Recently, Mr. Wang always felt dizzy when he woke up in the morning, his memory was not as good as before, and his endocrine disorder was also present. The hospital checked all over again, and finally found out that it was snoring that caused the trouble.
Mr. Wang is actually a sleep inhalation disease, which is a disease caused by any cause of sleep hypoxia, mainly including sleep apnea syndrome, snoring, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, asthma and pulmonary fibrosis, congenital diseases of the lung, thoracic deformities, pleural disease and alveolar hypoventilation syndrome. Diseases of the central nervous system and skeletal muscle diseases can also cause sleep hypoxia, such as central sleep hypoxia and weakness of whistling muscle contraction.
If someone snores loudly while sleeping, people are often accustomed to it, thinking that snoring will at best disrupt the peace and quiet of the night, disturb the sleep of those around them, and damage the relationship with their roommate or spouse. In fact, it is not just that, snoring is likely to be a sign of sleep apnea at night. This sleep apnea syndrome occurs most often in people between the ages of 30-45. According to U.S. survey data, 25% of men and about 15% of women have habitual snoring, and the prevalence of this disease increases after age 35. There are 24 million people with the disease in the United States, which has a population of only 200 million.
Sleep apnea syndrome is a clinical syndrome caused by repeated pauses in inspiration during sleep at night, resulting in a series of pathological changes such as hypoxia and carbon dioxide retention. Domestic and international clinical statistics show that all patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome have varying degrees of snoring. It has a considerable threat to health, not whistle let him play.
The factor of the formation of snoring is because the narrowing of the inspiratory tract, the air can not pass smoothly, friction to the nasal cavity or soft tissue around the inspiratory tract and produce vibration, a sound. The louder the sound, the narrower the inspiratory tract, the more flimsy the surrounding tissue, gradually blocking the passage of air over time, it will cause asphyxiation. Especially obese people, older people, frequent smokers and drinkers, the most prone to whistling; obese people because of the accumulation of excess fat around the whistling tract, making the whistling channel becomes narrow; older people because of ageing, the tension of the whistling muscles gradually weakened, it is easy to relax to produce vibration; frequent smokers and drinkers, because the tissue and mucous membranes are damaged, the autonomic response is also slow, the tissue The phenomenon of whistling occurs when the tissue is relaxed.
Pure whistling, perhaps not much impact on the body, the unlucky is the side of the pillow for a long time, but not properly dealt with, it will slowly evolve from soundproofing, bed sharing, separate rooms, separation, distance more and more distant, and finally get to the end of the parting of the ways. If the whistling is accompanied by sleep apnea syndrome, the first to notice this symptom is often the person next to the pillow, the patient himself completely unaware that the person next to him in the snoring used to years, suddenly a dead silence, as if no breath, don’t tens of seconds later, then a loud gasp, huffing, snoring again, not long after, another aborting note, from the previous continuous music, into an intermittent The nightmare of the nightmare, I do not know when to stop, people around the whole night fear, it is not an easy thing
What kind of people get sleep apnea syndrome?
Sleep apnea syndrome starts with whistling. Whistling is a precursor, and only a very small number of patients are unable to whistle properly because of brain damage (central sleep apnea syndrome), while most patients whistle first and then develop sleep apnea (Apnea). The symptom of whistling is that the whistling tract becomes narrow and the airflow, when passing through, rubs against thin joints or soft tissues and vibrates continuously to produce a sound that is usually louder when inhaling and also when whistling, which will only get worse as we get older if we don’t get it corrected. Most people have heard others whistle and have heard others talk about their whistling, but most don’t care and don’t consider it a disease, and don’t feel anything different when it drags on for years, but as a result of continued deterioration, death has crept up on you. When you start to have the following symptoms, you should pay special attention and quickly seek medical examination.
1.When you wake up in the morning, you have a headache and tiredness and feel that you have not slept enough.
2.Dry mouth when you wake up.
3, frequent urination at night.
4.Drowsiness during the day, dozing off when riding in a car, watching TV, sitting and reading, resting, or even in meetings.
5.Lethargy after lunch, very sleepy.
6.Lack of concentration, slow reaction, and reduced learning ability.
7, frustration, irritability, patience disappeared, temperament change.
8.Decline in sexual desire.
9.Stopping snoring during sleep, with gasping and pumping.
10.Symptoms of hypertension and diabetes.
What are the dangers of sleep whistling disease?
Long-term chronic hypoxia can seriously affect the normal physiological activities and metabolic activities of the human body. Wakefulness hypoxia, people will promptly seek medical help, while sleep hypoxia people will hardly feel. This kind of long-term and continuous sleep hypoxia will affect the function of all organs of the body, early manifestations of which are no fresh and relaxed feeling in the morning, lack of energy during the day and daytime drowsiness, followed by memory loss. Kidney damage such as increased nocturia, protein and blood cells in the night urine can also occur.
Sleep deprivation can also affect the function of the endocrine and immune systems, resulting in increased blood viscosity and sexual dysfunction. Some people have nocturnal stifling awakening and nocturnal angina, nocturnal arrhythmia and hypoxic reflex sleep hypertension, and in severe cases, sleep apnea and sudden death. Severe sleep hypoxia can also induce whistling failure and heart failure, and trigger critical illnesses such as cerebral embolism, cerebral hemorrhage and acute myocardial infarction.
