An appropriate guide to a Sleeping test for treating sleep disorders

1. An appropriate guide to a Sleeping test for treating sleep disorders

2. Before jumping onto the Sleep test let's get a hint about a sleep study first-  • What Is a Sleep Study? • The sleep study is a test done to record the data of your sleeping patterns and body functioning. It is recorded to figure out if you are suffering from any sleep disorder or not. It is done in a particular place or a lab. The study of sleep is also known as Polysomnography  • While undergoing the test, an ECG machine tests your rhythmic movements and brain activities. Sleep consultant finds out about your oxygen levels, heart rate, breathing patterns, and normal body functioning to know whether you have sleep disorders or not.  • These sleep studies have come up with some interesting facts that helped in curing sleeping disorders easily. 

3. What Does a Sleep Study Test For? • There are many sleep tests which people go through for allowing sleep disorders-   • Sleep apnea • Periodic limb movement or restless leg syndrome.  • Narcolepsy • Insomnia • Walking in sleep • REM sleep pattern disorder.

4. There are four kinds of sleep tests-  • Diagnostic overnight PSG  • It monitors the neural functioning of the human body while an individual is sleeping. You can fall asleep and your limb movements, heart rate, sleeping pattern, the eating pattern is monitored.  • Diagnostic daytime multiple sleep latency test (MSLT)  • It can help you in diagnosing narcolepsy and daytime sleepiness. It also measures how fast you can fall asleep in quiet situations. It monitors how deeply and quickly you can enter in REM stage during sleep.  • CPAP Titration • physicians commonly recommend going through CPAP or continuous positive airway pressure therapy for treating the following sleep disorders-  

5. Obstructive sleep apnea • Central sleep apnea • Hypoventilation • Typically, once the patient is diagnosed with any of these disorders he/she undergoes the CPAP study before undergoing the treatment.  • You’ll undergo this test the same morning you are diagnosed with overnight PSG. • Types of Sleep Studies • There are four kinds of sleep studies. • Diagnostic overnight PSG monitors your general sleep and certain body functions, including breathing, oxygen levels in your blood, heart rhythms, and limb movements.

6. Diagnostic daytime multiple sleep latency tests (MSLT)  • It can help in the diagnosis of narcolepsy and finding out about the level of seriousness of the disease. It measures out about the amount of sleepiness you face being in quiet circumstances. It also monitors how quickly and how often you enter the sleep stage called REM sleep. You’ll have this test the morning after a diagnostic overnight PSG.

7. Two-night evaluation PSG and CPAP titration sleep test One the very first night you will undergo the analysis and examination process. If the medical team finds out you have mild sleep apnea, the next night will be for figuring out the level of air pressure required and you'll be treated with the required pressure through a nasal mask specially designed for the patient.  Split-night- PSG with CPAP titration.  You will undergo this test if you are diagnosed with sleep apnea during the first part of the sleeptest, the second phase will help you figure out the level of CPAP required.