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Question: Sleep Apnea breathing help?My daughter has been diagnosed with "Central Sleep Apnea", meaning she breeths normal when awake, but fails to breeth well when asleep. While sleeping her breething becomse very shallow, not enough to keep her oxygen level up. This causes numbness and eventually awakes her every hour or two.My question is: Are there breething exercises, or natural ways to cure this condition other than just treating the symptoms with oxygen injection or a positiive pressure air machine. She doesn't want to live with contraptions hooked to her the rest of her life. Any help would be much appreciated. The doctors we have taken her to only want to treat the symptom, not find the cause.
Answer: If she is slightly overweight she needs to lose some weight as the fat around the windpipe is pushing it closed when she is sleeping. But if she is thin she needs to see her Gp who will refer her to a sleep - clinic.I also suffer from apnea and my daughter complains about it, i will suddenly gasp for air and carry on sleeping and so it goes on and on. Happens more when i am stressed. Take care
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