Sleep Issues: The Effect of Allergies, Asthma & Related Conditions

Program Summary: Many allergists do not know the effects of allergic diseases on sleep and how sleep affects allergic conditions. Sleep-disordered breathing is worsened by chronic nasal congestion. Asthma, chronic nasal congestion, and sleep-disordered breathing interact to worsen each other. This connection between abnormal breathing in sleep and asthma is important to understand in order to treat these conditions. The interactions between these conditions will be explained in this lecture.