Sleep apnea is a serious sleep-related disease. In this disease, sleep is interrupted many times. Sometimes breathing can even stop, a person keeps changing sides throughout the night. According to a statistic, 13% of the population in the country suffers from obstructive sleep apnea. Among these, the figure for men is 19.7% and for women is 7.4%.
According to experts, Sleep Apnea can cause 30 or more breath stops in an hour or problems like changing sides. This is a disease in which many problems related to sleep can occur. Let us know how sleep apnea affects the body.
In this sleep disorder, the free muscles of the throat expand in the back part of the throat when you lie on your back. They get stretched in the middle of the breathing passage during sleep, which can cause obstruction in air. This leads to lack of oxygen in the lungs.
The brain can tolerate this lack of sleep for only 10 seconds. In such a condition, sleep is interrupted. The condition of repeated interruption of sleep is called sleep apnea.
The best treatment for obstructive sleep apnea is CPAP therapy. With its help, air pressure is used to keep the breathing passage open. It is considered quite cheap and effective. Surgery is used to treat it, but it is quite expensive, there may be some risk in it.
Published at : 18 Jul 2024 08:27 PM (IST)
