Do you have permanent daily drowsiness and fatigue?
You will surely have heard friends and acquaintances telling you that they are suffering from daily drowsiness. Drowsiness almost on a permanent basis. You may also suffer.
This is usually due to sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a disease affecting 5% of the general population, which is already known since the decades.
It is characterized by the presence of breathing (sleep apnea) and sleep awakening, and during daytime it is accompanied by daytime drowsiness, difficulty concentrating, irritation, but also by cardiovascular disorders, obesity, diabetes, etc.
Experts warn that the disease must be fought as it can be extremely dangerous for the patient's life.
The syndrome, however, seems to be strongly related to the occurrence of both work and road accidents. A recent study concluded that apnea, when left untreated, increases the risk of a car accident by 2.43 times. Thousands of Greeks suffer from sleep apnea.
All doctors associated with sleep medicine say early diagnosis should be a target for every primary care physician to recognize symptoms early and refer patients to specialized centers (sleep labs) for diagnosis and application treatment, which helps with breathing, such as cpap devices and special intraoral splints.
