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Sleep Apnea

Potentially fatal sleep apnea is more widespread in the West. The sleeper stops breathing through out the night periodically. He will wake up gaping for breath only after he stops breathing for a few seconds. This process goes on hundred of times per night and the sleeper does not even realize it. It is usually more prominent in people who are overweight or have certain medical conditions.

Loud snoring and feeling tired after sleep are the main signs of sleep apnea. When a person with this disorder sleeps, the muscles holding the tongue relax and thus causing the tongue to flop back resulting the airway to be blocked for ten seconds or longer. These patients will eventually suffer high blood pressure, strokes, or death while sleeping.

Luckily this condition can be cured by drugs or surgery. Visit a specialist to have your apnea graft sleep study done and let the specialist decides the best course of treatment for you.

Another remedy for sleep apnea is the use of a CPAP machine which blows air into the persons' airways. This is usually performed with a full face mask or a nasal tube.

The CPAP machines can either of a fixed air rate or an automatically adjusting type which monitors the person's breathing and adjusts accordingly.

If you suspect you have sleep apnea, you should inform your doctor and have them arrange for a sleep study. This involves an overnight stay in a facility where they hook you up to a number of devices to monitor your breathing, heart rate, oxygen absorption, chest expansion and eye and leg movements.

With fixed rate CPAPs, the person needs regular sleep studies. If it is diagnosed and treated, it does make a significant improvement in the person's life. He will feel more awake in the morning and during the day. Moreover, people who share the same room with him will be able to sleep peacefully.

But in the East, most of those who died during sleep were men. It is believed that a female ghost approaches the sleeper and asks for marriage. If he refuses, or his parents, relatives, or friends refuse or stop the marriage, he is safe. If he agrees to the marriage proposal, then his consciousness goes with the female ghost and he dies during the sleep.

Men who had been approached for marriage in their dream always confirmed these women were beautiful and they were always from the neighborhood of those men. Have you ever heard of story like this? Please tell us.

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