The Effects Of Sleep On Respiratory Diseases

3. Identify at least five signs or symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and star those symptoms that S.R. is having.

Thesis: Sleep Apnea is becoming more of a dangerous disease that more people are starting to be diagnosed with. It is extremely important that Sleep Apnea is emphasized so that more people are aware of it.

The factors used for diagnosing OSA were limited to overweight males in there 40’s; it is now known that OSA affects men and women of any age and children. The first sleep disorder was identified in 1956. The disorder was named “Pickwickian Syndrome” patients that suffered from this syndrome were all overweight and experiencing daytime sleepiness. The name Pickwickian comes from a Charles Dickens play “Pickwick Papers” one of the characters-Joe the fat boy-was so sleepy he fell asleep standing up (Dement 175). OSA was not discovered in the United States until 1970 when Dr. William C. Dement was asked by a colleague at the Stanford University Medical School to do sleep recordings on a group of Pickwickian Syndrome patients. The results of the all-night sleep study concluded that there was a significant amount of disruptive breathing through out the night. In 1965 a group of European researchers did a similar sleep study. At that time all of the studies of Pickwickian Syndrome were conducted on subjects during the daytime while the patients were awake and experiencing their daytime sleepiness. The European sleep study had found that patients stopped breathing for several seconds, many times a night, Dr. Dements had reached the same conclusions after his study showing that some patients stopped breathing for as long as 90 seconds per apneic episode this was a potentially deadly disorder. Unfortunately the Europeans discovery of this condition went

Being the first-born baby, I was very independent. Sleeping until noon and being attached to my pacifier was a daily thing for me. Since I slept so much, my mom kept a constant watch on me. One day she noticed that I wasn’t breathing like I should, so she took me into the doctor. My mom was told that I had sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is where people take short pauses, while breathing can last seconds or even minutes. The doctor suggested that my mom do sleeping tests on me, which was easy for her because I slept all the time.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious, potentially life-threatening condition. It is characterized by repeated cessation of breathing while sleeping, due mostly to complete or partial pharyngeal obstruction. Objectively, it is recognized by a combination of symptoms and laboratory results. These include repetitive apneas and hypopneas, which are accompanied by hypoxia, sleep arousals, and hemodynamic changes.9–12 Moreover, activation of the sympathetic nervous system during respiratory events potentiates vasoconstriction and often triggers increases in blood pressure and heart rate.10,13 Obstructive sleep apnea is also associated with several cardiorespiratory problems (e.g., loud snoring, loud gasps, and daytime breathlessness).14,15

Getting restful sleep is vital. During sleep, blood pressure and body temperature changes, while respiration and heart rate decreases. Sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) is defined by repeated interruptions in breathing and / or reduced respiratory flow during sleep. The most common symptoms include difficulty breathing, snoring, restless sleep, excessive daytime sleepiness, frequent headaches, enlarged tonsils and large tongue volume, and irritability. Sleep apnea can be mild, moderate or severe. If it's left untreated, sleeping apnea may lead to diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, obesity or depression. One common treatment is the use of sleep apnea devices.

Mental illness is also a factor to look at for differences because there seemed to be a greater number of people who had mental illness that also had obstructive sleep apnea compare to people without mental illness. More research was available on obstructive sleep apnea and some of the research suggested many people do not realize this medical condition is an issue. The problem is normally diagnosed when something significant happens, such as problems living everyday life, relationships issues created, or a medical event occurs. Sometimes a loved one will raise awareness of an issue to an individual suffering from sleep apnea through observations made like obnoxious, increasingly worse snoring or the loss of a job due to lack of sleep. Individuals seek medical support from a physician and usually go through testing in a sleep clinic to diagnose the sleeping disorder. Diagnosis is critical for obstructive sleep apnea because left undiagnosed the sleep disorder can lead to several medical problems which could even potentially be death due to lack of oxygen. Specifically if the airway is obstructed for long enough while sleeping, then a person could potentially suffocate from lack of air.

Imagine that a person is sleeping and all of a sudden they wake up and are unable to breath. It is a scary thing but this happens to millions of people each year. One of the causes of this is Sleep Apnea. This paper will help identify the disorder of Sleep Apnea, its symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment.

Childhood OSA has different clinical manifestations as snoring, witnessed apnoeas, labored breathing, restless sleep and others. (3) Nocturnal enuresis (NE) – i.e. intermittent nocturnal bedwetting in children ≥5 years old –is a complex problem that associated with increased prevalence in males, low socioeconomic status and educational level of parents, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), familial history of enuresis, or psychological issues as separated parents, sexual abuse, and death in the family.(4-7) NE has been recognized as a manifestation of childhood OSA. Alexopoulos et al (8) reported in their study that subjects with habitual snoring were at increased risk of primary NE compared to those without

Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) is a common medical disorder that is increasingly recognized in children – almost 30 million American children are living with SDB. SDB can range from frequent loud snoring to Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) a condition involving repeated episodes of partial or complete blockage of the airway during sleep.

With at least 25 million adults in our nation suffering from sleep apnea, the findings add to the importance of addressing sleep issues and disorders, and getting them treated as soon as possible. Characterized by include

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the common sleep disorder, occurs when the brain send signals to the muscles. Moreover, the airway is partially or completely blocked during sleep due to relaxation of the tongue and airway-muscles. People with OSA is commonly associated with snoring. Individuals with OSA can also result in excessive daytime tiredness, morning headaches, mood and behaviourial changes.

The aspect of vulnerability is a huge part of being human. This can come in many forms, including vulnerability with oneself. The main idea of the song “Sleeping Sickness” by City and Color is the self vs self battle that comes with anxiety and depression. “The worries that occupy the back of my mind” is an example of a synecdoche and demonstrates how thoughts can entirely take over one’s life. It suggests that his mind is occupied with these worries and therefore he can not focus on anything else. “Maybe I'll sleep when I am dead but now it's like the night is taking sides” shows how overwhelming thoughts that come along with both anxiety and depression can even affect one's sleep. When the day is not there to distract these thoughts they

Sample size: To observe a pressure difference of ± 2 cm WC for the observed mean oropharyngeal pressure during sleep, we required a sample size of 12 readings in each group for a two sided significance with a power of 80% and a Confidence Interval (CI) of 95%. Sample size was calculated based on the study by De Paoli et al10.

However, obstructive sleep apnea is just the opposite in which, it affects around two to four percent of kids’. The results of sleep