Knowing the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea can change your life! This condition is very hard to diagnose. The usual symptoms take place when you’re fast asleep, and those that you do notice are often mistaken for other problems. When you are aware of the condition of sleep apnea, the symptoms that come with it,…
Everyone loves having the time to take a nap, so it can be hard to imagine what would be so bad about having a condition like primary hypersomnia and napping a lot. Unfortunately, primary hypersomnia is a very disruptive condition. The good news is it is very rare. People who think that they might have…
May times in a day we realize that we don’t find enough waking time to fulfill our daily needs and responsibilities. Shift work, family and social responsibilities, long commutes and emails etc. eat up a lot of our waking hours and thus to have some leisure time, we cut down our sleep. This loss of…
Sleep Apnea is a very common health condition experienced by millions of people around the world. There are several types of the medical condition that can affect an individual, but of them it is obstructive sleep apnea that is the most common, as well as oftentimes the most serious. Obstructive sleep apnea is caused when…
What is sleep deprivation? Studies prove that six to seven hours of sleep in a day is required by an average adult for normal health and daytime functioning. But if due to certain factors, a person is not able to get this minimum amount of sleep, then he or she is suffering from sleep deprivation….
This is a very common sleep disorder in which the individual has one- or multiple- pauses in their breathing, or even breathes shallowly when sleeping. These pauses in breathing can last anywhere from just a few seconds to a few minutes. They can occur thirty or more times within one hour. Usually, when normal breathing…
If you have been diagnosed with central sleep apnea you may be wondering what caused it to develop. There are many different central sleep apnea causes and it is rare that just one is the isolated cause. This type of apnea tends to mostly affect men over 40 who are also overweight. There are instances…
If your child is a restless sleeper or stops breathing while sleeping for noticeable periods, they may have central sleep apnea. Central sleep apnea in children was once thought to be harmless and treated as a phase to be outgrown; new studies have shown that the impact of central sleep apnea in children can adversely…