There can be increasing problems with breathing the spouse may report. So if we use snoring as a marker for people with sleep apnea, The problems with diagnosis therefore are increased incidence of snoring with aging and increased incidence of brief apneic spells. Well, they have periods of apnea. They have hypopnea where they re not breathing as deeply. They have disordered Treatment for obstructive sleep apnea.
Weight loss is very effective and it doesn t have to be actually a large amount of weight.
Actually, it can have a real significant impact. Uveal palatal pharyngoplasty or the surgery. So if you ve got somebody who s got just a little bit of snoring, you can laser them, you can do a UVP and you can stop their snoring but that isn t what we re trying to do with sleep apnea surgery. Help for snorers. Avoiding anything that is going to increase flaccidity like alcohol, tranquilizers, antihistamines.