Sleep Apnea
What is snoring?
Snoring is a noisy culmination during sleep, especially in adults with weight problems, as a result of tongue, soft palate and tiny tongue losing tension and narrowing of the pale side. It can be sometimes seen as chronic but it actually can be the messenger of serious illnesses.
The snoring population, which is not under the control of the quince, is found to be 45% of the population. The person has respiratory distress problems causing snoring during the sleep. The person will not get enough sleep and it will result with sleepy during the day, inefficient and tiredness.
What is Sleep Apnea ?
It is called Sleep Apnea, in which the tissues completely collapse without losing their tension and block the way of breathing.
The symptoms of sleep apnea are excessive daytime sleepiness, snoring during the sleep and breathing stops. If sleep apnea does not get treated then it can cause stroke, heart attack, sudden death during sleep, hiper tension, heart rhythm disorder.
Treatment Methods
People who have sleep apnea findings must spend one night in the sleep laboratory and get sleep test. Your body functions during sleep during nighttime sleep are assessed by expert sleep technicians. To be able to determine sleep periods as standard electroencephalogram (EEG), electroocuiogram (EOG), electromyogram (EMG) reports, records the breathing air zone by wearing tiny nose equipment, determine breathing movements by wearing belts which placed on the breast and stomach and finally records level of oxygen and heart rhythm by with finger latch detectors.
You can have sleeping test in our center’s sleep laboratory, you can consult with our doctors about snoring and sleep apnea.
IF ANSWER “YES” TO AT LEAST THREE OF THE THESE SYMPTOMS THEN YOU MAY BE SLEEP APNEA PATINET
- Are you snoring?
- Even though you sleep enough but you still wake up tired?
- Do you feel sleepy during the day?
- Do you have problem with concentration?
- Do you have memory lost that you did not have before?
- Do you get drowse while driving?