Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) stop breathing or interference may occur when sleep befall anyone. But how to know you're having a sleep disorder is OSA?
Simple way to detect a person's likelihood of OSA in some statement that can be used as an indicator in measuring how much you have suffered possibility of OSA.
This test can be done on your own. Test results can be used as a basis if will do Sleep Study
Here are 10 statements that can help you detect the presence of OSA harassment yourself:
1. Often feel headache when waking up in the morning.
2. Often find it difficult to breathe because of wakes.
3. Excess weight.
4. Often feel sleepy and struggle hard to stay up all day.
5. Often woke up with dry mouth.
6. Snoring during sleep.
7. Much sweating during sleep.
8. Wake up earlier than the ideal bedtime.
9. Lie down without being able to sleep more than 30 minutes before bedtime.
10. Often feel sad and depressed because he could not sleep.
The statements of the above are given a score of 1 if according to your state, and 0 if not appropriate. Once aggregated, if you score more than 3 then you likely suffer OSA.
Indicator is only just simple test. To see if you're really suffering from OSA, you must do the inspection sleep or sleep study at the Sleep Laboratory.
There are many factors to be evaluated in the sleep study includes recordings of brain power, electrical activity of the eye, chin muscle activity, tibia is anterior muscle activity, heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, air flow, and the effort to breathe from the chest muscles and abdominal muscles. Everything is done to measure the quality of sleep a person to be known with certainty whether or not suffering from OSA.
With a sleep study can also known OSA suffered still include lighter weight, or are already, so we can determine the exact type of medication.
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