Sentences with phrase «apnea caused»

My youngest daughter had obstructive sleep apnea caused by a malformation in her larynx and aggravated by acid reflux and inflammation.
It is not caused by my weight but rather sleep apnea caused me to gain weight.
Sleep apnea causes a person to stop breathing — for periods of at least ten seconds — hundreds of times a night.
But that's exactly how Mike Miner, whose obstructive sleep apnea causes him to routinely stop breathing during the night, feels about his continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
Sleep apnea causes low T. Endurance Training (i.e. long distance running) reduces T between 15 and 40 %.
It is believed that sleep apnea causes systemic inflammation.

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They may have very big tonsils where their tonsils are causing breathing problems where they may be choking during sleep that beyond snoring it is actually a little bit of sleep apnea.
Presentations: Dr. Palmer has given international, national and state presentations on the importance of breastfeeding for the proper development of the oral cavity, airway and facial form; infant caries; why tight frenulums need to be addressed; the signs and symptoms, cause and prevention, and treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea; and basics of dentistry not taught in dental schools.
Structural problems and sleeping apnea are the common causes of chronic snoring.
Cornucopia Institute has done studies that show, in some cases, DHA can cause diarrhea, gas, apnea, jaundice, and death in some infants.
From enlarged adenoids, the nasal congestion in children causes the right sided heart failure and the chronic sleep apnea with insufficient oxygen levels.
Caffeine is a medication that is used if the bradycardia is caused by apnea (a pause in breathing).
One common cause of obstructive sleep apnea is enlarged tonsils or adenoids (tissues located in the passage that connects the nose and throat).
His reflux was so horrible it was causing asthmatic symptoms like his father's reflux did, including sleep apnea.
Physical problems, such as sleep apnea, can also cause your child to cry out.
Sleep apnea is a disorder where routine breathing is interrupted during sleep and is typically due to an underdeveloped nervous system, but there could be other causes.
The apnea is significant as it leads to hypoxemia (oxygen blood content is less), which causes the brain damage.
The main causes of sleep apnea are obesity and neuromuscular disease.
Apnea can cause the «B,» bradycardia, which is a decrease in the baby's blood oxygen level and a heart rate under 80 beats per minute.
This is a medical condition in which your baby's frequent spit up is causing pain and possibly other associated medical problems such as weight loss and apnea, and may require treatment.
Nasal congestion may sound like a simple issue, but it can in fact prove to be extremely dangerous for a newborn infant, because it would not only cause fatigue and irritability, thereby hampering normal growth, but also cause sleep apnea, which causes temporary moments of not breathing when the newborn is asleep.
Obesity commonly causes sleep apnea in people.
Secondly, rule out sleep apnea which can cause early rising!
You may be surprised to learn that a common cause of early rising is undiagnosed sleep apnea, along with allergies, the common cold, and GERD.
Stress that causes big changes in their sleep schedule (like traveling to a different time zone, sleep apnea, or fever) can also be contributing factors.
The second important point I wanted to mention something that often gets missed is obstructive sleep apnea, usually caused by enlarged tonsils and adenoids, and it can cause early rising.
Sometimes this study is used to make sure nothing else is causing the night terrors, such as severe snoring or sleep apnea, which can only be proven with a sleep study.
Hypoxia causes apnea and swallowing, not breathing or gasping.
Enlarged tonsils and adenoids (the glands in the throat just behind the nose) are the most common causes of sleep apnea in children.
Apnea is usually caused by immaturity in the area of the brain that controls the drive to breathe.
Possible cause for concern: Some infants experience central sleep apnea, which causes them to stop breathing for up to 20 seconds.
The under - developed brain of baby born at 31 weeks may cause apnea (loss of breathing) that subsides as the baby grows and usually doesn't require long term treatment / medications.
Sleep apnea is a condition that causes brief interruptions in breathing during sleep.
Left untreated, sleep apnea can cause several problems associated with poor sleep quality.
Sleep apnea is characterized by disrupted sleep, caused when the upper airway becomes obstructed by soft tissue, cutting off oxygen.
People with MS face an elevated risk of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a disorder in which the throat collapses during sleep, causing the patient to repeatedly stop breathing for periods of 10 seconds or longer throughout the night.
«We expected an increase in the glutamate, because it is a chemical that causes damage in high doses and we have already seen brain damage from sleep apnea.
Not all sleep deprivation, of course, is caused by disorders such as apnea.
No one was hurt, but the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) ruled that the pilot's undiagnosed sleep apnea was likely one of the causes.
Common causes of pulmonary hypertension include congestive heart failure, other heart diseases, birth defects of the heart, chronic lung disease, obstructive sleep apnea, and certain autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis.
Snoring without evidence of obstructive sleep apnea may be an independent risk factor for hypertension and the daytime behavioral problems mentioned above, but how snoring alone causes problems remains unknown.
In children, the most common cause of sleep apnea is enlarged tonsils and adenoids, and treatment consists of surgical removal of the tonsils and adenoids.
The prospective study examined the relationship between motor vehicle crashes and two common causes of sleep deficiency — insufficient sleep duration and obstructive sleep apnea.
This can be done using a procedure called «drug - induced sleep endoscopy» (DISE), in which stepwise doses of anesthetic doses are given to put the patient to sleep and reproduce the airway obstruction causing apnea.
«New anesthesia technique helps show cause of obstruction in sleep apnea
Overall, people with severe sleep apnea have triple the risk of death from all causes as compared with those without the disorder.
Previously, researchers suspected that the laryngeal chemoreflex (a protective reflex of the airways that causes apnea and abnormally slow heart rate) is the starting point of SIDS.
In obstructive sleep apnea, the air stops in the throat, causing the child to choke, wake up briefly to open the airway and then go back to sleep.
Along with short stature, the condition can cause difficulty walking; fluid buildup around the brain; and apnea, or the temporary inability to breathe.
The study by researchers at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Salt Lake City also found that Wolff - Parkinson - White syndrome is a long - term cause of atrial fibrillation in addition to traditional risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure, sedentary lifestyles, and sleep apnea.
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