The danger of sleep hypoxia lies in its unpredictability, and it has been known to humans for only 20 years. Such patients are often not satisfactorily diagnosed and treated when they go to the doctor, and even suffocation and sudden death occur at night without knowing that it is related to sleep hypoxia. Sleep hypoxia is insidious and long-term, so recognizing and being alert to sleep apnea is a prerequisite for proper diagnosis and treatment.
A definite diagnosis of sleep hypoxia requires sleep monitoring in the hospital, and then targeted treatment can be provided on a case-by-case basis.
Be aware of sleep hypertension
A recent epidemiological survey shows that one third of hypertensive patients are due to long-term sleep hypertension.
The blood pressure of healthy people during sleep shows a “spoon-shaped” curve-like change, that is, the blood pressure gradually decreases with the beginning of sleep, and then returns to the daytime level when they wake up in the morning. Recently, it has been found that a significant number of people have normal blood pressure during the day and increased blood pressure during sleep at night. The normal “spoon-shaped” curve changes disappear, and in some cases there is even an “inverse spoon-shaped” change, i.e., the blood pressure at night does not drop, but increases, and the magnitude of the increase in some patients is incredible. Some patients with daytime hypertension have abnormally high blood pressure at night, which is difficult to control even with antihypertensive drugs. Long-term sleep hypertension thickens and strengthens the muscles that constrict blood vessels around the patient’s blood vessels, gradually developing into elevated blood pressure during the day and becoming hypertensive. This is “sleep hypertension”.
So how does sleep hypertension develop?
Medical research has found that obese patients, patients with sleep snoring and apnea, elderly patients with sleep apnea and central apnea and other sleep apnea diseases have sleep hypertension. Inadequate whistling during sleep and intermittent complete or incomplete blockage of the whistle tract due to various reasons caused them to be hypoxic during sleep. The lack of oxygen is a malignant stimulus to the body, stimulating sympathetic excitation and secretion of a large amount of vasoconstrictive active substances to suddenly increase and continuously maintain blood pressure at a high level. The clinical manifestations of these patients are dizziness at night, palpitations, shortness of breath, increased nocturia and nightmares, and for patients with heart disease, acute heart failure, and in serious cases, cardiovascular accidents.
The root of the treatment of sleep hypertension is to relieve sleep hypoxia and improve the effect of hypoxia on sleep quality. However, simple oxygen inhalation cannot relieve sleep hypoxia because when hypoxia occurs, the patient’s airway is completely blocked or there is no whistling at all, and it is difficult for higher concentrations of oxygen to enter the body. Effective treatment requires the use of a miniature non-invasive ventilation device or other specific treatment under the guidance of a physician. Of course, monitoring sleep hypoxia and sleep hypertension through sleep and making a definitive diagnosis are necessary prerequisites for treatment.
Understanding “brain accidents” and snoring
Snoring is extremely common in life, but did you know that snoring is closely related to “brain accidents”? Experts remind that snoring patients, especially those with high blood pressure, should be prevented and treated early. A foreign clinical survey found that 53% of “brain accident” patients suffered from snoring, of which 35% of “brain accident” occurred during sleep. The incidence of “brain accidents” in snorers is significantly higher than that in non-snorers. Another study confirmed that the mortality rate of snoring in patients with acute brain hemorrhage was three times higher than that of non-snorers.
Snoring is a recently identified independent factor with a high potential risk for “brain accidents”. Why can snoring cause “brain accidents”? First, the sleep hypoxia that occurs every day in snorers can cause increased red blood cells, increased blood viscosity, and slow blood flow, accelerating the occurrence of atherosclerosis, which forms the basis for the occurrence of cerebral embolism. Secondly, the physical vibration of snoring can cause the thrombus of the blood vessel wall to dislodge and embolize the cerebral vessels. Thirdly, snorers, especially those with sleep apnea, are often suffering from hypertension, and the magnitude of blood pressure fluctuations during sleep is very high, which makes it very easy to rupture the already hardened cerebral vessels and cause cerebral hemorrhage.
It is worth noting that snorers’ “brain accidents” are more likely to occur after drinking and overexertion, because drinking and exertion will further aggravate the degree of snoring and sleep deprivation.
Clinical observation shows that some patients with “brain accidents” do not snore before the onset of the disease, but snoring occurs after the onset of the disease. In the acute stage of the disease, especially in comatose patients, due to different degrees of brain damage, the role of the nerve center to govern the dilation of the trachea is reduced or disappeared, and snoring will occur, leading to inhalation pause. The onset of snoring that existed before the onset can be aggravated after the onset. Those with sleep apnea before the onset of the disease may even suffer from asphyxia and have a high morbidity and mortality rate.
Snorers should raise awareness of the disease and self-protection. Snorers with combined hypertension are a high-incidence and high-risk group for cerebrovascular disease, so they should be prevented and treated early. Once a cerebrovascular accident occurs, doctors should consider the serious adverse effects of snoring and whistling apnea to improve the success rate of resuscitation.