CPAP Pillow for CPAP users:
These pillows are designed to aid CPAP users to make them comfortable while sleeping. So, these pillows are not really alternatives to CPAP treatment, but it helps you in sleeping better with your CPAP mask.
This pillow is specially designed to allow the mask and nose to stay in place, while avoiding pressure points on the face and leaks in the mask while sleeping. Many pillows have soft polyester fill with a special cotton cover (removable for washing).
Benefits of CPAP pillow:
- Enhance your sleeping experience
- Provides unsurpassed comfort
- Provides increased freedom of the patient's movement during the night
- Supports the neck and keeps the spine aligned
- Reduces leaks from the mask
- Decreases pressure of the CPAP mask against the face
Disadvantages of CPAP pillow:
- The pillow can be bulbous and hard
- Discomfort
- It can leave little real pillow to rest a head on
- According to some company's return policy, hygiene law prohibit them accepting returns or giving refunds on pillow
Sleep Apnea Weight Loss:
Sleep apnea weight loss should be recommended to all obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea. Decreasing body weight is a logical target to reduce OSA burden but also to improve a range of health outcomes and quality of life.
As obesity is the most important risk factor for apnea episodes, sleep apnea weight loss would be expected to lead to an increase in upper airway dimensions and an improvement in sleep breathing disorder.
It has been shown that loss of weight can lead to an improved sleep efficiency, decreased snoring and improved oxygenation of the blood.
In cases of dramatic weight loss by extreme dieting or surgery, OSA severity is improved and in some patients abolished.
The benefit of Sleep Apnea Weight Loss is that if your disorder is due to obesity, then weight loss is your lifesaver.
Dietary weight loss remains challenging; therefore, achieving and maintaining a target body weight is difficult.
I think you know very well that substantial weight loss by non-surgical means is both difficult to achieve and even harder to sustain. Therefore, it is an effective but difficult long-term therapeutic strategy.
The treatment for sleep apnea through weight loss is not for lazy people. You should be very motivated, not only to start this program, but to continue and make a habit of it.
If you add the fact that you are overweight, have fear for surgery, and you can't sleep with a CPAP machine...then I think you are very motivated to try a sleep apnea weight loss.
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