Sleep Apnea
At least two million Spanish adults suffering from partial or total obstruction of the airway during sleep, according to the Spanish Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervical-Facial Pathology Spanish (SEORL). In addition, a significant percentage of people who suffer without knowing it.
Obstructive sleep apnea much more common than at first seems, is closely linked to children and obesity, but also the presence of a strong and continuous snoring, can trigger this disease. It is therefore important that the person who suffers from continuous or clear is overweight, a medical test is performed in time to prevent disease or to undergo a medical or surgical treatment.
We tend to downplay the act of snoring. We believe that it is a fact that makes our body in a timely manner in response to a night we smoked or drank to excess, or the result of a pronounced fatigue due to physical activity.
The truth is that snoring can be the cause or origin of this disease so little known but who already have many people in our country: the sleep apnea.
To avoid this, among other things, we must learn to distinguish between occasional snoring and one that is repeated daily, intensely. In this case, we go to the hospital and ask for a medical test simple: polysomnography.
When the air intake is completely blocked, breathing stops. This annoying and dangerous obstruction, carries several consequences for the patient’s daily life. The most common is daytime sleepiness. Something very risky if, among other risky activities, a person with sleep apnea take the car every day, it could cause an accident.
The disturbing and often dangerous apnea, is the time in which it appears, the dream, which is our greatest period of rest and off of what is happening around us and, judging by the symptoms of apnea, also of what affects our health.
Other factors and common habits that can generate are overweight (especially in children), the use and abuse of alcohol, sedatives, sleeping, the very anatomy of the nasal passages and hypertension.
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Middle-aged women, the most commonly undergo facial surgery
Today there is a new patient profile with apnea or illness associated with a normal breathing difficulty, that of working women 35 to 45 years, drawing has to undergo surgery for health reasons, takes to get a rhinoplasty or facial reconstruction.
This new lawsuit, which claims to cure a disease more? Facial touch-ups? is part of the new trends in surgery, according to recent studies SEORL.
For years there have been researching what the best methods and treatments to enhance the quality of life of patients with sleep apnea. The momentum in otolaryngology has been great over the past 20 years, thanks to the incredible progress of science and good professionals that allow, among other things, faster diagnoses and more effective treatments.