There are no drugs to treat sleep apnea, but several treatments are effective for sleep apnea when administered alone or in combination:
- Changes related to lifestyle – to eliminate factors that cause or aggravate the sleep apnea. If apnea is attributable to obesity, weight loss often solves the problem. In addition, sleep lying on its side, quitting smoking, avoiding alcohol and sedatives (these substances aggravate snoring and affect control of breathing) are useful measures to alleviate sleep apnea.
- Applying a constant positive pressure air – a well fitting face mask connected to an air pump, can administer a constant airflow in the airway to prevent their collapse and clog. Until now, the treatment that has proved most effective, whatever the cause of sleep apnea. Patients often find a significant difference after one or two nights.
- Dental Orthotics - these orthotics are worn overnight to prevent pharyngeal tissue from closing, or the language to sink, the airways remain free and overnight. This strategy is suitable for treatment of OSA.
- Surgery - as a last resort, the surgeon can remove excess soft tissue in the airway. This intervention is useful to correct snoring important. In the case of sleep apnea, it is only effective in 50% of cases, approximately.
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