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Pill may help OSA

Posted by snowman on June 26, 2002 at 16:46:44:

There is a way for a pill to help OSA. If you have OSA and other conditions such as type II diabetes or heart problems that may cause general inflamation it may be possible for a pill to actually help elliminate blockage. If the pill can reduce or eliminate the inflamation then OSA should improve or possibly even go away in some cases.

So I take back what I have said before, that there is no way a pill can help OSA.

If inflamation is responsible for osa then it would also help explain why surgury often fails to correct OSA.

The reason I concluded this is the vast improvement in my OSA because of using a device (not a pill) that reduces inflamation thru stimulation of nitric oxide in the blood. If the device can do it I suspect a pill could be made to do the same thing.

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