1, “snoring” need to be treated? Modern medical research has confirmed that severe snoring can cause great damage to health. Severe snoring can cause temporary stoppage of breathing or reduction of airflow during sleep at night, resulting in a reduction of oxygen content in the blood, causing hypoxia and damage to tissue cells throughout the body, which can induce or aggravate hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, dementia and other chronic diseases, and can cause sudden death at night in severe cases. According to statistics, the risk of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke is 1.2 to 8.0 times higher in people with severe snoring than in normal people. In addition, snoring causes repeated respiratory stops at night, which interferes with the normal sleep structure, and many physiological processes and the secretion of certain hormones are completed during specific sleep periods. According to statistics, the number of snoring-related deaths is about 3,000 per day worldwide. Therefore, the active treatment of “snoring” can effectively maintain health and prevent the occurrence of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. 2.What kind of “snoring” needs to be treated? Usually people are used to classify snoring intuitively as “benign snoring” and “malignant snoring”. The so-called benign snoring is due to improper sleep posture or cold nasal congestion caused by a short period of snoring phenomenon, this snoring will be improper sleep posture or cold nasal congestion and other external causes after the natural disappearance, usually does not cause significant impact on the human body, so there is no need to go to the hospital. The “malignant snoring” refers to the existence of no clear external causes, the habitual snoring phenomenon for years. This is divided into two situations, one is simply habitual snoring without clear respiratory temporary stop or airflow reduction phenomenon, the second is in addition to snoring is accompanied by repeated respiratory temporary stop or airflow reduction phenomenon during sleep, medically known as sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome. For people who simply snore habitually, although there is no respiratory arrest during sleep, but also need to pay attention to, because this habitual snoring if not take timely and effective intervention will gradually aggravate the development of sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome. When the habitual snorer has poor daytime energy, drowsiness, dry mouth in the morning, dizziness, and no relief after sleep, it is time to go to a professional and regular medical institution. For patients with sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome, timely consultation and treatment at a professional and regular medical institution is a must, because a little snoring is seriously endangering your health. 3.How should snoring be treated? There are many treatment methods for snoring, and different patients should choose different personalized treatment methods according to their different causes and characteristics, so that they can get twice the result with half the effort. For patients with airway narrowing as the main cause, surgical expansion of the airway can prevent the collapse of the airway during sleep, so that breathing during sleep can be temporarily stopped or the airflow can be reduced, thus achieving the purpose of treatment. For patients with apnea caused by dysfunction of the airway dilator muscles during sleep, surgery does not improve the dysfunction; therefore, continuous positive pressure ventilation (commonly known as ventilator therapy) is the most effective treatment for these patients. For patients with “small jaws”, the airway can be enlarged by wearing an oral orthosis to achieve the purpose of treatment. In conclusion, although snoring is a common phenomenon, it is a very complex pathological process, so be sure to go to a regular professional medical institution for personalized consultation and treatment, so as not to affect the effectiveness of treatment, causing unnecessary losses.