If you frequently snore and feel sleepy during the day, you may experience a condition called snoring disorder or “sleep apnea”. While this is probably also a side effect of an illness asthma and diabetes, sleep apnea is often not diagnosed as “a hidden epidemic”.

What Actually Disorders Snoring or Sleep Apnea (OSA / Obstructive Sleep Apnea)?
Generally, the muscles that control the tongue and soft tissues of the palate will keep the airway open during sleep. If the muscles are too relaxed, the airways become narrowed and this resulted in people snore. If the airway is narrowed, will lead to difficulty in breathing. Sometimes, the respiratory tract to be closed at all so that the person stops breathing or has become what is called “sleep apnea disorder”. This can last for ten seconds or more. This can happen repeatedly even hundreds of times during sleep.

If you often experience sleep apnea, then we will try to be able to breathe, making the brain and heart work harder. If from night to night sleep disturbed like this, then the body will experience a kind of fatigue that affects quality of life, work and friendships. Our partner may also often noticed during sleep and see the symptoms of sleep apnea in ourselves, in which snoring was silent a moment later, and then maybe come back with snoring snoring very loudly and followed a long, deep breath, and breathed again.

How to Recognize Sleep Disorders Snoring or apneu (OSA / Obstructive Sleep Apnea)?
The symptoms can be recognized for the disorder snoring or sleep apnea (OSA / Obstructive Sleep Apnea) is as follows:

1. Sense of excessive sleepiness during the day – Most people who suffer from snoring or sleep apnea disorder feel very tired during the day. They can even fall asleep while working, driving, is discussing, reading or watching TV.
2. Snoring is loud – Most people who suffer from snoring or sleep apnea disorder with loud snoring. Often interspersed with spontaneous breaths long and fast.
3. Easily offended – due to lack of sleep and stress to lead a normal life, people with snoring or sleep apnea disorder often became irritable. More serious consequences associated with OSA, including depression, high blood pressure, serious heart problems, sexual problems, memory loss, intellectual deterioration and headaches in the morning.

Anyone at risk of the disorder Snoring or Sleep Apnea?
Patients with snoring or sleep apnea disorder reaches 10% of the adult population. Can also be found at various ages ranging from newborns to adults, both men and women.

Serious Risks To Your Health?
Recent research indicates that snoring and sleep apnea disorders are closely associated with serious diseases. The treatment is ignored can present a risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and depression.

1. More than 35% of people who have the disorder sleep apnea snore or suffer from high blood pressure, which increases the risk of heart disease. 
2. Significantly, 83% of patients suffer from sustained high blood pressure even though they drank three or more types of drugs, also suffer from snoring or sleep apnea disorder
3. Nearly 70% of people who had suffered a stroke, suffer from snoring or sleep apnea
4. Someone who suffer from snoring or sleep apnea have an accident driving a ratio of seven times higher compared with no disorder.
5. OSA or sleep apnea is associated with a nearly five-fold increased risk of cardiovascular disease regardless of the age, body mass index, systolic & diastolic blood pressure, and smoking habits at this time.

Conditions Can It Treated?
The most common therapy for the treatment of snoring or sleep apnea is the use of nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), where treatment does not require medication or surgery. Tool CPAP air flow in a certain pressure through a nasal mask whose size can be adjusted so as to ensure the comfort of therapy. Air pressure is supplied as “air cast” which serves to keep the airway open and prevent blockage of the airway.

If you or your family feel any symptoms of the disorder is snoring or sleep apnea, ask your doctor to refer or refer you to a sleep clinic or hospital examination which has the facility to determine whether you suffer from snoring or sleep apnea disorder is.