People usually think that people who snore when they fall asleep must sleep well, snore loudly and sleep soundly.
In fact, snoring is not a good sign.
Severe snoring may indicate obstructive sleep disordered breathing syndrome (hereinafter collectively referred to as sleep disordered breathing) and will seriously threaten health.
Moreover, there are many people suffering from sleep breathing disorders, accounting for about one fifth of adults.
Therefore, people who always snore loudly must be paid attention to.
Snoring indicates poor breathing.
At least half of the people will snore in their sleep, with loud and low voices. For a long time, snoring has only been considered as a condition that will cause harassment to others.
Until the 1970s, Sleep breathing disorders have gradually been paid attention to by the medical community, Snoring, as its most common manifestation, It began to be regarded as a symptom. When breathing, Air flows in through the mouth and nose, Through the oral cavity, nasal cavity, throat and other parts into the trachea, Where in the middle of the process is not smooth, It is possible to make a sound. This kind of obstruction in some people may be an abnormality of the physiological structure itself in these parts. However, most people suffer from relaxation and collapse of soft tissues during sleep, causing ventilation obstruction. Of course, not everyone who snores has sleep breathing disorders. Generally, slight snoring does not pose a health hazard, but strong and irregular snoring is a problem.
Severe snoring requires early examination.
Imagine, if a person snores very loudly when sleeping, will there be a feeling that a large area of meat covers the air inlet? Will this cause hypoxia?
It is true, People who snore loudly, Often the respiratory tract resistance is especially large when sleeping, Often sleep is not good, sleep is easy to wake up due to lack of oxygen, and feel no spirit during the day, this may be [upper airway resistance syndrome]. More serious times, the respiratory tract is almost completely blocked by loose soft tissue, nearby people will hear the sleeping person suddenly even lost the sound of venting! After a few tens of seconds, there was another sound of his rapid breathing, then snoring again, and later stopped breathing.
If the oxygen concentration in the blood is monitored at this time, it will be found that the oxygen content in the blood of this person is obviously lower than that of ordinary people when sleeping, which is the hard evidence of lack of oxygen during sleep. This condition is called sleep apnea.Upper airway resistance syndrome is the early stage of sleep apnea. Both cases should be paid attention to and seek medical treatment in advance. Many large hospitals have carried out sleep medicine projects and even specialties, which can carry out professional sleep monitoring, which is also the main means to diagnose sleep apnea.
Sleep disordered breathing is seriously harmful.
Watching a sleep apnea person sleep with him will feel scary-snoring loudly for a while, It’s not alarmist that people with severe sleep apnea are at risk of sudden death in their sleep, and their total death rate is three times that of those without it. A person sleeps 30% of his life, and if he is in a state of lack of oxygen during these hours, there will be what problems? The first is the decrease of energy during the day, lack of concentration, easy drowsiness and dozing off.
The most typical consequence is car accidents-in the United States, the incidence of car accidents is 2-3 times that of ordinary people. Secondly, the risk of cardiovascular diseases is much higher than that of ordinary people.
Long-term hypoxia will cause vascular endothelial damage, inflammatory reaction, Eventually causing a series of problems, Including hypertension, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, heart failure, arrhythmia, thrombosis, stroke and so on. For example, some hypertension patients can’t lower their blood pressure for a long time. After treating sleep breathing problems, their blood pressure can be controlled within the ideal range. Also, diabetes and metabolic syndrome are also possible consequences of sleep breathing disorders.
Long-term hypoxia and inflammation lead to insulin resistance, which eventually leads to a series of problems such as diabetes, hyperlipidemia and obesity. In turn, the treatment of sleep breathing disorders will also improve the treatment effect of these diseases.
In addition, obesity and sleep disordered breathing are a vicious circle of mutual cause and effect, and the number of obese people suffering from sleep disordered breathing is far more than that of ordinary people. Therefore, weight loss is a very important part of the treatment of sleep disordered breathing.
Regular treatment of snoring is required.
As many people have found, When sleeping on the side, snoring obviously disappears or decreases, which is easy to understand. When sleeping on the side, loose soft tissue collapses to the side and is not easy to block the airway. However, this is not the fundamental solution, because most people will have natural turning movements when sleeping. Besides, for people with serious sleep breathing problems, sleeping on the side is also symptomatic.
1. Lifestyle interventions
In addition to losing weight, we should also change our bad living habits. Combine work and rest during the day to avoid overwork. Quit smoking and drinking, dinner should not be too full; Don’t stay up late, don’t drink strong tea and coffee before going to bed, especially stop drinking three hours before going to bed!
2. Oral appliance
It is a bit like the braces worn when orthodontic teeth are worn. This appliance helps the patient to extend the lower jaw forward during sleep, driving the soft tissue of the oral cavity to move forward, and plays a role in smooth breathing. However, this method is not effective for everyone, and it is easy to cause saliva outflow, dry mouth and joint discomfort.
3. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
This is a household ventilator, When the patient sleeps, CPAP breathing opportunity automatically pumps oxygen into the respiratory tract when inhaling, and maintains the respiratory tract open with appropriate air pressure to prevent collapse. CPAP is a very effective way to treat sleep respiratory disorders. As long as patients follow the doctor’s guidance and adhere to the standard use during sleep, they can live as healthy as others.
4. Surgery
Surgery is mainly used for patients with pharyngeal structure problems or nasal cavity lesions, but surgery may not completely relieve obstruction, and some patients still need CPAP treatment after surgery.
At present, there are no really effective drugs to treat snoring and sleep apnea, and only oral appliances and CPAP ventilators have been proved to be effective in medical devices. All kinds of related advertisements cannot be trusted.
In a word, sleep breathing disorder is a disease that needs attention and early intervention, and the trouble lies in that its manifestations are almost all related to [snoring in sleep], and snoring is the manifestation of sleeping soundly in the eyes of ordinary people. I hope this article can arouse people’s attention to sleep breathing problems.
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