Note: Snoring does not mean you sleep well! Don’t treat snoring as a minor problem. It not only greatly affects your sleep and the sleep of the person next to you, but it may even be a sign of illness!
Snoring is a big enemy to health, and is medically known as “sleep apnea syndrome”. It manifests as: occasional breath holding, breathing difficulties, or breathing interruptions and pauses, which can last for several seconds or more than 10 seconds, and hypoxia symptoms such as cyanosis of the lips, and often waking up during sleep. For example, during a 7-hour sleep at night, the number of breathing pauses exceeds 30 times and each pause lasts more than 10 seconds. When a normal person is sleeping, their breathing becomes deeper, slower, more even, and more stable without making any sound. If the snoring is like thunder, intermittent, and has ups and downs, it indicates that the upper airway is severely obstructed. 
Introduction
Cause
There are many reasons for snoring. When the upper airway resistance increases, the soft tissues in the throat, such as the tongue root and soft palate, are in a relaxed state and collapse downward. When the airflow passes through the narrow part of the airway during breathing, the tissue vibrates and produces a sound called snoring. The narrower the airway, the stronger the airflow, the more obvious the tissue vibration, and the louder the snoring.
When the upper airway resistance is too great, the airway becomes narrower during inhalation, or even completely blocked, and airflow cannot pass through the airway smoothly (just like the water flow becomes thinner or even stops when a water pipe is blocked), resulting in a decrease in the oxygen content in the blood. The brain senses this state and wakes us up from sleep to reopen the airway for breathing. This awakening time is usually so short that we don’t even remember it. This pattern can occur intermittently many times, or even last all night. This state is called obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Aging, obesity, smoking, drinking, genetics, and illness may all cause or aggravate snoring symptoms.
However, not all snoring affects physical health. Some people just snore, but their sleep structure is good and there is no hypoxia, so it does not affect their health.
Specific symptoms
Daytime sleepiness and fatigue: You may often feel tired, sleepy, and unable to concentrate when reading, attending meetings, driving, etc. You may also become irritable.
Interrupted breathing: During snoring, there is a period of silence, or even interrupted breathing, but breathing will resume with louder snoring, and sometimes the person will wake up due to suffocation;
Morning headache: About 10% to 30% of OSA patients experience headache symptoms within a few hours of waking up in the morning.
Sore throat or discomfort in the morning: After a night of throat soft tissue vibration and mouth breathing, many people experience sore throat and discomfort in the morning.
Slow growth and development: Common in children
People with sleep apnea syndrome snore during sleep and breathe with their mouths open, have frequent respiratory arrests, have restless sleep, and are repeatedly awakened from sleep due to suffocation. They may also experience angina pectoris, arrhythmia, or increased nocturia at night.
These people are also very sleepy after waking up, and they will have symptoms such as high blood pressure and headaches after waking up. In the long run, snoring will not only increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular accidents, but also cause memory loss, slow reaction, and even depression in some elderly people.
Affected population
1. Postmenopausal women
When women’s estrogen and progesterone levels drop after menopause, they become more likely to snore and the incidence of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome also increases.
2. People who like to sleep on their backs
When lying on your back, the posterior tongue area collapses, that is, the tongue falls backwards, which will block part of the airway behind the tongue, making the airway narrower and making it easier to snore.
3. People who are used to breathing through their mouths
For example, people with rhinitis breathe through their mouths when they sleep, which reduces the radius of the nasal cavity and increases nasal resistance, reducing the effective ventilation area, leading to airway collapse and causing snoring.
4. Obese people
Studies have shown that a body mass index (BMI = weight/height2) greater than 28 kg/m2 is an important risk factor for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
It may be because the neck is thick and more neck fat increases the load on the upper airway, thereby narrowing the upper airway, so the probability of snoring is higher.
5. People who drink and smoke
Alcohol can worsen upper airway obstruction, and smoking is associated with increased levels of upper airway inflammation.
In addition, heredity, tongue hypertrophy, taking sedatives and hypnotic drugs such as muscle relaxants, or endocrine diseases such as hypothyroidism are also related to the occurrence of snoring.
What needs to be paid attention to is that more and more studies have shown that OSA is associated with many cardiovascular complications, including hypertension, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, coronary artery disease, stroke (cerebral infarction), pulmonary hypertension, and severe OSA is associated with cardiovascular mortality. Therefore, people with severe snoring still need treatment intervention. Treatment options
A. Laser snoring treatment
Introduction:
Ai Beauty laser snoring treatment is a new non-invasive and painless laser therapy that can effectively improve snoring and enhance the patient’s sleep quality. The soft laser heats the area around the tongue muscles and tightens the collagen in the oral mucosal tissue, thereby improving sleep apnea and effectively reducing the amplitude of snoring. The laser energy is used to tighten the airway tissue, which will produce a tightening effect and also help keep the airway open.
Working principle:
Laser snoring treatment uses gentle, superficial Er:YAG laser to optimize the laser pulses, allowing the laser heat to penetrate the oral mucosal tissue more effectively, stimulating the collagen in the oral mucosal tissue to contract and tighten, shrinking the back of the throat, thereby better supporting the uvula and airway (the source of snoring). After treatment, the wider airway can take in more oxygen during breathing and effectively reduce the amplitude of snoring, significantly improving snoring and respiratory arrest, and improving sleep quality.
process:
1. Face-to-face consultation: Assessment based on personal needs and snoring conditions.
2. Preoperative preparation: Clean and disinfect the treatment area, and preheat the tissue with the laser beam.
3. Laser therapy: Use laser beams to strengthen tissues.
4. Precautions after surgery.
Duration: 1 hour
Suitable for the crowd:
- People who suffer from snoring all the year round;
- People who want to improve their snoring but don’t want to undergo surgery;
It uses a non-vaporizing laser that helps keep the airway open, easily improves snoring without surgery, and allows you to restore a good night’s sleep without having to wear any equipment. 
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