Snoring ZZZ
After the epidemic came, Xiao Wang went out less, he could eat and sleep, and people gained a lot of weight. Recently, his wife complained that he snored when he slept, which affected the sleep of his family, and often had apnea. Xiao Wang himself also felt that although he had slept a lot recently, he was always sleepy, weak, and spiritless during the day, and he loved to forget things at a young age. After being reminded by a doctor friend, it was suggested that he go to a sleep monitor, saying that he may have sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, Xiao Wang did not understand, is not snoring? What's so fussy about this, how is it sick?
In fact, simple snoring is indeed not too risky, and once there is apnea, it is a very dangerous disease. Sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome refers to a disease of apnea and hypopnea caused by upper airway collapse and obstruction during sleep, clinical manifestations include night sleep snoring, accompanied by apnea, daytime sleepiness, memory loss, dry mouth in the morning, increased number of nocturnal urine, etc., due to apnea causing repeated episodes of nocturnal hypoxia and hypercapnia, and can lead to hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other multi-organ, multi-system damage, and even sudden death at night. Such examples are not uncommon, especially in middle-aged male obese people, upper airway structure abnormalities such as nasal septum deviation, turbinate hypertrophy, adenoid hyperplasia, tongue hypertrophy, pharyngeal stenosis, etc., with a family history of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, long-term heavy drinkers, long-term smoking and other people, the incidence of this disease is significantly increased.
(Source: Tencent Medical Code)
If you find that you have the above symptoms and are a high-risk group, you should go to the hospital as soon as possible for multi-sleep monitoring and examination, clarify the diagnosis, and actively treat to prevent the occurrence of these complications. Treatment can be weight loss, sleep on the side, otolaryngology consultation, if necessary, surgery to treat nasopharyngeal diseases, sleep using noninvasive airway positive pressure ventilator and other methods.
Xiao Wang learned that snoring had such a big harm, and immediately went to the hospital for sleep monitoring, which was really severe sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome. Under the advice of the doctor, Xiao Wang slept and put on a ventilator, and the mental head returned to its former appearance, and began an active weight loss exercise to strive to get rid of the ventilator as soon as possible and restore a healthy body.