It’s terrible! Sleep 7 hours, apnea more than 400 times 39-year-old Mr. Wang is a civil servant, more than ten years to sleep has been snoring, the last six months more and more serious. After coming to the Sleep and Respiratory Clinic, after a night of sleep breathing monitoring, it was found that he slept for 7 hours a night and had as many as 400 apneas, with an average of 1 minute, and each pause lasting up to more than 1 minute Kushi. A specialized treatment plan was developed. “Now he doesn’t snore in his sleep, and his whole energy is much better than before.” Wang Jinrong, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Harrison International Peace Hospital Snoring is more serious in men. In medical terms, snoring is a manifestation of “obstructive sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome”. According to statistics, snoring is more serious in men, the ratio of men to women is 2/1. On the other hand, snoring starts earlier in men, it may happen after 20 years old, while in women, it mostly happens after 40 years old. If you have the following symptoms, be careful! Sleep snoring, open-mouth breathing, or even temporary stopping of breathing, repeatedly waking up during sleep, restless sleep; frequent nighttime angina and arrhythmia; headache after waking up, dizziness, high blood pressure in the morning; daytime fatigue, sleepiness, drowsiness or even falling asleep at work meetings or driving (personally experienced a patient who knew he had the problem of driving to sleep and generally did not dare to drive long distances, that time because of the emergency The matter had to drive, 30 kilometers away to buy 2 pounds of chili peppers, while driving and eating to prevent watching, but still fell asleep, almost had an accident); memory loss, slow reaction, work and learning ability: at least 30 times during the night 7 hours of sleep apnea and hypoventilation, apnea hypoventilation index greater than or equal to 5 times / hour, then we should highly consider obstructive apnea syndrome . Snorers are prone to hypertension and coronary heart disease Snoring is not a trivial matter, snoring not only causes snoring, memory loss, slow reaction and other symptoms, but also causes hypoxia and hypercarbia due to hypoventilation or apnea, leading to complications in the heart, lungs, brain and other important vital organs. In terms of treatment, firstly, reduce the weight to normal; secondly, once diagnosed, don’t get alcohol or tobacco at night; severe cases need to receive surgery or treatment with ventilator. “It is important to note that snoring surgery needs to be done jointly with multiple departments such as stomatology, ear, nose, throat, head and neck surgery, and neurology.” Once snoring patients need surgery, they must go to a regular large hospital for treatment.