睡眠 呼吸暂停
Overview
睡眠呼吸暂停是一种疾病,当你睡着时,你的呼吸会被打断10秒或更长时间. These interruptions may occur hundreds of times a night, causing you to gasp for air and disrupting your sleep.
There are two main types of sleep apnea:
- Obstructive sleep apnea. This is the most common type of sleep apnea. 它的特征是在睡眠时鼻腔和喉咙阻塞或变窄. 病人 tend to wake up repeatedly to gasp for air.
- Central sleep apnea. 这种类型的睡眠呼吸暂停被认为与大脑正常呼吸信号的故障有关. 血液中的二氧化碳含量上升,这可能会导致你醒来.
Our approach to sleep apnea
加州大学旧金山分校, 我们的睡眠医学专家为睡眠呼吸暂停等疾病提供全面的服务和治疗, 失眠, 猝睡症, periodic limb movement disorder, restless legs syndrome and 打鼾. 我们有一个专门设计的睡眠测试实验室,在舒适的环境中提供尖端的诊断护理, hotel-like setting for patients' overnight evaluations. Accredited by the American Academy of 睡眠 Medicine, our sleep center sees more than 2,000 patients each year.
治疗睡眠呼吸暂停可能包括生活方式和行为的改变, such as making changes to lose weight, sleeping on your side or stomach (rather than your back), and avoiding alcohol before bed. 最有效的治疗方法是持续气道正压通气(CPAP), 其中包括睡觉时戴着一个连接着空气输送设备的口罩来帮助你呼吸. 对于一些睡眠呼吸暂停患者,我们可能会考虑使用牙科设备或手术来重新定位颌骨.
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迹象 & 症状
Common 症状 of sleep apnea include:
- Restless sleep
- 响,重 打鼾 often interrupted by silence and gasps
- Drowsiness or fatigue, caused by the lack of sleep
- Headaches in the morning
- Irritability, forgetfulness, mood or behavior changes
- Anxiety or depression
如果不治疗睡眠呼吸暂停,它会导致严重的健康问题,例如:
- Hypertension or high blood pressure
- Heart disease, heart attack and stroke
- Psychiatric 症状 such as depression
- Impotence and lack of interest in sex
- 记忆丧失或其他精神处理问题,也称为认知功能障碍
诊断
If you think you might have sleep apnea, 你的十大赌博平台排行榜可能会根据你的症状做出诊断. In addition, an overnight evaluation 通过睡眠研究可以评估你的睡眠问题的严重程度和原因.
在你家里或睡眠实验室进行的夜间睡眠研究中, 当你睡觉时,你的呼吸和其他身体功能会受到监控.
In a sleep laboratory such as the UCSF 睡眠 Testing Laboratory, tests, called polysomnograms, monitor your heart, 肺, 大脑活动,眼球运动以及呼吸模式, blood oxygen levels and body movements as you sleep.
在家里, 便携式监测仪可以测量血液中的含氧量, volume of air flowing through your nose when you breathe, 你的心率和胸部运动可以表明呼吸时所付出的努力.
治疗
睡眠 apnea rarely goes away without treatment. 治疗包括生活方式的改变和行为的改变, such as losing weight, sleeping on your side or stomach and not on your back, 睡前两到三个小时不要喝酒.
If those efforts fail, the most effective treatment is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). 口罩覆盖着你的口鼻,并连接在一个设备上,该设备在你睡觉时连续泵出空气. Air flowing into your nostrils helps keep airways open.
许多患者觉得戴口罩不舒服,于是放弃了治疗, but with practice, 你可以学习如何调节面罩,适应气压. 在找到最适合你的面膜之前,你可能需要尝试多种面膜.
New devices also are being developed to improve comfort:
- 增湿器. CPAP设备泵出的空气可能会导致鼻道和喉咙干燥, sore tongue and nose bleeds. A CPAP humidifier helps alleviate the side effects.
- 鼻枕. CPAP鼻枕比传统口罩小,可插入鼻孔, making breathing more comfortable.
- Pressure relief. Exhaling against air pressure can be uncomfortable. 一个设备, called CPAP pressure relief, 吸气和呼气时自动调节气压. 当你开始呼气时,这个装置会降低气压, 然后在吸气时弯曲到治疗水平,以获得更好的舒适感.
Other treatments are:
- 通过迫使下颚向前打开喉咙的牙科器械.
- 耳鼻喉科十大赌博平台排行榜或头颈外科十大赌博平台排行榜通过重新定位或移除鼻子组织来打开呼吸通道的手术, throat and jaw.
- 口腔和颌面外科十大赌博平台排行榜可以通过手术重新定位你的下巴来打开你的喉咙.
加州大学旧金山分校健康医学专家已经审查了这些信息. 它仅用于教育目的,并不打算取代您的十大赌博平台排行榜或其他医疗保健提供者的建议. 我们鼓励您与您的供应商讨论您可能遇到的任何问题或疑虑.