Sleep Apnea is a common physiological disorder characterized by reduction of breathing during sleep. Breathing pauses lasts from 10-20 seconds they often occur 5-30 times an hour while you sleep and then normal breathing starts again.
Apnea means a period of time in which breathing is stopped or markedly reduced. It is a chronic condition that disrupts your nap you often move out of deep sleep and into light sleep when your breathing pauses this results in poor sleep quality that makes you tired throughout the day and it is one of the major causes of excessive daytime sleepiness.
This condition is common in adults and is often related to obesity. In children common causes of this disorder is Tonsillitis (a condition in which children have enlarged tonsils tissues in their throats) in many cases usually people don't know that they have a disorder because it occurs only in sleep so the diagnosis of this disorder is little complicated.
Symptoms:
- Extremely loud snoring.
- Choking.
- Loud pauses in breathing
- Day time sleepiness no matter how much time you on bed
- Waking up with dry mouth.
- Morning headaches.
- Restlessness.
- Insomnia.
- Going to bathroom frequently during night.
- Forgetfulness.
- Difficulty in concentrating.
- Irritability.
- Depression.
- Fatigue.
- Difficulty performing work.
- Anxiety.
- Emotional problems.
- Social problems.
- Difficulty in learning new tasks.
- Sexual dysfunction.
Types of Apnea:
There are three types of apnea:
- Obstructive.
- Central.
- Mixed.
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