CSA happens when the brain fails to send signals to our breathing muscles. With this condition you might have a difficult time getting to sleep or staying asleep. This cause happens most with heart failure, and also stroke. Some common risk factors of CSA are, being older because people age 65 or older are most likely to have CSA, and being male because they are most likely to have it.
There are many treatments for sleep apnea. Lifestyle changes, such as avoiding alcohol, lose weight, sleep on your side instead of your back, and if you smoke, quit. Another treatment is a mouthpiece. This will allow your lower jaw and tongue to adjust so that they will keep your airway open while you sleep. If your doctor recommends it, a dentist or orthodontist can make custom-fit plastic mouthpiece for treating it well. Another treatment is a breathing device. CPAP, also known as continuous positive airway pressure, is the most common treatment for sleep apnea. With a mask that fits over your mouth and nose, air from the machine slowly blows into your throat and the pressure from the air helps keep the airway open while sleeping. The last treatment is surgery. Surgery helps to widen the breathing passages.
The next sleeping disorder is called Narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder of sleep regulation that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. It usually occurs during any type of activity at any time of day. This occurs in mostly ages 15 through 25 but can become apparent at any age. To this day the cause of this condition is not yet known, some think it has to do with genetics and others believe that it may be an infection. .
There are many symptoms for narcolepsy. The main ones are, excessive daytime sleepiness, which normally happens first in narcolepsy, next is cataplexy, which is a sudden loss of muscle tone, then there is hypnogogic hallucinations, which a person has bizarre, frightening dream-like experiences when falling asleep, sleep paralysis is next, it last for a few seconds and it is a temporary inability to move during sleep-wake transitions, and the last is disturbed nocturnal sleep which means waking up repeatedly throughout the night.
