National Sleep Apnea Awareness Day
The American Sleep Apnea Association calls upon all who are concerned about sleep apnea-health professionals, patients, and their advocates-to make special efforts on April 18 to alert the public to this serious, chronic, life-shortening disease. An estimated 18 million Americans or more are believed to have this disease, and three-quarters of them don’t know it.Untreated [...]
How to Stop Mouth Leaks During CPAP
If you use a CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) machine to reduce the unwanted effects of sleep apnea, but wake in the morning still feeling tired, with a dry mouth or swollen nasal passages, you may be experiencing air leakage from your mouth during sleep. If the mouth leak is significant, it can reduce the [...]
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