How to recognize sleep apnea? Signs of apnea. Consequences of breathing disorders in a dream.
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What is apnea?
You may rather snore for many years, and your spouse or spouse are concerned about. At night you stop breathing, and the full silence comes in your bedroom. Sometimes it lasts a few seconds, sometimes more than a minute.
Suddenly you are sorely and start breathing again. Your frightened partner wakes up, you yourself do not notice anything, despite the interrupted sleep. And so continues all night.
In the morning you feel unreceived, complain about the headache and stiffness of the muscles shoulders and the nape. During the day you feel fatigue and a breakdown, you are constantly cloning to sleep at the first opportunity. It is hard for you to cope with the usual work, you have a decrease concentration of attention, irritability increases.
Perhaps you have a recent problem in the intimate sphere? Or you recently almost fell asleep?
What is a sleep apnea?
Concept «apnea» Means the stop of breathing. Under the term apnea sleep, they understand the stopping of breathing during sleep. In medicine distinguish two forms of sleep apnea: central and obstructive origin.
Mixed forms are also found.
At «obstructive sleep apnea» Respiratory stops arise due to obstruction (narrowing) of the upper respiratory tract. During sleep, the muscles of the body is relaxing, including the muscles of the pharynx and soft nose, which leads to the weave of the root of the tongue and the blockage of the upper respiratory tract.
At the same time, the diaphragm (the main respiratory muscle of the body) continues to receive respiratory impulses from the brain and, as a result, intensively shrink. At the same time, there is a negative pressure in the respiratory tract, which leads to resignation of the respiratory tract and their blockage.
When stopping the breath in a dream (apnea) longer than 10 seconds, repeated from 5 to 10 times per hour, the body begins to seriously suffer from hypoxia due to the lack of sufficient oxygen. Due to these episodes of apnea and hypoxia, the brain receives alarms that cause emergency awakening.
What can appne sleep
Numerous reactions of awakening during sleep are often not noticed by patients, while they violate the natural structure of sleep.
A man wakes up in the morning in the morning and feels broken, because neither the body nor the psyche is restored in due measure during such sleep. This leads to a significant reduction in the quality of life.
Another consequence of sleep disorders is the growing risk of accidents in everybody, in the workplace, when driving a car. Prolonged episodes of night hypoxia adversely affect vital organs, such as heart and brain. In addition, the risk of developing hypertension is significantly increased.
Patient must be referred to a specialist. Only in this way you can find out the causes of the disease and its degree.
Possible consequence of sleep apnea are:
- Violations of sleep
- Loud snoring
- Extreme fatigue Day
- Permanent drowsiness
- Reduced performance
- reduced concentration of attention and forgetfulness
- headaches in the morning
- Complaints on the heart
- Increased pressure
- depression
- Phobia
- Dizziness
- low self-esteem
- Conditions of night anxiety with high sweating and Nikturia (night urinary calls)
- nightmares
- impotence
- Constant need in a dream
- Abuse of coffee and (or) overeating as an attempt to overcome fatigue
- Reducing the activity of participation in public life
- Detection of the quality of life
