Obstructive sleep apnea

Obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep disorder, which causes breathing to stop and resume repeatedly during sleep. While we sleep, the throat muscles keep the airway open. If these muscles relax, the airway narrows, causing breathing difficulties. If it narrows a little, the most common consequence is snoring, but if it narrows a lot, it can block the pathway, preventing breathing.

It is a pathology that affects a large part of the population, consciously or unconsciously, and that can affect both children and adults of both sexes.

What can cause apnea?

• Being overweight or obese
• Age (more frequent in advanced age)
• Alcohol consumption
• Tobacco use
• Nasal congestion
• People with a short lower jaw
• Vegetations

What types of apnea are there?

• Obstructive sleep apnea: When the airways are blocked during sleep because the muscles in that area relax.
• Central sleep apnea: When the brain stops sending signals to the throat muscles and they stop working.
• Mixed sleep apnea: Cases that begin with a central apnea and then progress to an obstructive apnea.

The most common treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea is CPAP. It is a continuous pressure device that helps to open the airways, allowing air to pass through, and thus perform the activity that the muscles in the area, which when relaxing, are not doing.

The device consists of a mask that can be cumbersome and annoying at bedtime.

For this, special pillows have been designed, CPAP pillows, which due to their shape allow the user to sleep on their side without being bothered by the mask and they can rest.

You can see it in the following link: NASAL CPAP PILLOW

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