The dangers of sleep snoring on the human body

Sleep snoring is a very common phenomenon, so much so that most people take it for granted, in addition to the impact of the same bedroom people feel uneasy about sleep, few people can recognize how harmful to themselves, even if they have already appeared drowsiness (that is, always want to go to sleep, and the serious ones can fall asleep while driving the car), attention, memory loss, and even blood pressure, blood glucose, high blood lipids, nighttime urination and even bedwetting, acid water, hiccups, dry throat, chest tightness and other symptoms, few people recognize that the culprit is sleep snoring. , on the acid water, hiccups, dry throat, chest tightness and other symptoms, also few people recognize the culprit is sleep snoring. So sleep snoring in the end is not a disease, is a disease, what harm to the human body, how to diagnose and treat? Generally speaking, simple snoring without apnea is not harmful to the human body, and therefore does not require special treatment. But for sleep snoring with apnea, especially to a certain extent for a certain period of time, will cause harm to the human body, so this has become a disease, this disease because it involves multiple organs and systems of the human body, so the clinic to syndrome named: sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome. So how to diagnose sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome in clinic? In addition to the symptoms mentioned above, the gold standard for diagnosing this disease is polysomnography, which applies polysomnography to continuously observe and monitor the sleep of this kind of patients throughout the night and record the patient’s electro-oculogram, electroencephalogram, electromyogram, oxygen saturation, oral and nasal airflow, chest and abdominal respiration and so on, and the diagnosis of sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome is clarified through the analysis of the data. The diagnosis of sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome can be made, and the nature and degree of sleep apnea can be determined, and the effect on sleep structure can be understood. Sleep apnea hypoventilation syndromes are divided into three main categories based on their cause: central, obstructive, and mixed. The central one is when there is a problem with the command center that initiates breathing, and it fails to give the command to breathe in time, leading to a cessation of breathing. Obstructive refers to the obstruction of the respiratory pathway, resulting in breathlessness and respiratory arrest; mixed refers to both central causes and airway obstruction. Clinically, obstructive is the most common type of respiratory arrest. Obstructive disease is caused by long-term airway obstruction, resulting in lack of oxygen, which affects the respiratory center, and will eventually complicate the central causes to form a mixed disease. Because this disease involves multiple organs and systems of the human body, and intertwined with each other, so the harm to the human body is extensive, serious and complex, and should attract the attention of people and even doctors. This patient sleeps with his mouth open to breathe, inhale forcefully, but still insufficient air intake (clinically known as hypoventilation), or direct inhalation does not gasp (clinically known as apnea), in this case, in order to inhale the human body to do more work, do more work to consume more oxygen, and enter the human body is not only not much oxygen, or even zero, thus resulting in or aggravate the human body’s hypoxia, light to light to go for a short period of time, the human body is still capable of Compensation, if it is serious for a long time, especially with basic diseases, there is a harm to the human body: 1, aggravate the burden on the heart and blood vessels, resulting in heart disease, hypertension, and this hypertension is often sleep when waking up the blood pressure increases significantly. 2, due to sleep apnea or hypoventilation of the human body appears hypoxia, the patient is irritable, sleep is not stable, that is, the sleep structure is disturbed. Under normal circumstances, the human body sleep including non-rapid eye movement sleep and rapid eye movement sleep 2 phases, the former includes 1, 2, 3, 4 sleep, this patient is often lack of 3, 4 sleep, that is, the depth of sleep, light sleep is the main manifestation of the patient woke up as soon as he called, obviously snoring like thunder, wake up after the patient said he did not sleep, the patient sleeps a very long time, but always feel sleep is not enough, and wake up with a headache and dizziness. In addition to the direct lack of oxygen, another important reason is that the normal sleep structure is destroyed, the patient lacks deep sleep, lack of some hormones and physiologically active substances secreted in deep sleep, so there will be fat, glucose, protein metabolism abnormalities leading to obesity, high blood sugar, memory loss, children’s growth and developmental delays and so on. 3, this patient due to airway obstruction to force inhalation, and into the lungs of the gas is insufficient, resulting in the chest pressure becomes small, in the abdominal pressure is unchanged, will lead to abdominal and thoracic cavity between the pressure difference between the large, the patient will appear esophageal reflux, this cause of esophageal reflux conventional treatment is poor, and due to the reflux of acidic water on the pharyngeal mucous membrane of the damage, can cause pharyngeal dryness, pharyngeal itching, pharyngeal burning, foreign body sensation and so on. Pharyngitis symptoms. Coupled with the patient’s open-mouth breathing, no nasal heating and humidification of clean filtered air directly into the pharyngeal cavity, stimulating the pharyngeal mucosa, aggravating the symptoms of pharyngitis. Clinically, many of these patients consult the doctor with pharyngeal discomfort without realizing that the root cause of the disease is sleep snoring. Recognizing the danger of sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome to the human body, then how to treat it clinically. The cause of the disease is different, the treatment method is different. For obstructive, there are obvious airway obstructive diseases such as: hypertrophic rhinitis, nasal septum deviation, nasal polyps, adenoid hypertrophy, tonsil hypertrophy, tongue root hypertrophy and other diseases, surgery for the first choice of treatment, the effect is clear. For patients who are obese, elderly with muscle relaxation, or in serious condition, poor general condition who cannot tolerate surgery, and those who are centralized, non-invasive continuous positive pressure ventilation is the best choice. Non-invasive continuous positive pressure ventilation therapy is to continuously increase a certain degree of positive pressure to the airway while the patient is sleeping, to maintain muscle tone, to prevent collapse of the upper airway, to keep the upper airway unobstructed, to eliminate snoring, and to maintain normal breathing. Among them, fully automatic positive pressure ventilator, also known as intelligent ventilator, can automatically detect the patient’s apnea and the amount of airflow reduction, and then automatically output the changing pressure according to the upper airway resistance, sleep phase, and different body positions, so as to achieve the best therapeutic effect with the minimum output pressure. This treatment method is just like wearing glasses for myopic eyes and hearing aids for hearing loss in the ears, and it is hoped that such patients will correctly recognize and accept this treatment method. The following should emphasize the children’s sleep apnea hypoventilation syndrome, due to the children in the growth and development period, and do not have enough cognitive ability, this disease is often ignored by parents, delayed, serious impact on the child’s growth and development, performance of intellectual decline, hearing loss, sleep is not restful, hyperactivity, height is shorter than the same age, facial deformities and so on. Parents and friends are reminded to pay attention to their children’s breathing during sleep.