more prominent than in females.

Cardiac conditions. The risk is raised by developing congestive heart failure.

Take drugs for narcotic pain. The risk of central sleep apnea is increased by opioid drugs, especially long-acting ones such as methadone.
Stroke. Stroke. Getting a stroke raises the core risk of central sleep apnea or treatment-emergent central sleep apnea.

Complications
Sleep apnea is a psychiatric condition that is serious. It may contain complications:

Fatigue in the daytime. Sleep apnea-related frequent awakenings render normal, restorative sleep unlikely, rendering extreme daytime somnolence, exhaustion, and irritability inevitable.

You can have trouble focusing and find yourself falling asleep at work, when watching television or even while driving. People with sleep apnea have an elevated risk of injuries in motor cars and in the workplace.

You might also feel quick-tempered, moody or depressed. Children and adolescents with sleep apnea might perform poorly in school or have behavior problems.

High blood pressure or heart problems. Sudden drops in blood oxygen levels that occur during sleep apnea increase blood pressure and strain the cardiovascular system. Having obstructive sleep apnea increases your risk of high blood pressure (hypertension).

Your chance of repeated heart disease, stroke and irregular heartbeats, such as atrial fibrillation, can also be elevated by obstructive sleep apnea. Many episodes with low blood oxygen (hypoxia or hypoxemia) can lead to premature death from an irregular heartbeat if you have heart disease.

Diabetes Category 2. Your chance of developing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes is raised from experiencing sleep apnea.

Syndrome with metabolism. A greater incidence of cardiac failure is correlated with this condition, which entails elevated blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol levels, high blood sugar and an increased diameter of the waist.

Drug complications and surgery. For some drugs and general anesthesia, obstructive sleep apnea is also a problem. After major surgery, patients with sleep apnea may be more likely to have problems because they are vulnerable to breathing difficulties, particularly when sedated and lying on their backs.

Asking the doctor about your sleep apnea before you have surgery and how it is being treated.

Liver concerns. Sleep apnea people are more likely to have abnormal liver function test findings, and their liver is more likely to exhibit signs of scarring (non alcoholic fatty liver disease).

Partners who are sleep-deprived. Loud snoring will prevent good rest for someone who sleeps next to you. It's not rare for a companion to have to go to another room, or even to another floor of the building, to be able to get to sleep.

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