March 21 is World Sleep Day, modern society, more and more young people suffering from insomnia, lethargy, night terrors and other sleep disorders trouble. But as one of the sleep disorders snoring has received little attention.
"Commonly known as snoring snoring, snoring in a crowd, a high incidence of severe cases the evolution of sleep apnea syndrome. In recent years, women snoring in patients with an increasing number, which is closely related to obesity, aging, and living habits. snoring women, they bring not only the potential crisis of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and may also lead to impaired general health, face premature death, early menopause. "Some women snore because of poor blood circulation cause pale complexion, rough skin, bloated obese, the body deformation, bad breath, mouth pain, irregular menstruation, such serious damage to health disease, or more seriously, because endocrine disorders to advance into the menopause. "because the people who snore sleep quality is generally not high, its potential harm to health is very large.
For the cause of the snoring, obese people fat accumulation, soft tissue relaxation, easy to narrow oropharynx, causing snoring. The second category is the lower jaw is short, also known as "shrinking jaw can also cause oropharyngeal stenosis. Third category is the habits, such as love drinking, staying up late, resulting in muscle relaxation, soft tissue, it is easy to plug the mouth while sleeping The fourth category of the pharynx. snoring is due to disease, such as hypothyroidism, individual cancer patients, it will affect the structure of the oropharynx. the fifth long-term use of sleeping pills in treating insomnia, because the role of sleeping pills makes the oropharynx soft tissue relaxation, induced snoring.
Any parts of the upper respiratory tract obstruction, will induce snoring, such as the nasopharynx and nasal polyps, turbinate hypertrophy, rhinitis; the oropharyngeal the 'little tongue' mast glossocoma; hypopharynx, tonsil hypertrophy, but their respective of treatment are not the same qualitative plus locate and select the most suitable treatment options. "surgical treatment for patients with oropharyngeal stenosis collapse, through minimally invasive surgery, to change the organizational structure of the oropharynx, and cavity more space, avoid respiratory obstruction. But such surgery is not necessarily once and for all, obesity and other reasons some patients will relapse. "For young women, strengthening exercise, diet and healthy schedule the treatment of snoring.