According to @Elephant Entertainment, on October 12, Olympic champion Yang Wei updated his social feed, saying that he was "once a strong athlete, but now he has a ventilator". Yang Wei revealed that he recently began to snore, and the doctor's diagnosis was that he could not breathe in when he slept because of respiratory problems, he said that this situation was as long as 6 minutes, the situation was very dangerous, if you hold your breath for a while, it may be life-threatening. Yang Wei felt unbelievable about this, but he had to follow the doctor's advice and wear a ventilator for life.
Actress Chen Qiaoen also appeared on the hot search for sleeping snoring, and afterwards Chen Qiaoen said that he suffered from severe sleep apnea, and if it was deep sleep, he would stop breathing 25 times an hour, each time for more than 50 seconds, so he had to undergo surgery.
What is sleep apnea?
Many people may have such an experience: snoring when sleeping, sometimes not picking up a breath, will suddenly be awakened. This is actually a typical manifestation of sleep apnea syndrome.
According to Urban Express, Chief Physician Mao Xuefeng, a general practitioner at Kang Dafu International Hospital and the first batch of general practitioners in Zhejiang Province, introduced that sleep apnea syndrome refers to the collapse of the upper respiratory tract that patients have repeated attacks during sleep, resulting in apnea and hypopnea.
In medicine, every 10 seconds of not breathing is called apnea, and sleeping 7 hours a night apnea reaches 30 times, which is sleep apnea syndrome, which will lead to decreased sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, lack of concentration, memory loss, etc. in the short term, and in the long term, the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases will increase, and even sudden death.
At present, sleep apnea is generally believed to be a systemic disease, an independent risk factor for hypertension, closely related to coronary atherosclerotic heart disease (coronary heart disease), heart failure, arrhythmia, diabetes, and at the same time an important cause of sudden death and road traffic accidents, which has become a serious social problem.
"Sleep apnea syndrome is closely related to obesity, from the perspective of gender, the incidence of men is significantly higher than that of women, and the prevalence of women after menopause will increase significantly." Director Mao Xuefeng said that sleep apnea syndrome is also related to abnormalities in the upper airway, such as nasal obstruction, tonsil hypertrophy, throat narrowing, tongue hypertrophy, etc. In addition, children with adenoid hyperplasia and tonsil hyperplasia may also cause snoring; Middle-aged and elderly people are prone to snoring due to muscle relaxation and collapse; Others can also snore because of maxillofacial strictures or sinusitis. At the same time, long-term heavy drinking, smoking, and use of sedative and hypnotic drugs will also lead to increased morbidity.
Chief physician Mao Xuefeng said that many people think that snoring is not a disease, such a concept is wrong, severe snoring may even lead to death from suffocation.
What to do if you snore for a long time?
Snoring is very harmful, especially persistent snoring, which often causes apnea, also known as apnea syndrome. Doctors said that compared with adult snoring, children's snoring is also very harmful, often caused by tonsil and adenoid hypertrophy. Snoring can cause repeated sleep apnea, causing severe hypoxia in the brain's blood, which can induce high blood pressure and even sudden death. It is understood that about 170 million people on the mainland suffer from apnea syndrome, of which 670 million are moderate to severe and need to seek medical help.
To alleviate this situation, you can choose to lie on your side, quit smoking and alcohol, lose weight reasonably, treat rhinitis, etc.
"If you have a long-term history of snoring, it is best to go to the hospital for a sleep monitor." Director Mao said that sleep monitoring can record the nighttime sleep of the human body, which is an important examination for the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome and an important reference index for evaluating the treatment effect.
"If the monitoring results show that there is indeed a sleep disorder, measures should be taken to intervene in time. The most important thing is to lose weight, control weight, and reduce bad living habits, such as smoking, drinking, staying up late, etc.; Try to lie on your side when sleeping".
At present, the most common way to treat sleep apnea syndrome is to wear a home non-invasive ventilator, commonly known as a "sleep ventilator", while sleeping.
Director Mao introduced that the working principle of the "sleep ventilator" is to continuously enter the patient's pharynx through the air supply hose and nasal (mask) mask to forcibly keep the patient's upper airway open and airway unblocked, so that the patient can breathe normally during sleep and will not affect sleep due to apnea.
In addition, adjusting diet, losing weight, and strengthening exercise are also important means of treatment. As for people with simple snoring, it may be a physiological problem, and the diameter of the tracheal lumen may be smaller than that of the average person, which can be solved by oral appliances.
Source: Party social accounts, @大象文娱, Urban Express