MND-RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS

SUMMARY

1. Often the first signs are regularly waking with a headache (due to nocturnal hypoventilation, resulting in hypoxia and hypercapnia) and daytime somnolence, secondary to disordered sleep.

2. Eventually patients report dyspnoea on exertion, then at rest.

3. BiPAP may be used to assist weakened respiratory muscles, thereby improving sleep duration, quality and efficiency, and energy levels.

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