Snoring is a common thing, so why make such a big deal out of it? Because snoring kills about 3,000 people worldwide every day, mainly due to sleep breathing disorders that lead to oxygen deprivation and suffocation. The number of patients who die directly from snoring is more than 100,000 per year worldwide! Why snoring can kill Continuous snoring sound is the same as fever, is the body sends out a signal for help. Snoring is caused by poor airflow during sleep. The most dangerous snoring is snoring is not gasping for air, after a dozen seconds with a loud noise, and then snoring, the whole night is in the snoring sound and breathlessness, is likely to lead to sudden death at night. This condition is known as sleep apnea syndrome. Data show that 3 to 5 out of every 100 people snore, and one out of every five people who snore has obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Usually, a person in 7 hours of sleep, the occurrence of apnea (pause to maintain more than 10 seconds) and hypoventilation more than 30 times, or every hour of sleep, the occurrence of apnea and hypoventilation more than 5 times, are called “sleep apnea syndrome”. It will make the human body lack of oxygen for a long time, and ultimately lead to systemic function damage, cause hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure, respiratory failure, etc., and in serious cases, it will even lead to sudden death in sleep. Therefore, “snoring is not a disease, but snoring for a long time will kill you.” Snoring is usually divided into two kinds: benign and malignant 1, benign: snoring sound is even, and change with the change of sleeping position. 2, malignant: snoring sound is even. 2, malignant: snoring is not the same, not only the snoring sound, and always hit the hit on the gas, after a dozen seconds or even dozens of seconds before a great snoring with a great snoring again. Malignant snoring, in fact, in a state of frequent suffocation, sleep apnea syndrome belongs to the “high-risk stage”, once it happens, should go to the hospital immediately. A simple way to determine, when you hear people around you snoring suddenly playing with no sound, like back to the same, intermittent, which means that the apnea, or even more, fall asleep asleep was suffocated by their own wake up, which must be taken seriously. And if a person 7 days in 5 days are snoring, this also need to go to the doctor to judge. Why obese people snoring is more dangerous Obesity can cause OSAS for two main reasons: 1, the accumulation of fat tissue in the pharynx can make the pharyngeal cavity narrow. Adipose tissue in the pharynx mainly accumulates in the lateral wall of the pharynx, and the openness of the pharynx decreases when breathing. At the same time, these flaccid adipose tissues are more likely to produce soft oropharyngeal wall collapse between the soft palate and epiglottis under negative pressure during inspiration, aggravating airway obstruction. In addition, due to the thicker adipose tissue in the neck and lower collar of obese patients, the extra-luminal pressure in the oropharynx and laryngopharynx of the patients increases, and the manifestation of upper airway compression occurs. Thus, the pharyngeal airway pressure in obese patients is another important reason why the pharynx is prone to collapse during inspiration. During the daytime when awake, the pharyngeal muscle compensatory contraction keeps the airway open, so there are generally no symptoms. However, at night during sleep the nerve excitability decreases, the muscles relax, the pharyngeal tissues are blocked, so that the upper airway collapses, and when the airflow passes through the narrow part, it generates vortex and causes vibration, which results in snoring, and in severe cases, the breathing can be temporarily stopped. Compared with generalized obesity, there is a closer correlation between the increase of neck circumference and the incidence of OSAS and its severity. 2. Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) often experience inspiratory effort, cessation of respiratory flow, snoring and decreased oxygen saturation during sleep. As a result, patients often wake up, which interferes with normal sleep and leads to daytime sleepiness and changes in respiratory cycle function. Repeated awakenings to a certain extent can significantly affect the patient’s sleep quality, causing a series of pathophysiological changes, such as daytime sleepiness, fatigue, headache, sweating, nocturnal enuresis, as well as cognitive and intellectual deterioration and personality abnormalities. The decrease in oxygen saturation during apnea can lead to a series of cardiac arrhythmias, including sinus bradycardia, sinus arrest, atrioventricular block, and ventricular arrhythmia, which increases the risk of angina pectoris and cardiac infarction at night. In addition, the hypoxemia and hypercapnia caused by repeated apnea increases the sympathetic tone of the patient, which increases the likelihood of pulmonary hypertension and high blood pressure, and in severe cases can lead to ventricular hypertrophy and cardiac dysfunction. All this jargon is to tell you: sometimes snoring is a disease! 1-minute self-check if you should seek medical attention If the reader happens to be obese and happens to have the following symptoms. Then, it is time to lose weight! 1, the degree of snoring: for example, snoring is particularly loud and can be heard with the door closed. 2, fatigue: sleep at night, but often feel dizzy and tired during the day, very tired, want to sleep at any time. 3.Apnea: snoring suddenly stops when you sleep, and it takes half a day before you can hear a “pfft” spit out a breath, and sometimes even because you can’t catch your breath, you will be suddenly suffocated and woke up. High blood pressure: whether you have suffered from high blood pressure, or are taking medication for high blood pressure. If you have two or more of the above four items, it means that the risk of suffering from sleep apnea is very high, and you need to go to the hospital as soon as possible for sleep apnea monitoring. Obesity is a relatively common social phenomenon, and as long as you make an effort to control your weight will naturally drop. Few people feel that obesity is a disease. However, the obese body for a long time, naturally suffer from many diseases. Although it is not a disease, but he can give you a lot of disease! Many people always treat the symptoms but not the root cause, why toss yourself?