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CPAP Machines and Airway Masks
A CPAP machine is the most effective obstructive sleep apnea treatment option, and may also prevent snoring if the machine is used correctly.
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CPAP Machine Problems
CPAP masks and machines can cause a range of problems that impair sleep apnea treatment, including dry mouth, discomfort, skin irritation and claustrophobia.
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Getting Started Using a CPAP Machine
Patients use a CPAP machine to help with snoring, sleep apnea, low oxygen level, certain heart issues, nighttime choking, and daytime fatigue.
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Caregiver Role in Using a CPAP Machine
Caregivers assist patient toward use of CPAP machine to help with snoring, sleep apnea, low oxygen levels, certain heart issues, nighttime choking, and daytime fatigue.
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Sleep Apnea BiPAP and AVS Machines
Describes BiPAP (bilevel continuous airway pressure) and AVS (adaptive servo-ventilator) machines, two sleep apnea treatment alternatives to the CPAP.
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CPAP Therapy for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) is the treatment of choice for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. CPAP is a device worn during sleep that keeps breathing passages open.
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Snoring and Sleep Apnea Treatment
Provides an overview of sleep apnea treatment, including use of a CPAP machine, oral applications, sleep apnea surgery and lifestyle changes.
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An Operation Obsession
A large body of research exists to raise questions about the use of most currently available operations for obstructive sleep apnea. Nevertheless, these continue in widespread use, often persistently sought by patients despite evidence against their effectiveness, at least in contrast to that of CPAP. This article considers some explanations for this "operation obsession."
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A Minor Matter of Delay . . .
A recently published research abstract showing the high frequency of accidents and other untoward events during the few weeks' delay between first clinical diagnosis of OSA and first sleep study fails to consider the greater implications of other, longer delays in getting OSA diagnosed and treated.
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An Apneic Abroad
The author recounts his misadventures trying to use his CPAP machine during foreign travels--as a warning to others. He also describes a plan to carry spares of every CPAP part when traveling abroad.
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Damaged Brains?
Research findings showing neuropsychological impairment of the type commonly associated with brain disease in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, even under treatment with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, raise fears of irreversible "brain damage" as a consequence of OSA. However, research has yet to separate continuous impairment from state-dependent impairment related to varying levels of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. Until such studies show otherwise, patients should maintain an attitude of concern enough to keep track of new findings, but resist counterproductive worry and anxiety over the issue.
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Postoperative Catastrophes with OSA Patients: Two Sad Accounts
Obstructive Sleep Apnea presents special hazards after surgery, requiring adjustment of postoperative care, which often fails to take place. Two cases of mortality illustrate this point.
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Sleeping Dancing with Death
Every night I would sleep dance with death until I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder and proscribed treatment. Now I dance with a different partner - a CPAP machine and it saves my life every time I sleep!
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Where Did My Sleep Go?
Good health shouldn't cause you to lose sleep at night
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Sleep Apnea and Didgeridoos
Australian aboriginal didgeridoo playing can improve moderate obstructive sleep apnea symptoms by strengthening the airways and reducing sleep disturbances.
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Snoring more than Embarassing
Snoring can be the first sign of sleep apnea, which can lead to heart disease, diabetes, depression, hypertension and sleeping inappropriately.
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What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
Millions of people suffer from sleep apnea - a potentially dangerous condition in which breathing stops during sleep. The most common symptom of sleep apnea is snoring.
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Living With Sleep Apnoea
Sleep Apnoea is a condition which affects sleep patterns and habits. It occurs when the sufferer stops breathing at several points during the night.
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How to Get a Spouse to Stop Snoring
There is no need for married couples to suffer at night when there are a number of cures to stop snoring.
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SDB & PLMS: What Does It Mean?
SDB and PLMS, two different causes of sleep disruption, appear to be associated in individuals, and in time. This shows one example of the multifactorial nature of sleep problems.
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Exercise & Apnea: Blessing or Curse?
A recent study has shown that a modest exercise program improves symptoms of sleep apnea. Aside from the good news that a little increase of activity can help, there is the danger that such findings will encourage doctors to perpetuate the already too prevalent practice of "blaming the victim" of apnea for being overweight and out of shape, which are consequences of as much as contributors to the disease. A solution to these problems may lie out of reach of many symptomatic apnea patients.
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A Night in a Sleep Lab Part Two
In Part Two, we will see what usually happens in a typical Sleep Lab. Are you ready for an adventure?
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Relaxation and Sleep Disorders
It is hard enough to get quality sleep when you do not have to cope with any sleep disorders, it is even hard when you suffer from Sleep Apnea, insomnia or any of a host of other debilitating sleep disorders. Relaxation is one such technique that can help you get a good night’s sleep.
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Treatment of Snoring
If one and all have diagnosed you as a “snorer”, then you probably have been told how to cure it. There are probably as many cures for snoring as there are people complaining about your snoring. This article take a look at some of the options.
