Have you or your friends ever been these symptoms before?
Snoring, waking during the night with choking. (Image 1)
Feeling not enough sleep, even last night could sleep whole night long. (Image 2)
Excessive daytime sleepiness, easy to get fatique. (Image 3)
Morning headache. (Image 4)
Feeling of dry mouth and lips after waking up in the morning. (Image 5)
If yes, these symptoms are the alarming signs of the condition call Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), which causes you stop breathing or breath not enough during the night. The major cause is the narrowing of the airway depends on the anatomy in each person. When you sleep, the muscles within this area are more relax then make more smaller airway, resulted not enough air into your lung, and then effect to not enough oxygen into your brain.
How is important, if not treated?
- Bad sleep quality, waking up often and not get deep sleep.
- Low attention and concentration, Dementia.
- Risk for Stroke.
- Heart attack and arrhythmia.
- Uncontrolled hypertension.
- Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus.
- Mood swing, Risk for Major depression.
How is diagnosed? OSA can be test by sleep test, which is 2 types:
- Screening sleep test: convenience, easy and can be test anywhere when you sleep.
- Comprehensive sleep test (Polysomnography: PSG): All details of sleep parameters, one night inside the Bangkok-Phuket Hospital with the caring of sleep technician whole night long.
Inspection process
What is the treatment?
- The major treatment of OSA is Positive Airway Pressure therapy (PAP therapy), multiple types, depending on the severity of the disease.
- For more information, please contact Bangkok Phuket Sleep Center at 1719 ext. 3750-1
