Sleep Apnea Masks Help Patients Breath While They Sleep
Hiding from a medical condition is not the goal of sleep apnea masks, although they can help a person hide from a rough night trying to sleep. Continuous positive airway pressure are what the sleep apnea masks provide, helping the person suffering from sleep apnea breath throughout the night. A person with sleep apnea may wake up hundreds of times during their normal sleep period and have no idea that it has happened. The masks are designed to provide continuous air to help stop them from waking up just to breath.
Many of the first generation sleep apnea masks were considered uncomfortable by the patients and too many times they refused to wear them regardless of the known consequences. Especially patients suffering from obstructive sleep apnea masks can help them breath and keep their airway open, also diminishing the volume of their snoring. Some complained about the size and the noise the machines that provide the continuous airway pressure, but their bedmate have said they would glad take the humming of the machine over their snoring any day.
Today, sleep apnea masks are available in many. more comfortable designs. Some of them are made to fit only over the person's mouth, leaving the hose open for breathing. Other sleep apnea masks cover the entire mouth and nose, insuring their breathing in constant throughout the night.
Dental Devices Do Not Always Work For Everyone
There are some sleep apnea patients who can wear dental devices to keep their airway open while they sleep. For them, the device may be just as uncomfortable as the sleep apnea masks, but when they can wake up refreshed in the morning without a sore throat from snoring and with their bedmate in a better mood, they agree it is a good alternative.
Persons who travel frequently used to have to either carry their large, bulky machines with them if they were going to spend the night away from home, or simply go without it for the duration of their trip. In addition to new designs of the sleep apnea masks, smaller, more portable forced air machines allow them to be packed in their suitcase and rest on a table beside the bed in the hotel or in a friend's home.
The ability to breath throughout the night without the fear of losing oxygen to vital organs and not irritating others with vigorous, often exceptionally loud snoring, should be enough incentive for persons to get used to wearing sleep apnea masks when prescribed by their doctor.
