Sleep Disorders Sleep Apnea

Title:
Sleep Disorders - Sleep Apnea
Word Count:
716

Summary:
Sleep Apnea is a desease that if not diagnosed can become a major contibutor to many other hea

Keywords:
Sleep, Disorders, Apnea, Snoring

Article Body:
All over the world in millions of homes, each night people are having a lousy nights sleep cau

If you stop breathing for 10 or more seconds at a time and more than ten times an hour dur

Sleep Apnea is a rather serious problem as it blocks the throat and causes the sleeper to s

The idea behind treatment of Sleep Apnea is to keep the airway open and prevent stoppages i

Behavioral Therapy, which should include avoiding alcohol and CNS depressants close to bedtime


Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), which is an effective noninvasive medical treatmen

Oral appliances may be used to reposition the lower jaw and tongue, thus opening the throat to

Surgery such as Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP)
UPPP is the most common type of surgery used to treat Sleep Apnea. It removes all the redundan

Laser-assisted Uvulopalatoplasty (LAUP) is a procedure which is performed by a specialist in h

Tracheostomy, in which a small hole is made in the Trachea or windpipe below the point of obst

Another relatively new procedure in the treatment of the sleep disorder Sleep Apnea is radiofr

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