Common Performance of Sleep Apnea Syndrome
A person sleep at night when breathing stops lasted more than 10 seconds is considered apnea, this time the oxygen in the blood reduced, the body in a hypoxic state. If the frequent occurrence of apnea, occurs more than 5 times per hour or more than 30 times in 7 hours of sleep. If no effective treatment, year after year, there would be serious consequences, and a series of pathophysiological changes, which can be diagnosed with sleep apnea syndrome. It is different from a certain kind of simple disease, is a clinical syndrome caused by a variety of reasons.
Because after the occurrence of apnea, respiratory airflow interruption, patients with hypoxia and repeated waking from sleep, which against the various body systems, leading complex and diverse clinical manifestations. The main clinical manifestations, such as snoring, apnea, abnormal limb movements during sleep and the patient have in general not aware of this. Their spouse, children or friends, though often encountered in patients with apnea from occurring, to endure the noise interference, in fear and worry about another one to spend a sleepless night. It is difficult to associated those with patients appear daytime sleepiness, irritability, memory impairment and other and some have mistakenly believed that snoring is the performance of deepsleeping.
For constraints of recognition, even if there are individual patients who sought medical advice everywhere, it is often misdiagnosed as heart disease, neurosis. All this makes the understanding of sleep apnea syndrome, the main symptoms, coupled with careful observation, without the aid of instruments to help, you can roughly estimate whether your relatives, friends, or youself suffering from sleep apnea syndrome, provide clues for further medical care for accurate diagnosis and treatment.
Since launching in 1989 of sleep apnea syndrome diagnosis and treatment, we have found that the most important clinical manifestation is sleeping snoring, daytime sleepiness, and frequent occurrence of apnea and other clinical manifestation as the following table.
Sleep apnea syndrome in the clinical manifestations
| The most common（＞60%） | Common（10%～60%） | Rare（＜10%） |
|---|---|---|
| Snoring | Feel suffocated at night | Wet the bed at night |
| Daytime sleepiness, fatigue and weakness | Libido | Frequently hold in Peter |
| Stop breathing at night | Morning dry mouth, headache | Night cough |
| obesity | Night sweats | Insomnia dream |
| Abnormal movements of sleep at night | Pharyngitis long incurable | Chest pain |
| Personality change | ||
| Nocturnal increase | ||
| Sleep does not recover from fatigue |
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