India, Aug. 27 -- Music director-composer Amaal Mallik is currently one of the contestants in the 19th edition of Bigg Boss. During one of the episodes, Amaal opened up about struggling with sleep apnea and using a CPAP machine to manage the symptoms. Here's everything you need to know about the condition and the machine Amaal used.

Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts while you are asleep. If you have this condition, your brain tries to protect you by waking you up enough to breathe, but this prevents restful, healthy sleep. There are potentially three types of this disorder, namely:

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