Posted by mellow on March 17, 2012, at 21:51:15
In reply to Sleep apnea causes brain damage (hypoxia induced), posted by LostBoyinNCReturns on March 17, 2012, at 10:26:07
Hypoxemia does cause brain damage. The good news is that around six months after CPAP treatment the frontal region of the brain can start to repair itself. There was an article on webmd about this last year where they did MRI's before and after treatment and the brain was healing and cognition was getting much better in the patients on CPAP.
COPD patients have the opposite problem in that they can not exchange gases properly and can not rid themselves of CO2. They get what is known as CO2 narcosis and can certainly act psychotic or lose their orientation to reality or thier setting.
Breathing is crucial!
mellow
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