Snoring can be life-threatening, and experts can teach you how to avoid the pain of snoring. Sudden death in a dream is not only the “masterpiece” of the dream demon Freddy in the movie “Ghost in bed in the middle of the night”, in the real world, nearly half of the people do not realize that they sleep with death every night. A domestic sleep survey shows that 45% of people have sleep disorders, which seriously affect their quality of life and work efficiency, and are prone to complications of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, and even sudden death at night. Ear, nose and throat experts pointed out that snoring people should not drink alcohol, alcohol can aggravate the sleep apnea when snoring, enough to kill. In Guangzhou, three male employees of the security section of a unit died violently in a year one after another. Their common features are: over 40 years old, short and fat, snoring at night. They were all drunk until they were unconscious the night before the accident, and were found dead in bed the next day. After examination, one person had a cerebral hemorrhage, while doctors estimated that the deaths of three people were likely related to sleep apnea. Snoring without waking up or being suffocated alive. Tian Guangyong, director of the Department of Otolaryngology at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, said that most people only know that snoring affects others’ sleep, but they seldom understand the danger of snoring to their own health – sleep apnea syndrome. Xie Xiaorong, a physician of the department, introduced that snoring is caused by anatomical and physiological factors of human body, such as curved nasal septum, enlarged tonsils, low oral soft palate and loose tongue root. The physiological factors are: the tension of the muscles around the pharyngeal cavity decreases during sleep, the tongue root falls into the pharyngeal cavity causing narrowing of the upper airway, and the respiratory airflow blows the soft tissue to make snoring sound. The snoring is irregular, often terminating for a few tens of seconds after a frequent and loud snoring, and then starting again after a sudden loud snoring. According to Tian Guangyong, the deeper you sleep, the more relaxed your muscles are, the louder your snoring will be, which is why people with stressful and strenuous work love to snore. During snoring can be frequent apnea, each time can last as long as a few dozen seconds, serious people can be suffocated awake, then feel a very fearful choking feeling, “If you drink alcohol or take sedative, sleeping drugs, further inhibit the brain, people may not wake up, can not resume breathing, suffocated alive.” Snoring also affects the quality of rest. According to the introduction, snoring apnea in addition to life-threatening, but also affect the quality of rest, so that people wake up feeling headache, dizziness, fatigue and weakness, serious people can fall asleep while driving, eating and talking, so accidental casualties also occur. Snoring can cause brain damage, resulting in early onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Apnea causes lack of oxygen in the patient’s body, which causes excitement in the cardiovascular center, resulting in increased blood pressure and increased risk of arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and stroke. Many snorers will increase the number of night urination and urine volume. Reminder: “Stop snoring device” effect is very little. Experts say that the diagnosis of sleep apnea should be based on the patient’s medical history, physical signs and polysomnography monitoring to confirm the diagnosis, and the treatment mainly includes surgery, ventilator, drugs, electrical stimulation, the use of corrective devices and other methods, among which, the snoring will be greatly reduced after surgery, although some people still can not completely eliminate snoring, but that belongs to benign, the measurement of blood oxygen saturation is normal. It should be reminded that at present, various “stop snoring device” advertisements are flooding the media: some clip a ball on the back, forcing the patient not to lie flat, but only to lie on his side, which Tian Guangyong said might have a little effect of preventing the back of the tongue, but it is not obvious. There is also a device that clips in the nasal cavity, Tian Guangyong believes that it is completely ineffective, but adds to the discomfort of foreign bodies. Xie Xiaorong introduced a variety of professional oral orthodontic appliances for mild sleep apnea caused by jaw deformity, tongue hypertrophy, etc. effective, according to the patient’s oral condition and tolerance to choose the right product. Tips: Five tips to teach you to stay away from the pain of snoring. Tian Guangyong makes the following suggestions for people who suffer from snoring: 1. Smoking can aggravate respiratory symptoms, and drinking, even if not drunk, can loosen the pharynx and nasal cavity and lead to breathing disorders at night. 2, research shows that a 10% reduction in body weight, apnea will be reduced by 26%, therefore, obese people should actively reduce weight and strengthen exercise. 3, bedtime sedative, sleeping drugs are prohibited. 4.Take the side sleep position to avoid the tongue, soft palate and other structures to relax and fall back during sleep, which will aggravate the blockage of airway. 5, under the guidance of professionals to carry out breathing training, exercise the nasopharyngeal throat muscles, so that they are no longer flaccid. Own usually can try to open the mouth when deep breathing, to the oral capping force, can improve the muscle tone of the soft palate, the more you do, the better the effect.