Sleep Apnea

A more kind of assisted care treatment for sleep apnea is a continuous positive air pressure machine. So it's a machine that basically you can wear while you're sleeping that continuously pumps air into the respiratory system to relieve that pressure of breathing oxygen to the brain. So that's a more maybe extreme or assisted form of treatment.

The most extreme form of treatment for sleep apnea is surgery. So these are usually things like a tonsillectomy, where they're removing things that are blocking areas of the throat. And these can occur in usually either extreme cases for adults or in children. Sometimes they'll do a tonsillectomy, but it's a very difficult surgery to recover for, so typically a self-treatment or hooking someone up to a CPAP machine is the first option.

So there's three main courses of treatments for sleep apnea and I'm going to make kind of just three separate videos detailing each one. The first for maybe less serious cases or cases caused by an individual's weight in terms of like a more self-care treatment is just losing weight usually so exercise and improving your diet in some cases actually has shown to help individuals overcome sleep apnea.