Weight loss
- Losing weight in a natural way is the best treatment for people with Obesity hypoventilation syndrome. Daily exercise and proper diet should be taken seriously to achieve weight loss, it’s hard to do an exercise when you already have OHS because of the breathing difficulty, the said condition will make the person get tired easily. On this case, health expert advice is to do an exercise little by little and from time to time until your body can cope with it and you can extend your time and exercise routine. This natural way of losing weight is only applicable to those patients just started to have a Pickwickian syndrome. Losing weight is very difficult and it takes a long time but it’s the only best way to treat OSH.
- Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) is a procedure performed on obese people. In US and some other countries, a person is only allowed or qualified to have this surgery if they have a body mass index (BMI) of 40 or higher (a 5'4" height should have a weigh at least 233 pounds), or a BMI of 35 (a weight of 204 for a 5'4" height) or greater with serious obesity-related health problems, such as type 2 diabetes.
Positive airway pressure
- Positive airway pressure (PAP) is a treatment process using respiratory ventilation machine to help patients with breathing difficulty, the respiratory ventilation machine help brings more oxygen to the patients to maximize his oxygen intake especially on sleep time when Obesity hypoventilation syndrome is much worse.
- Tracheotomy is a surgical procedure given to patients with severely worse breathing condition, the whole surgical process is to insert Tracheotomy tube on the neck opening a direct airway. Tracheotomy is a process to help the patient breathe without using the mouth and nose.
Info on Positive Airway Pressure Machine
