Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Xue Renzheng
Correspondent Wang Hui Li Yuqun Bai Tian
"Snoring" is not unusual, when a person is in a state of sleep, the muscles are relaxed, the respiratory tract becomes narrower, and when the air flow passes through the narrow part, it produces a vortex, causing vibration, which is manifested as snoring. Even many people think that snoring represents "sleeping incense", is this really the case?
March 21 is World Sleep Day, so let's talk about "snoring."
Snoring like this is not a good night's sleep, and it may also "choke to death"!
"Sleeping at night often snores without regularity, terminating for tens of seconds after a frequent and loud snoring, and then suddenly making a loud snoring sound and then starting again... Often woken up, sweaty, with a terrifying feeling of suffocation..." If someone is "snoring" like this, be aware – it could be obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS).
Lin Min, deputy chief physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (hereinafter referred to as "The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University"), introduced that Sleep Apnea Syndrome (SAS) is a sleep disorder in which breathing stops during sleep, which refers to more than 30 apneas that occur during 7 consecutive hours of sleep, with more than 10 seconds (including 10 seconds) per airflow interruption, or an average of more than 5 times per hour of low ventilation (respiratory disorder index), Clinical syndromes that cause chronic hypoxemia and hypercapnia.
Ouyang Shunlin, chief physician of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Third Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, introduced that sleep apnea syndrome can be divided into central, obstructive and mixed types, of which obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is the most common.
Lin Min reminded that if you drink alcohol or take sedative sleeping drugs before going to bed, it will further inhibit the respiratory center, and in severe cases, you will not be able to resume breathing and will be choked to death.
Of course, not everyone who snores suffers from sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is followed by a silent pause in breathing, suffocation, or wheezing after snoring, and people with sleep apnea usually have the following symptoms:
Snoring at night, breathing stoppage, suffocation
Increased nocturia and decreased libido
Morning headache, inattention, memory loss
Daytime drowsiness, tiredness and fatigue
Grumpy, irritable, insomnia
In severe cases, I will fall asleep suddenly at work, and even fall asleep while eating or driving
The incidence is 5 times higher in men than in women! There are also a variety of complications
"'Snoring' is no small thing!" Lin Min stressed that if the above discomfort has occurred, it is necessary to go to the respiratory medicine department or sleep specialist of the regular hospital in time, and the doctor will make a clear diagnosis after systematic assessment and improvement of sleep breathing test.
It is understood that the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome accounts for one-half to one-third of sleep disorders, and the prevalence of over 65 years of age is as high as 20% to 40%, of which male patients are five times more than female patients.
"Due to snoring during nighttime sleep, the human body is in a state of hypoxia, causing excitement in the cardiovascular center, resulting in increased blood pressure and accelerated heart rate, which greatly increases the incidence of angina, myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction." Ouyang Shunlin introduced, "Medical clinical research has found that the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in people who snore for a long time is much higher than that of people without snoring. ”
He reminded that middle-aged men, obese, smoking, bedtime drinking, sedative hypnotic drugs, oral and nasopharyngeal lesions, and people with cardiovascular and cerebral nervous system diseases are high incidence and high-risk groups of snoring.
Proper adjustment of sleep patterns can reduce symptoms
For patients diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, it is necessary to try to quit smoking and alcohol, obese people lose weight and control diet, adopt a favorable sleeping position, adjust the pillow height appropriately, and take a side-lying sleeping position, so that the snoring situation can be reduced.
In terms of treatment, there are two types of non-surgical treatment and surgical treatment. It is understood that non-surgical treatment includes the administration of non-invasive ventilator continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilation (first-line treatment) and other treatments to improve symptoms, greatly improve the quality of life of patients, and avoid tragedies caused by sudden death or other serious complications.
"The purpose of surgical treatment is to reduce and eliminate airway obstruction and prevent the soft tissues of the airway from collapsing." Ouyang Shunlin introduced that since the vast majority of snoring is caused by obstruction of the upper respiratory tract such as the nasopharynx, the specific surgical method should be determined according to the location, severity and general condition of the airway obstruction, and the cause of the upper respiratory tract obstruction is relieved by surgery: such as adenoids, tonsillectomy, nasal surgery and so on. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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