Li Yunlong snores like an air raid in "Bright Sword"? Tell people around you quickly that this is a disease and must be cured.

In the TV series "Bright Sword", there is a classic story: Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Kong Jie chat and brag. First of all, Ding Wei jokes that Li Yunlong snores loudly, and he can't sleep even if he doesn't listen to his comrades in his class. There are guns outside and he doesn't wake up, thinking that Li Yunlong snores.

The conversation between the three people is really hilarious, and even reminds people of those groups who snore loudly in their daily lives.

In general cognition, it is thought that snoring during sleep is a performance of good sleep quality, but in fact it is not. Experts say that snoring is a disease called sleep apnea syndrome.

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What is sleep apnea syndrome

Xu Wenbing, chief physician of the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, said: Sleep apnea syndrome is actually a syndrome of apnea during sleep, and the main symptom is snoring, accompanied by respiratory arrest after snoring.

Sleep apnea syndrome can be diagnosed if the duration of each apnea is more than 1 seconds, and there are more than 3 apnea phenomena during 7 hours of sleep at night.

The diagnosis of this disease needs to go to the hospital for regular sleep monitoring, and bring the machine to see how long the pause time is in one night and how low the minimum blood oxygen can reach. If you suspect that you have this disease, don't scare yourself. Be sure to go to the hospital for examination.

But at the same time, we can't think that it's just a small problem like snoring. If we don't pay attention to it and let the disease develop, it will eventually lead to very serious consequences and even death.

the harm of sleep apnea

the harm of sleep apnea is mainly manifested in two aspects: first, intermittent hypoxia. The second is to seriously reduce the quality of sleep.

Both of them have great influence on people's health. Failure to sleep effectively at night will lead to daytime sleepiness, memory loss, inattention, unresponsiveness and so on.

If patients with sleep apnea syndrome are not treated properly for a long time, they may damage the functions of heart, brain, lung, kidney and other organs and cause diseases such as hypertension, heart disease, heart failure, stroke and senile dementia. The risk of serious accidents while driving due to excessive fatigue and lethargy is also greatly increased.

in 215, a prospective survey of 153,417 cases showed that the risk of cardiovascular disease and cerebrovascular disease was significantly higher in people with sleep apnea compared with those without sleep apnea, and the risk of death from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases was 13.13%, while the risk of death from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in people without sleep apnea was less than 4%.

in the worst case, it may suffocate to death during sleep.

There was an article in the newspaper that "someone snored at the New Year's Injury Prevention Conference held in Nanjing". Although it is ridiculous to fall asleep at such an important meeting, on reflection, sleepiness in such a neglected occasion may be the influence of sleep apnea syndrome. Never take it lightly.

Although the disease is common in obese middle-aged and elderly men, young people should pay more attention to it, and even children may suffer from sleep apnea syndrome.

Dr. Bu Nian, the chief physician of Ningbo No.1 Hospital, once told a case: Qiangqiang, a third-grade primary school student, was originally a good student with excellent academic performance, but the teacher recently found that he was inattentive in class, absent-minded, always sleeping at his desk, and his academic performance was declining.

Teachers and parents were very anxious. Later, after being reminded, they went to the outpatient department of sleep and breathing disorders in the hospital for examination. It turned out to be sleep apnea syndrome.

Qiangqiang is young and not obese. Why did he get this disease? It turned out that Qiangqiang suffered from chronic pharyngitis. After examination, his bilateral tonsils were swollen three times, which almost blocked all the passages in the pharyngeal cavity.

According to relevant data, the prevalence rate of sleep apnea syndrome in children is about 2%. If parents find that their children snore loudly and sometimes irregularly, they must seek medical attention as soon as possible to avoid affecting their growth and development. ?

In fact, the super loud snoring also has a certain influence on marriage. Please see the following picture:

How to deal with sleep apnea syndrome

Get to the point. Sleep apnea syndrome is essentially a disease caused by the obstruction of the upper respiratory tract, which leads to the inability of airflow to pass through. There are many reasons for it.

for example, obesity. Too much fat is deposited in the neck, which causes the stenosis of the respiratory tract; Drinking alcohol and taking sedative sleeping pills. Restrain breathing and aggravate snoring; Smoking. Causes respiratory inflammation and edema, leading to respiratory stenosis; Age. Neuromuscular dysfunction caused by aging; Nasopharyngeal diseases or congenital anatomical malformations.

Sleep apnea syndrome can't heal itself, so once it gets sick, it must be treated actively. Although there is no effective therapeutic drug at present, we can carry out targeted treatment according to its inducement. At present, the treatment methods are:

1. Change living habits. For example, losing weight and exercising properly; Do not smoke or drink, and adhere to a healthy lifestyle; Sleep in lateral position to reduce the fall of tongue base.

2. ventilator treatment with nasal continuous positive pressure ventilation. This is an effective and safe treatment for sleep apnea syndrome at present. At present, 7%-8% of patients in the world are using this method.

3. Oral appliances. When sleeping, wearing a pair of braces can prevent snoring.

4. Surgical treatment. For example, Qiangqiang, after bilateral tonsillectomy, has completely returned to normal.

Chen Xin, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of China-Japan Friendship Hospital, pointed out that there is no single treatment method for sleep apnea syndrome, but different treatment methods must be adopted according to different degrees of illness.

Therefore, if you suspect that you have this disease, you must check it in time, follow the doctor's advice and actively treat it. Maybe sleep apnea syndrome won't make you fall down immediately, so it doesn't seem so worthy of attention. But experts show that the cure of this disease can effectively improve the quality of work and life of patients.

I hope everyone can spend every day actively and happily.

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