Warnings; Diseases that come out of sleep

Snoring, for a long time in literature has been rendered as one of the honorable images of the brave and chivalrous people who sleep, such as fierce Zhang Fei, fat Li Kui, snoring like thunder after falling asleep. Admittedly, the soft, even sound of airflow that accompanies an exhalation and an inhalation is undoubtedly a sign that people are sleeping peacefully and deeply. However, rough, irregular, loud, ear-piercing airway vibration sound, not only can make the neighbor is not peaceful, but also heralded the rise of respiratory airway resistance, airflow is not smooth. Behind the phenomenon of increased airway resistance and even irregular alternation between obstruction and opening during sleep, there is a great danger to human physiological health, which has received more and more widespread attention. Medical doctors have recognized that sleep disordered breathing is the upstream source of many chronic diseases, and is an important factor that seriously affects physical and mental health and quality of life. Due to the spread of dietary structure and poor lifestyle, the obesity rate of the population has increased, and the incidence of various types of sleep breathing disorders, especially obstructive sleep apnea and hypoventilation syndrome, has risen significantly, and modern medical research has proved that stubborn snoring with repeated sleep apnea is a potentially dangerous disease, which is medically known as “Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hypoventilation syndrome (OSAHS). OSAHS has been emphasized by clinicians in various departments, and has become an emerging cross-cutting and marginalized discipline by undertaking research, diagnosis and treatment of this common, prevalent and harmful pathological state from different aspects. One third of a person’s life is spent in sleep, and sleep is very important for human growth and development, recuperation and storage, thinking and memory, regulating nerve and endocrine functions and improving the immune system. Healthy sleep is one of the hallmarks of a healthy body, and despite the fact that we experience sleep every night, our understanding of sleep is very limited. Snoring and apnea have been shown in countless clinical examples to seriously affect the quality of sleep, becoming a potential killer at night and causing serious distress to those around us. For example, we often overhear such talk around us and may have friends complaining about it in private, such as a lady saying, “My husband snores like thunder when he sleeps at night, which is really annoying, causing me to have insomnia and no peace of mind at night.” Another example is: “My husband’s snoring at night is really scary. Often, after a loud snoring session, he would suddenly lose his voice, only to be seen holding his breath for a long time, twitching all over his body and turning purple, which scared me so much that I kept on calling out to him and pushing him to wake him up for fear that he would die, and I was afraid of this every night.