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Suggest Alternative Treatment For Sleep Apnea

one major thing as she is from another state , currently in Bangalore she is getting continuous dry cough she is not able to sleep at night ... please reply how to stop this continuous dry cough ..at least she can sleep properly at night. and nearby some physician(cardiology) given some medicine , there is no change with her. Please suggestMy mother is 57 years old and she is bit fat , some sounds coming while respiration from a nose. i have shown her to doctor and doctor asked to test for the sleep test and then they told that is sleep apnea and referred for CPAP machine ...so my question without CPAP machine is there any other way to make her proper as CPAP machine is too expensive .
Fri, 29 Jul 2016
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Hello thank you for writing us here.
Sleep apnea can be prevented by changing sleeping posture.
The back of head should be little lower than the shoulder level while sleeping. Also if she has fat around the neck, she can also sleep on her sides with knees and back little flexed and and also you can buy tablet/ syrup of terbutaline at bed time.
She would be comfortable with this.
God bless you and your dear mother.

Best regards,
Dr Gunjan
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Suggest Alternative Treatment For Sleep Apnea

Hello thank you for writing us here. Sleep apnea can be prevented by changing sleeping posture. The back of head should be little lower than the shoulder level while sleeping. Also if she has fat around the neck, she can also sleep on her sides with knees and back little flexed and and also you can buy tablet/ syrup of terbutaline at bed time. She would be comfortable with this. God bless you and your dear mother. Best regards, Dr Gunjan