Patient: suffering from rhinitis Sleeping at night with snoring, causing sleep deprivation.
Yu Bin, Department of Otolaryngology, Xiamen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine: From your description, you may be suffering from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and need to have a sleep breathing monitoring examination.
Sleep apnea syndrome has various clinical manifestations, one of the most common and typical symptoms at night is snoring, and those with serious condition will snore loudly whether in side or supine position, even during meetings or car rides. In addition, patients with frequent apnea at night are accompanied by abnormal sleep movements, insomnia, excessive dreaming, nightmares, polyuria and enuresis. During the day, the common manifestation of sleep apnea syndrome is drowsiness, that is, uncontrollable dozing during the day regardless of time and place, and even involuntarily going to sleep during meetings, reading and listening to lectures.
Rhinitis can cause nasal blockage, which further causes open-mouth breathing during sleep and aggravates the symptoms of snoring, so patients suffering from sleep apnea syndrome need to actively treat rhinitis if they have nasal congestion and other symptoms of rhinitis.