1. Snoring, Sleep and Sleep Apnea- An Overview
Snoring
Snoring in your sleep at night is a common and frequent occurrence for many people. Most people who snore do not have any serious medical condition.
Snoring does not often wake the snorer up. Their snoring disturbs their bed partner’s sleep more.
Most snoring is benign but very severe snoring can predispose us to more serious sleeping disorders. The good news is that snorers can reduce their risk of these serious diseases when their snoring, and/or sleeping disorders are diagnosed and treated.
There are many treatments available for snoring, sleep apnea and other sleeping disorders.
Sleep
Sleep is an active, organized process essential for life. It supplies the physical and emotional renewal necessary for your survival. The body relaxes nerves and muscles during sleep. That revitalizes them to carry on the biological processes inside the body. The whole process resembles recharging a battery.
Our sleep pattern depends on our circadian rhythm, the body clock that keeps us on regular 24-hour cycles and determines the quantity and quality of our sleep. This rhythm requires us to sleep for certain period regularly. The amount of necessary sleep may be different in different individuals, but it needs to be free of any disruption. Research shows that 8 hours of sleep a day is optimum for most people while some can sleep less because they condition their brain to achieve highly effective sleep.
Deprivation of sleep may lead to several physical and mental disorders.
Sleep is a crucial part of our survival. Most people need uninterrupted sleep for at least 8 hours each day. Unchecked sleep disorders need quick medical attention and diagnosis as they could become fatal.
Sleep Apnea?
Apnea is from Greek;‘Ap’ - “without” and ‘nea’ - “breath”. Sleep apnea means ‘cessation of breath’ and may occur twenty to sixty times within each hour.
If you are unable to breathe properly at night and wake up gasping for breath, you may have sleep apnea. It is diagnosed by monitoring your breathing as you sleep. The presence of the cessation of breathing for more than 10 seconds occurring more than a few times during sleep is indicative of sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea consists of apnoeic episode from 10 to 90 seconds where you stop breathing. You might have many episodes in each hour of your night.
Most people don’t know there’s a problem, so they don’t seek treatment!
2. What Happens When You Snore?
Snoring is when a sleeping person emits loud, hoarse or harsh sounds during sleep.
Snoring may develop into Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). People that snore have a higher than average chance of developing symptoms of major ailments like heart diseases and high blood pressure especially if they have the major risk factors; excessive body weight, smoking and high alcohol consumption.
There may be several reasons for snoring.
It mostly occurs when the airflow from your nose or mouth to the lungs become turbulent because of narrowing in your nose, mouth or throat which causes air in the tissues of the airway to vibrate.
Too much relaxation of your throat muscles may cause narrowing in the airway, disturbing the airflow and vibrating the soft palate and uvula. The soft palate and uvula can knock the back of the throat and produce sounds.
When you are awake, the throat muscles hold the tissues in the back of the mouth in place so snoring does not occur when you are awake. The state of wakefulness is also accompanied by restoration of the muscle tone which makes it almost impossible to snore while you are awake. (The exception is when someone tries to create the sound of snoring.)
Snoring can severely affect the quality of sleep. The louder the snoring, the worse your sleep quality.
You can do a few things to avoid snoring.
Weight plays a big role, just like in sleep apnea. Try to lose weight if you are overweight.
Avoid taking alcohol and other sedatives at bedtime.
Different people have different sleeping postures. Experiment a little and find one that is both comfortable and prevents you from snoring. You might find that a simple change in posture is all that is required.
3. Types of Sleep Apnea?
There are three types of Sleep Apnea:
a. Obstructive Sleep Apnea
This is the most common type of sleep apnea and occurs when your airway collapses during sleep and becomes blocked by your tonsils, tongue, uvula (the hanging tissue at the back of your throat), your throat muscles or some fatty tissue in the throat.
Your brain gets signals that your breathing is blocked and you wake.
Obstructive sleep apnea can lead to excessive daytime sleepiness and even narcolepsy (sudden lapse of consciousness), which can be dangerous. The continual deprivation of oxygen during episodes increases the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular problems.
b. Central Sleep Apnea (CSA)
This is a less common form. Your breathing muscles stop temporarily when communication to or from your brain is interrupted.
The symptoms are like obstructive sleep apnea but there are usually some others such as changes in your voice, body weakness, numbness of body parts and difficulty in swallowing.
Central sleep apnea, like obstructive sleep apnea, causes extreme sleepiness and lack of concentration during the day, irritability, heart diseases and high blood pressure.
Ondine’s curse is an after-effect where you continue to have difficulty breathing easily while sleeping.
Some people living in high altitudes or who have suffered severe heart attacks or brain injuries and have Central Sleep Apnea may even experience apnoeic episodes while they are wide-awake.
c. Mixed Sleep Apnea
This is a combination of both obstructive and central sleep apnea, due to both improper functioning of brain and blockade of your airways.
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