Apnea is a disease of snoring

If often enough, despite a long sleep, you feel absent-minded and tired in the morning, then, perhaps, you need to contact a specialist. Similarly, regular stops of breathing during sleep, which doctors call "apnea syndrome." This disease is often detected in those who snore. Usually such people have excessive body weight, short and thick neck. Apnea is more often observed in representatives of the male half of humanity. The likelihood of an ailment increases with years. Also, smokers and hypertensive patients are at risk. The process of the development of the disease depends on the anatomical features of the larynx, pharynx and nose. In the event that the pathways of breathing are narrowed (regardless of the cause), the likelihood that respiratory arrest occurs in a dream increases.

Apnea: symptoms

Symptoms of the disease can be noticed first and foremost by close people who are awake. With genuine anxiety, you can observe how suddenly snoring stops during apnea and stops breathing. Then the sleeping patient snores loudly and starts to breathe again. At the same time he often turns, moves his legs or hands. For one night, up to 400 similar stops of the breathing process can take place, the total time being 3-4 hours.

What happens if you hold your breath?

Apnea is a disease in which the most often stopping of breathing occurs due to the mechanical blocking of the process of obtaining oxygen by the body. This variant of the disease is called obstructive. In this case, the walls of the respiratory tract for some reason drop completely and block air access to the lungs. Then a defensive reaction of the organism manifests itself in the form of a disturbance in the balance in it between carbon dioxide and oxygen. This becomes an incentive for the center of breathing, and again takes a breath. At the same time, an alarm is sent to the brain, and the person awakens for a moment. This process is repeated again and again, naturally, sleep is disturbed, resulting in an increase in blood pressure, a broken state and the risk of an accident. Apnea is a disease that can result in a heart attack or stroke.

Methods of fighting the disease

Adhering to some rules, you can independently overcome the disease:

1. A dream is only on its side. At the position of the body on the back, the tongue falls, breaking the breath.
2. Providing an elevated head position. When it is thrown back, the process of supplying the body with oxygen stops.
3. Refusal of all possible sleeping pills and sedatives, which reduce muscle tone, which contribute to relaxation of the pharynx musculature.
4. Providing a free respiratory process through the nose (its difficulty increases snoring and provokes a stop of breathing).
5. Use of devices for the mouth against snoring. Apnea is a disease in which they often act effectively, but, of course, are not a complete solution to the problem. Use the device is recommended for easy snoring.

Rejection of bad habits

Apnea is an ailment, the development of which is possible due to smoking, drinking alcohol and increasing body weight. Therefore, you should abandon the bad habits and overeating, which provoke stopping breathing. Otherwise, the result can be deplorable.