Sleep Apnea Syndrome Common Performance
1. Snoring
Sleep snoring is a common phenomenon of life, but also the most common and one of the most typical symptoms in patients with sleep apnea syndrome. Snoring is due to vibration of soft palate and the soft tissue around the throat when air flow passing through a narrow airway. Generally speaking, The more narrower the airway, the snoring louder, but should be noted that the more louder snoring not indicate the more serious of sleep apnea syndrome. In addition, snoring of patients with sleep apnea syndrome is different from the ordinary snorers snoring.
A small number of patients with sleep apnea syndrome denied that they have history of snoring which is commonly found in the following situations:
- Snorer often do not know their snoring, when asked whether they snoring, they will also not hesitate to say “no”, but their lovers or friends are often able to provide accurate information. The best way is to use tape recorders record the snoring of the patients.
- If the patient has already emerged respiratory failure or suffering from neuromuscular disorders at the same time, respiratory muscle weakness, does not have enough power to bring high-speed airflow through a narrow airway, snoring naturally much smaller or even disappear.
- Some patients with apnea is due to central sleep apnea caused by brain lesions, such as brain tumors, cerebral ischemia or heart failure , central nervous system due to poor respiratory drive, which took insufficient to produce an effective nerve impulse muscle contraction, and therefore can not produce high-speed airflow, snoring is also not so loud the.
- Some of these patients is due to surgical removal of available vibration of the soft tissue (such as the soft palate, uvula, etc.) around the airway. Thus, although apnea occurs but no snoring. As the loud snoring is often the reason patients come to treatment, snoring disappeared after the surgery, the patient’s family members are often mistaken the successful of operation and neglect the still frequent occurrence of apnea, the patient dying in silence, which is a very dangerous situation.
2. Sleep excessively
Mainly manifested as fall asleep during the day can not be suppressed, involuntary sleep and snoring regardless of time and place . The most serious illness and even will be soundly asleep when talking with others. The patient’s sleep time usually up to 10 hours, if conditions permit, they can all day lethargy. You might ask, “So long sleep time, why does he fall asleep?” The reason is that although they sleep a long time, but the poor quality of sleep.
Normal sleep is implemented progressively, and only the deep sleep can reduce fatigue, maintain a clear head during the day, while patients with sleep apnea syndrome because of frequent apnea often wake up from sleep, hold back and rarely get into deep sleep. Day after day, year after year, they will feel that they had never slept a good feel.Inspection of the means applied science also found that they feel is right.
It is noteworthy that some patients with sleep apnea syndrome is not aware of their sleep have any questions, it is because the appearance of sleepiness is a gradual process, can take years, decades before the progress manifested itself most visibly, and people have greater tolerance to the lack of sleep, thus mild drowsiness is often mistakenly believed to be due to age changes, tiredness, mental stress due to other reasons, failed to timely diagnosis and treatment. In addition, the sleepiness may also be performance some of other sleep-related diseases, such as sleep, cataplexy syndrome, or because of short sleep time, sleep phase changes, abnormal movements during sleep, the influence of drugs, etc., need to be carefully identified.
3. Frequent sleep apnea
During sleep, the person’s breathing is not an absolute law, for example, when you just fall asleep or awake, breathing occasionally a brief interval, especially in the dream, the depth of breathing often uneven, which are all normal physiological changes . But the sleepiness apnea syndrome is different, they will frequent apnea, and will continue to tens of seconds or even minutes. According to the different conditions, the appearance time of apnea are also different, some apnea only occur in a specific period of time or supine position, while others continued apnea throughout the night.
4. Mouth breathing at night
Many patients with snoring conscious early morning dry mouth, need to get up at night drinking water, tongue dry yellow, lips chapped and permanently. When breathing through mouth, air without wet-based and warm of nasal passages, dry air directly through the mouth into the throat, airways, long-term repeated stimulation, cause discomfort. Many people mouth breathing during sleep, which so long been mistakenly think that this is a normal sleep performance, however, the fact is not this. When lying sleep, the tongue fall back, often blocking the respiratory tract, respiratory pause, open mouth, the mandible forward, the tongue body forward along, respiratory expanded easily through the air, showing that mouth breathing during sleep is a kinds of compensatory response of sleep apnea.
5. Early morning eye pain
Early morning eye swollen, which is one of the symptoms that many patients with sleep apnea syndrome, examination revealed that many patients with the highest IOP in the morning.
6. Abnormal movements during sleep, and other anomalies
- hold breath at night, in the late apnea, patients often hold back awake, and even sat up suddenly, the kind of choking flu patients feel very scared. This is also a common cause the patients seek for treatment . Because of its similarity with paroxysmal nocturnal breathing as heart dysfunction, which may be misdiagnosed as heart disease.
- A small number of patients also frequently swinging limb, beating bed with people, and some fell from his bed, sleep soundly on the floor.
- Limbs twitch, mostly for the law of unilateral lower limb or upper limb tic, some are caused by neurological diseases, and some disappeared through the effective treatment of sleep apnea syndrome .
- Sweat can often wet pajamas, bed sheets, not because the room is too hot or the temperature is too high, but because of suffocation, forced breathing, hypoxia.
- Sometimes lips, and acral cyanosis can be seen.
- An increase in nocturnal and nocturnal enuresis.
- Some patients take special sleeping posture, such as the prone position, sitting, which can reduce the holded breath .
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