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Definition of Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder causing brief interruptions in breathing and disrupting sleep. Sleep apnea can cause stroke and heart attacks.
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ENT Disorders at Large
The area of medicine that deals with ear, nose and throat disorders is constantly evolving. This article describes this highly specialized type of medical practice.
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea is a problem with breathing and sleeping that can have serious consequences.
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Obstructive Sleep Apnea & Surgery
Obstructive sleep apnea surgery can alleviate snoring and OSA symptoms. Surgical options for sleep apnea are usually only suggested if CPAP treatment fails.
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Sleep Matters
Sleep deprivation is not always a consequence of stress. It can be due to 'Sleep Apnoea' and needs treatment. Read on to know more about this condition.
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The Overweight Effect
A good night's sleep is just as important as eating right and drinking lots of water. But sleep apnea makes getting the full eight hours just about impossible.
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The Dangers of Sleep Apnea
The sudden death recently of football great Reggie White from complications due to Sleep Apnea combined with an inflammatory condition shocked the sports world. It also points out the dangers of undiagnosed sleep disorders such as Sleep Apnea.
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Sleep Apnea Risks and Symptoms
One of the most common sleep disorders, sleep apnea, carries some serious health risks if left untreated.
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Snoring Causes and Treatments
Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea are potential killers and not just from exasperated partners taking matters into their own hands. So beware: snoring can kill.
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Snoring: Causes and Solutions
Snoring can cause more than a disrupted night's sleep. On occasion it can have life altering consequences. Current knowledge and corrective suggestions will be discussed.
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Sleep Disorders and Traumatic Brain Injuries
A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine casts doubt on the effectiveness of treating sleep disorders associated with traumatic brain injury.
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Home Ventilator Education
Understanding the terminology used for mechanical ventilators can be confusing to people with little or no experience in the medical field.
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Sleep Disorders and the Holidays
The Holiday season is upon us and everyone is gearing up for the fun - and ths stress. Holiday stress can mean less sleep. And it is hard enough for sleep-disorder sufferers to get enough quality sleep without the added holiday stress. Read about some
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Childhood Sleep Apnea Symptoms
Sleep apnea affects children as well as adults, causing symptoms ranging from snoring, bedwetting and trouble sleeping to hyperactivity and ADHD-like behavior problems.
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Sleep Apnea and Dental Mouthpieces
Sleep apnea symptoms may be prevented with a dental mouthpiece. The oral appliance fits into the mouth and prevents the back of the tongue from collapsing.
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How to Find Diagnosis and Treatment for Apnea?
This article helps guide the person suspected of or newly diagnosed with sleep apnea to locate nearby resources for evaluation and treatment. It also touches on how to approach and deal with your sleep specialist.
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Sleep Apnea - An Overview
Sleep Apnea is much more common then you think. You could be suffering from it. This article presents an overview of Sleep Apnea including a quizz of possible symptoms.
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HoseHeads, Unite!
Sleep activism has gained strength from the discovery of sleep apnea as a relatively common illness present among all classes and types of people. Many of those diagnosed and treated for this disease look back over their past medical history and see frequent instances of misdiagnosis and mistreatment by doctors ignorant of developments in the field of sleep medicine over the past 30 years. Also, we have become aware that the great majority of those afflicted with sleep apnea remain undiagnosed and untreated. The cause involves education of both physicians and the general public on sleep disorders.
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License to Kill
Everyone should remain aware that undergoing medical treatment involves real and extreme risks to the patient which are not shared to any significant degree by those doctors and other medical personnel to whom one entrusts one's life. Through negligence, oversight, or unavailable human error, medical mistreatment can kill with relative impunity. Therefore, it behooves the consumer of medical care to retain responsibility and control. In particular, people with sleep apnea live at risk of lethal interactions with the medical system, of which they should remain always aware.
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Reflux and Aspiration Pneumonia
This article discusses GERD and aspiration pneumonia in relation to children with HIE.
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Sleep Apnea and Obesity
Obesity is the leading cause of sleep apnea and you can reduce the symptoms and breathe easier by losing weight.
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Shift Work Sleep Disorder (SWSD)
In the United States it is estimated that of the nearly twenty million people who work some form of shift work, 25 percent suffer from Shift Work Sleep Disorder (SWSD). It is even worse for those who rotate through various shifts. Read about SWSD here.
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To Sleep...Perhaps to Dream!
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Where Do I Go From Here?
Guiding lights come in different shapes for all of us
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60 Year Old Woman Gives Birth To Twin Boys
A storm of controversy has emerged after a 60 year old Canadian woman has given birth to twins and a single mother of six gave birth to octuplets after IVF.
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Buteyko Breathing for Asthma and Lung Diseases
Buteyko breathing is a holistic treatment that patients with asthma, emphysema, or bronchitis can learn with the help of a DVD or Buteyko practitioner to breathe easier.
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