16-year-old stop breathing while sleeping may be related to tonsil adenoid hypertrophy, progressive muscular dystrophy, mandibular retraction deformity and other diseases.
1. Tonsillar adenoid hypertrophy: when the tonsillar adenoids in repeated infections, allergies, inflammatory factor stimulation and immune hyperfunction and other roles, prone to hyperplasia, hypertrophy, sleep may sometimes happen to block the upper respiratory tract, so as to observe the disappearance of the oral and nasal airflow, manifested in the cessation of respiration.
2. Progressive muscular dystrophy: a group of hereditary muscle degeneration diseases. Clinical features are progressive aggravation of symmetrical muscle weakness, muscle atrophy, and eventually complete loss of motor function. During the progression of this disease, it can be manifested as 16 years old sleeping and sometimes stop breathing.
3. Mandibular retrusion deformity: the mandible manifests as a retruded deformity due to genetic or congenital developmental anomalies, resulting in a shortened anterior and posterior diameter of the pharyngeal cavity. When sleeping, the pharyngeal cavity may be occluded under the influence of factors such as the backward fall of the tongue root, and the phenomenon of oral and nasal respiratory arrest occurs.
When it is found that the 16-year-old stops breathing while sleeping, it is recommended to actively seek medical treatment and multidisciplinary systematic examination in order to clarify the cause and receive systematic standardized treatment as early as possible.