Snoring is not only disturb the audience, the snorer is actually impaired. Imperfect sleep due to snoring will have the effect of drowsiness and excessive fatigue during the day. It may be followed by the emergence of various diseases, such as headaches, high blood pressure, stroke, and heart.
Arthur Kotch, MD, Medical Director of The Sleep Disorders Center at Danbury Hospital, Connecticut, said that snoring is indicated the disruption of one's breathing.
Snoring is one of the main symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), ie apnea and hipopnea which lasted during sleep due to obstruction of the upper airways.
Apnea is stopping the breath for 10 seconds or more while hipopnea is part of the airway obstruction which is accompanied desaturasi at least 4% oxygen for at least 10 seconds. This disorder can cause sudden death. When the snoring, the supply of oxygen to the body disrupted by the narrowing of airways.
When the oxygen supply disruption that lasted a long time, our body will lack oxygen.Blood oxygen levels also decreased drastically. This will impact on the process of destruction of brain neurons. Therefore, acute sleep apnea patients like this requires a serious treatment to prevent permanent brain damage.
For patients with mild sleep apnea, snoring can be muted with the following simple way:
-Try to sleep on his side and avoid sleeping on your back. Oblique position will make air flow more smoothly in the body and prevent snoring. While sleeping on your back will make lines blocked by the respiratory muscles around the tongue falling backwards.
-Sleep with your head a bit high. This will make it easier to breathe and prevent snoring.
-Reduce the consumption of drugs that can cause drowsiness, because these drugs can cause breathing problems during sleep.
-Reduce weight for people who are overweight. Folds of fat around the neck can impede air flow and cause snoring.
-Avoid alcohol and cigarettes. Because both can make you snore.
-Snoring can also be triggered by the presence of the tonsils. If so, please do tonsillectomy.
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