Patient's question:
At midnight, the child is restless and can't sleep, intermittently agitated. Recently, I've felt that it might be due to my loud snoring. Before taking my nap, I slept very peacefully. My wife said I snore heavily every day. What kind of assistance do you need: Here, I need assistance. I said...Doctor's answer:
The medical term is sleep apnea, snoring, sleep apnea syndrome. It is a common deep sleep phenomenon. Currently, most people believe it is a common occurrence and dismiss it, except for those who consider snoring as a sign of sound sleep. In reality, snoring is a major enemy of health. Due to snoring causing repeated pauses in deep sleep breathing, it triggers severe brain and blood choking, leading to hypoxemia, which in turn causes high blood pressure, heart disease, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction, and angina. If the pause in breathing during the night is less than 120 seconds, sudden death is likely to occur again in the early morning.At the International Snoring Symposium held in Beijing in April 1994, experts and scholars from various countries confirmed snoring as "sleep apnea syndrome," a disease, a syndrome, and associated with 27 diseases. How is it defined? A hesitation of more than 10 seconds is considered one breathing pause. If there are more than 5 such hesitations in an hour of deep sleep, or more than 30 hesitations of over 10 seconds in 7 hours of deep sleep, it is classified as sleep apnea syndrome. It poses significant harm to the human body. One-third of a person's life is spent in deep sleep. In normal deep sleep, breathing is even, and oxygen intake meets the needs of all body parts. However, for those who experience breathing pauses during 7 hours of deep sleep each night, they spend 300-400 seconds in anoxia, with blood oxygen levels 8-10% higher than normal. Night after night, year after year, fragmented deep sleep increases oxygen intake significantly, leading to cerebral edema and choking in vital body parts, resulting in various serious diseases. If brain cells are choked for 4-6 minutes, they suffer irreversible death. 53% of patients experience cerebrovascular accidents during deep sleep at night. Recent studies have shown that snoring and breathing pauses are powerful triggers and major causes of cerebrovascular diseases. The mortality rate from snoring increases dramatically at night. For untreated snoring with a history of about 5 years, the mortality rate is 11%-13%. For those with a snoring history of more than 15 pauses per hour, the mortality rate after 8 years is 37%. 72.5% of wives with snoring husbands experience 1-2 hours less deep sleep each night, or 30.6% are woken up by the snoring. 9.7% of women suffer from neurasthenia due to their husband's snoring (the extent to which snoring leads to marital breakdown is difficult to ascertain).
Therefore, snoring is not a normal phenomenon but a serious disease, the source of other diseases.