If you wake up in this situation, you probably sleep without knowing it

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If you wake up in this situation, you probably sleep without knowing it

70 % of people who make sleep apnea completely ignore it. What if this was also your case? How do you know that, when you sleep with a closed fist, you really were touched by this major risk factor in heart, depression and fatigue? According to data from Association Santte Respiratory France, in France, Sleep Apnea concerns three million people. To find out if you are suffering, it is necessary to be vigilant about the messages that your body reaches you during the day.

“Sleep apnea itself is underestimated by non-specific symptoms such as snoring, fatigue, day-time sleep, often due to their slow progress,” Dr. Mustafa Smel explains, “An ENT doctor at the Piti-Sampearia Hospital, for fear of chronic illness and binding treatment, often diagnose. Delay management.

Sleep Apnea: Look at this sign that is not deception

Who never felt tired during the day? Who never slept during the conversation? Who never ate after a long evening? These trivial symptoms complicate awareness about the disease. However, the most category symbol to identify sleep apnea is sleeping. It is still necessary to determine its seriousness. To measure the level of drowsiness during the day, sleep experts pass a specific test: the appewth’s drowsiness scale (ESS). Participants should respond to a series of claims by classifying the degree of drowsiness from 0 to 3 depending on conditions. Ess assesses the following conditions related to drowsiness:

  • Sit and read
  • Watch tv
  • Sitting in a public place and passive
  • Sitting as a passenger in a car for an hour
  • Lie to rest in the afternoon
  • Sit and chat with another person
  • Sitting peacefully after lunch (without consumption of alcohol during meals)
  • Sitting in a car that is arrested for a few minutes due to traffic

Once the participants responded by assigning this note to each of these confirmation, they achieve these results:

  • Between 1 and 6 digits: General Sleep
  • Between 7 and 8 digits: average drowsiness
  • Between 9 and 24 digits: Unusual drowsiness (possibly pathological)

“The first sign is SlynessComments Dr. Mustafa Smell. It is characterized by difficulties in permanent sleeping, meditation and concentrations permanently. Those who present this symptom, feel that they are waking up badly, unable to think and do things during the day. Therefore drowsiness is monitored during the day, as it causes a decrease in vigilance, which can represent a danger, especially for drivers of heavy freight vehicles, continues to the hospital doctor.

This is not because you snore that you are apneaic

Are you snoring? Although it can intervene with people around you, this noise translates only the vibrations of sleep -relaxing throat clothing. Yes, this can result in your health such as sleep apnea. But be careful, not all snoring, not, Dr. Mustafa warns the smel. This means that people who snore do not necessarily make sleep apnea (and fortunately). Doctors recall that some snoring has no other misdeeds but to interfere with people around them. To find out if the respiratory noise of exciting in sleepers reflects sleep apnea, experts practice exams and searching assessments to determine Apnea/Hypopnea Index (IAH)“This is the score found at the end of our exploration,” said the ENT doctor. We practice ventilator polygraphs or polysomanographs (sleep measures, breathing, oxymetry and cardiovascular systems) that allow us to measure the patient’s IAH and determine the severity of sleep apnea. »If IH is:

  • Between 5 and 15, the sleep apnea is light;
  • Between 16 and 30, the sleep apnea is moderate;
  • More than 30, sleep apnea is serious.

Reference

  • Dr. Special interview with Mustafa Smell, Brick Doctor at Piti-Samatrier Hospital
  • Union data Respiratory health france
  • Johns MW. A new method for measuring day sleep: APVW Sleepness Scale. Sleep 1991; 14: 540-5. PUBMED ID: 1798888