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CPAP Rental for Sleep apnea
When you are prescribed a CPAP therapy Hospital’s Sleep Unit will contact you to arrange a trial of the CPAP machine. CPAP is a machine that treats obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). CPAP stands for continuous positive airway pressure. Normally when you go to sleep, your throat muscles hold your airway open. If you have OSA, your throat muscles relax too much when you are asleep. This causes pauses in your breathing.
Often people are not aware that this happens. Untreated OSA can affect your long-term health. It can cause problems with blood pressure, diabetes, heart attack, stroke, and heart failure. What can CPAP do for my sleep? A CPAP machine blows air through your nose (or nose and mouth) into your throat area. The airflow supports your throat muscles and keeps your airway open. This prevents pauses in your breathing and helps you sleep better.
Sleeping better stops you from feeling as tired throughout the day and improves your overall health. CPAP is only a treatment for OSA, not a cure. There is currently no cure for OSA. But losing weight and making some lifestyle changes may help to improve your OSA and quality of sleep.
What is involved in a CPAP Rental?
- You will have an appointment at Hospital’s Sleep Unit.
- The Sleep Unit will give you a CPAP machine to try for two weeks. They will also fit you with a mask.
- Don’t adjust the CPAP machine’s air pressure yourself.
- The Sleep Unit will make a second appointment for you. If you live outside Christchurch, they will make other arrangements.
- During your second appointment, the Sleep Unit will check how things are going.
- You will take a monitor home to measure your overnight oxygen levels. This will make sure your CPAP machine is working the best for you.
- Once everything is looking good, you can own a CPAP machine to use long term