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What Causes Sleep Apnea?
When a person has sleep apnea, they will stop breathing up to
hundreds of times a night, interrupting vital sleep cycles. Oxygen
saturations can drop to critical levels. Oxygen deprivation leads
to cardiac issues and high blood pressure. Learning, memory and
concentration are all adversely affected. Risk factors are factors
that may lead up to and eventually result in the manifestation
of sleep apnea. Causes are the reasons sleep apnea occurs. Many
times risk factors and causes are synonymous.
There are several risk factors and causes associated with this
disorder. Some reasons for the disorder are correctable. Causes,
like the short circuit in central sleep apnea where the brain
fails to tell the body to breathe, may need lifelong management.
A sleep test will diagnose which type of sleep apnea a patient
has and a thorough physical will reveal other possible causes.
Then a doctor can discuss a proper treatment plan. This may include
seeing an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor, and/or a dentist.
Preventable risk factors include smoking, obesity, and alcohol
or drug abuse. If a patient has one of these risk factors, they
could possibly improve their sleep apnea or even stop their need
for treatment by changing their lifestyle and personal habits.
Patients should strive to lose weight, quit smoking, and refrain
from alcohol and drug use before bed.
Smoking irritates the airway causing it to swell. Obesity contributes
to extra fat being deposited in and around the throat and oral
cavity. Alcohol or drug abuse causes the body to relax so completely
that it loses muscle tone, causing the airway to collapse and
the brain is in such an altered state that it cannot tell the
body to tighten the airway muscles. Sleep apnea sufferers should
never take sleep aids without consulting a doctor.
Some causes cannot be controlled. Causes such as anatomy, family
history, aging, enlarged tonsils and adenoids, and being male
all contribute to the condition. If your head and neck shape is
stout and squat and if your mouth is smaller than normal, sleep
apnea may occur. Since anatomy is hereditary, a family history
is another risk factor a patient can't change. Aging brings on
changes in the brain's signals which affect the throat muscles
and waking habits. Enlarged tonsils, tongue, and adenoids can
take up space and decrease the size of the airway. Although being
male is considered "changeable" now, genetics still
affect conditions, like sleep apnea, that are associated with
male DNA.
One must consider underlying medical causes as a reason for sleep
apnea. Sleep apnea could be a symptom instead of a primary disorder.
Downs Syndrome, severe heartburn or GERD, vocal cord paralysis
and other disorders are all primary conditions that can cause
breathing cessation, obstructions in the airway or airway collapse.
Careful and thorough management of the primary illness can reduce
the severity of nighttime sleep-related apnea.
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