Severe snoring is also a disease

  Once the narrowing of the airway to a more serious degree or even completely blocked, snoring will affect the flow of breathing air, there is a reduction in respiratory airflow or stop, the danger is big many people love to snore in their sleep. The so-called snoring is the impact of airflow on the narrow airway, causing the soft tissue of the pharynx to vibrate and make a loud sound. The muscles are relaxed during sleep and the pharyngeal cavity is slightly smaller than when awake. If the pharyngeal cavity is narrowed to a certain extent, the airflow will cause the local mucous membrane tissue to vibrate, thus producing sound.  Is snoring a disease? Mild, even snoring, or occasional snoring caused by poor sleep posture, etc., is not very harmful to the body. However, once the airway is narrowed to a more serious degree or even completely blocked, the snoring will affect the respiratory air flow and the respiratory airflow will be reduced or stopped, which will be harmful.  The repeated occurrence of airway obstruction during sleep and the inability to breathe normally can lead to a decrease in the oxygen content of the blood and an increase in carbon dioxide, causing an increase in heart rate, blood pressure and damage to the blood vessel walls. If the oxygen level in the blood decreases to a certain level, the body will start the “protection” mechanism by waking up the brain and forcing to send instructions to make the airway dilating muscles work, so as to release the obstruction.  Sleep is a physiological process that people must perform every day to recover their strength and brain power. Sleep is a cyclic process consisting of different stages, which are responsible for different physiological functions. If sleep is repeatedly disturbed, the sleep structure can be disturbed, resulting in daytime drowsiness, fatigue, lack of concentration, memory loss, and even personality changes such as depression, irritability, and irritability.  Repeated reduction or cessation of respiratory airflow during sleep can cause repeated ischemia and hypoxia in tissues and organs throughout the body, resulting in the secretion of many harmful inflammatory factors by the organism, causing cellular damage and eventually leading to multi-organ functional damage and causing the occurrence of chronic diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes and cerebral thrombosis.  The morbidity and mortality rate of hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cerebral thrombosis in patients with sleep breathing disorders is 2-8 times higher than that of the normal population. In addition, sleep apnea can also cause endocrine metabolic disorders in the body, affect the growth and development of children, and cause sexual dysfunction such as loss of libido and impotence, as well as a decrease in the immunity of the body, and even cause the occurrence of malignant tumors.  In medical terms, if abnormal breathing during sleep occurs more frequently than a certain limit, it can be defined as a sleep breathing disorder disease. On the one hand, this disease can increase the risk of hypertension, cardiovascular diseases or diabetes; on the other hand, it can become more and more severe with age and weight gain.  If the blood oxygen is always reduced during sleep, the body gradually tolerates the low blood oxygen state, and the body wakes up the brain’s “protection” mechanism will become increasingly insensitive. Over time, the body’s protection against low blood oxygen is poor, even if the blood oxygen drops very low, but also no response, when more than a certain limit, the human body is very dangerous, may be directly into brain edema and asphyxiation death. Therefore, early treatment is very necessary.