Secondhand smoke is a dangerous mixture that consists of more than 7,000 chemicals, hundreds of which are known to be toxic — 70 of them are even carcinogenic. Clearly, if you smoke, you should do everything in your power to protect your loved ones from secondhand exposure. It is particularly vital to protect children. This blog post is going to discuss just one risk that secondhand smoke presents to young ones — sleep apnea.

Throughout recent years, both casual observations by medical professionals and formal research have found a connection between anxiety and sleep problems. In fact, one study found that anxiety is present in roughly half of people with sleep apnea. Is it just a coincidence that these do conditions are often found in the same people, or is there some sort of cause-and-effect relationship between anxiety and sleep apnea in Fort Worth? Let’s talk about this important topic.