Obstructive sleep apneoa (OSA) mostly remains under-reported. Tackling this hidden sleep disorder is the biggest hurdle and people have low or no awareness they may be experiencing it. For this reason, many with this condition remain undiagnosed. The general assumption that snoring is harmless, and therefore do not consult with their GP or an ENT specialist.
Sleep apnoea has various symptoms, including daytime sleepiness and being easily tired. Many people put this down to an excessive workload. In reality, it can happens due to underlying obstructive sleep apnoea. The most common way to know if you might have sleep apnoea is that your partner notices you stopping breathing whilst sleeping for a few seconds. This pause in breathing is usually followed by a loud breathing in of air sound before breathing returns to normal for a while. These frequent pauses in breathing are known as apnoeic episodes.
Who is prone to sleep apnoea? If you have any of the following:
Diabetes
Hypertension
Large or thick neck
Being overweight
High alcohol intake
Taking sedating medicines
Hypothyroidism
Small lower jaw
Large tonsils
If you are affected with sleep apnoea for any reason, you need to consult with a GP or an ENT surgeon. A common mistake is to ignore poor sleep, which in the long run raises your risk of developing serious conditions such a high blood pressue, heart attacks and strokes.
I offer a service caring for those with suspected or diagnosed sleep apnoea. Surgery can be helpful, along with use of breathing machines and teeth guards. Only an ear nose and throat specialist surgeon will be able to fully examine your upper airway and help pinpoint the cause of your problems. This is carried out at The Saxon Clinic which is an ENT hospital in Milton Keynes.
Examinations are usually conducted by myself, and further tests may be needed by the nationally renowned ResMed centre in London.
Given current circumstances, The Saxon Clinic have employed a variety of measures to ensure safety from Coronavirus for those attending the hospital. Your safety from the ongoing pandemic is our top priority. Hence, you can book your appointment without a second thought to be treated by the best ENT specialist Northamptonshirehere in The Saxon Clinic.
ar infection, if untreated, could lead to damage in hearing ability. The tympanic membrane (ear drum) of the ear is an important part in giving you the a sense of hearing. However, the sense of hearing gets interrupted if there is a build up or accumulation of fluid in the middle ear.
This fluid can be very thin and watery, and sometimes a cream colour discharge. This happens when you have an ear infection. If a person gets a nose or throat infection, which is more common in winter, then infections spread easily and lead to ear infections. Children who are prone to tonsillitis and large adenoids also suffer more frequently with ear infections. In a situation like this, the infection needs to be staved off by the body’s immune system or with the intervention of an ENT surgeon through use of antibiotics and ear cleaning using specialist equipment. Ear infection can also lead to hearing loss. If you feel you are experiencing a case of an ear infection, get in touch with an ear doctor Milton Keynes by contacting us.I offer treatments that manage ear infections due to chronic discharge of pus and blood from the ear.
Ear infection can give painful symptoms and if you experience this, approach an ENT hospital in Milton Keynes as BMI The Saxon Clinic. This hospital facilitates high-quality and patient-focused ENT healthcare services. It has raised the bar of quality care to many patients from the UK and abroad. Clinical excellence is its major attribute and uses cutting-edge technology to treat patients. By contacting us about your ear infection, you will be treated by internationally trained ear nose and throat specialist surgeons, giving you the best patient experience at our hospital.
Patients suffering from hearing and speech impairments can hear and also hear their speech through cochlear implant surgery. Even children with congenital profound deafness (deafness from birth) can opt for cochlear implant treatment.
When it comes to cochlear implants, they are an electronic device that assists in hearing sound. Cochlear implants convert sound signals into electrical impulses, which in turn stimulates the cochlear nerve in the inner ear. Though the parts of the inner ear do not work, the implant electrode is placed on the nerve endings to directly stiulate the nerve and then the brainstem up to the brain.
This is how a cochlear implant replaces the non working transductive system of hair cells of the cochlea. This device bypasses the non-functioning inner ear. The implant comprises two parts, namely internal and external. The internal part is surgically implanted into the bone behind the ear. A part of the implant goes inside the cochlea thereby remains invisible from the outside. The external part is held on by magnets and patients can wear this through out the day except at certain times (sleeping, bathing and swimming).
In this regard, as your ear doctor Milton Keynes is a highly recognised source and has the expertise for successfully conducting cochlear implants. To parents’ surprise, surgical intervention has enabled children to hear, understand conversation and developing their language skills.
However, children with congenital hearing deformities require early intervention by an ENT specialist and Audiologist. Another advantage of cochlear implants are that children generally are able to join and remain in mainstream schools. Contact our doctor if you want to restore a special sense of hearing.
Does your child snore at night? Do you observe voice change in your child? Is your child not able to eat properly? If the answer to these questions is yes, then best get an ENT surgeon to examine the throat. It might be a case of tonsillitis. If the tonsillitis and adenoids get infected, it leads to fever, throat pain, neck pain, and trouble in swallowing. Observe whether your child is having a regular tonsillitis problem or not. If it is regular, it indicates a problem with chronic tonsillitis. In the initial stage, you can control tonsillitis in your child by administering antibiotics from your GP and painkillers. However, in case of recurrent tonsillitis, the only permanent treatment is to remove the tonsillitis and adenoids.
As your ENT surgeon in Milton Keynes, I provide tonsillitis diagnosis, treatment, and surgery services. After due surgical and medical assessment using technical equipment recommended for specialists, I can arrange the right type of surgery for you if required.
I provide this service at BMI The Saxon Clinic (ENT hospital in Milton Keynes). The surgery is relatively painless using newer techniques such as coblation tonsillectomy – which is a fully bloodless surgery.
Therefore, please contact myself as your ENT consultant to discuss treatment plans to deal with tonsillitis issues your child may be having. I will perform your child’s surgery discharge your child on the same day (daycase surgery). In the vast majority of cases, an overnight stay is not required, although if needed, surgery would take place elsewhere (a NHS facility).
BMI The Saxon Clinic as a super-speciality hospital has everything to offer, and meets expectations by patients. Be it the latest technology, or an experienced ear nose and throat specialist surgeon, you would get all the necessary facilities at The Saxon Clinic, your ENT clinic for Northamptonshire.
Moreover, in my ENT clinic serving Northamptonshire, I am equipped with all the requisite advanced technology for diagnosing and administering treatment to sinusitis patients. Diagnostic tests involves:
Mucus culture
Endoscopy
Allergy testing
CT scan for the sinuses
For instance, you may require for nasal endoscopy to be done. In this case, as your ENT surgeon, I would anaestheise the nasal cavity of the patient with a spray anaesthetic. No needles are required. Then the endoscope would be used to view the internal structures of the nasal cavities and sinuses. Following this, I will be able to get more insight for signs of sinus obstruction and identify any hidden nasal polyps. This is a brief summary on the way endoscopic nose examination is carried out. I will be able to assist in the diagnosis and treatment of your sinus condition and arrange treatment, leaving a concerned patient back to normal within a few days. Therefore, in case you feel unnecessary pain and discomfort due to sinusitis, do contact us. We will give you suitable treatment medical and surgical remedies to alleviate your sinus problems.
