Snoring And Sleep Apnea Affects More Than Eighteen Million Americans Today
The general term for a type of sleep disorder that is known as obstructive sleep apnea is snoring and sleep apnea, in which sleep apnea causes a person to stop breathing while asleep for as many as a whole minute, and even as frequently as hundred times in a single night. In fact, snoring and sleep apnea is a very common form of sleep apnea and the problem usually occurs when the muscles of the throat, tongue and even neck relax and thus create a blockage to the airway.
Snoring Is Not Sleep Apnea
However, snoring is not the same as sleep apnea, and in fact, is a sound caused by when the air vibrates in the rear of a person's mouth, nose and even throat, though it is also a symptom of another condition known as snoring sleep apnea. What's more, on its own, snoring is not an indication that a person has sleep apnea, and when you consider that almost half of the population in the world snores on occasion, it would indeed be a catastrophic thing if snoring and sleep apnea were one and the same thing.
Furthermore, snoring may occur due to a number of things including a less than healthy muscle tone in your tongue, alcoholism, and also enlarged tonsils. In addition, even if you have a particularly severe snoring condition, it is not in itself any indication as to the severity of your snoring and sleep apnea problem. However, the main indication of snoring and sleep apnea is when a person's snoring as well as breathing comes to a halt and when an individual has such form of breathlessness, that person may let out a loud gasp after which he will once more begin to breathe and snore again.
In any case, snoring and sleep apnea can result in serious effects and besides causing a lot of grogginess during the daytime because of not having had proper sleep at night, there is also a forty percent increase in chances of suffering from hypertension as well. In addition, snoring and sleep apnea can combine to also cause a person to suffer from a stroke, and even worse, there is also a thirty percent greater chance of suffering from a heart attack or even meeting with an untimely death.
Snoring and sleep apnea is also very prevalent in the US and it is believed, affects as many as more than eighteen million of its population, and worse still, because symptoms are mostly very general, the condition is often not even detected in time and so timely treatment cannot be given to the patient. However, snoring and sleep apnea can easily be diagnosed and given appropriate treatment depending on the severity as well as medical history of the patient.
