FAQ for sleep apnea
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What is sleep apnea?
Sleep apnea is a respiratory dysfunction, not infrequently, with systemic repercussion.
Is it a serious illness?
It would not be a disease, they are very varied and now, the diseases or pathologies that can determine it or even be that dysfunction, the cause of true ailments.
What symptoms does it present and who is at risk of suffering it?
As almost always something that affects the human being, the symptoms, as it could not be less, are common for many processes and in the case at hand, the symptom princeps, due to the intermittent interruption of the passage of air, via air in its search lung, can be manifested especially in the day to day of the adult, by others more noticeable to own and strangers: irritability, drowsiness, fatigue, lack of concentration and competitiveness, snoring, cardiopulmonary arrhythmias and innumerable, etc.. All born, can suffer at any stage of his life, sometimes by malformations and / or congenital deformities or apparent tonsils and / or adenoids and non-smokers, drinkers, frequent uncontrolled obese and also, anyone, who is in the environment of the metabolic syndrome (look for).
How is apnea treated?
Above all, based on a correct diagnosis, which is not always easy and that is not only responsible Primary Care physicians: also Generalists, Dentists and Stomatologists. The collaboration of the Family, the Society in general and Entities and Estates is required (DGT: accidents). Already, of facultative Pulmonologists, Cardiologists, Endocrinologists, Neurophysiologists, Otolaryngologists, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and many other Specialties, that can and should adhere to the monitoring and control of these patients and their complex medical-surgical treatment.
Disclosure article sent to Topdoctors on September 7, 2014
What is sleep apnea?
Professor Dr. Don Francisco Hernández Altemir
