How to treat sleep suffocation

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There are several cases of suffocation in sleep. One is heart disease. During sleep, breathing movement is limited, so suffocation occurs. Another is respiratory system disease, and suffocation can also occur. Another is the hypertrophy of the uvula in the throat. During sleep, uvula will fall back, affecting the breathing, resulting in suffocation. Another is autonomic nerve dysfunction Chaos, can also appear sleep suffocation phenomenon. Try to sleep on your side, sleep on your back is very easy to occur this situation, throat muscle after loose, it is easy to block the respiratory tract. How to treat suffocation in sleep.

How to treat sleep suffocation

First, people usually think that sudden death at night is caused by myocardial infarction, but it is not. Suffocation in sleep is actually sleep apnea syndrome. It can also be called sleep apnea. The disease can be divided into three types: central type, obstructive type and mixed type. The obstructive type is the most common type of the disease. Most of these patients are obese.

Second: the cause of suffocation and snoring is that the upper respiratory tract is intermittently blocked, resulting in the end of airflow, apnea. Because the respiratory tract is narrower than normal people, muscle relaxation during sleep, so the airflow can not pass through, resulting in asphyxia, a few seconds later will wake up, so that breathing is normal. So we will often see patients with sleep apnea due to lack of oxygen, and soon they will recover, and then we will take it lightly. Then he snored as loud as thunder. We can't stand it.

Third: and the prevention of snoring, there are three ways to prevent a cold, patients with allergic rhinitis, in the acute attack can drop ephedrine. Lateral position sleep, even the more serious patients will improve the condition. The third is to stop drinking and taking sedative and sleeping drugs. Smoking cessation is also a good way. It can reduce the irritation of light smoke to airway mucosa.

matters needing attention

For such patients, we need to know that these patients are easy to doze during the day, with poor work efficiency and loss of appetite. Therefore, it should be noted that patients should not suffer from long-term hypoxia. And to regularly check the patient's sleep, analysis of sleep breathing movement and the number of pauses, and then make notes, to the hospital, the doctor will make an accurate judgment. For the best treatment of this disease, obese people lose weight, avoid sleeping pills, can use respiratory stimulants.