When night falls, people are immersed in quiet sleep, but there is a disease that quietly invades the health of many people. It is respiratory sleep apnea. You may not be aware of it, but it is like a "killer" hiding in the dark night, silently threatening people's physical function and quality of life.
During our deep sleep, breathing should be carried out smoothly and regularly, delivering oxygen to various organs of the body and maintaining the normal operation of life. However, for people with apnea, the situation is quite different. Their breathing will suddenly stop in their sleep, lasting for a few seconds or even longer, and then suddenly recover, and so on, they may attack dozens or even hundreds of times all night.
This repeated breathing interruption greatly reduces the oxygen supply to the body. As one of the organs with the strongest demand for oxygen, the brain will be the first to issue an "alarm" under hypoxia. Patients may be awakened in their sleep, accompanied by a strong desire to breathe and a rapid heartbeat, as if being pulled back from the brink of death. In the long run, this situation of repeated hypoxia at night will damage the normal function of the brain, and memory, attention and thinking ability may decline. During the day, I often feel tired and sleepy when I work and study, which greatly reduces the efficiency of life and work.
Moreover, respiratory sleep apnea is inextricably linked with cardiovascular diseases. Every time apnea occurs, the body's stress response will lead to a sharp rise in blood pressure, and the heart is under tremendous pressure. In the long run, the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arrhythmia will increase significantly. Take hypertension as an example. After sleep monitoring, many patients find that the abnormal fluctuation of blood pressure at night is directly related to respiratory sleep apnea, and controlling respiratory sleep apnea has a multiplier effect on stabilizing blood pressure.
Moreover, respiratory sleep apnea will also cause a lot of trouble to the lives of partners and family members. The patient's loud and irregular snoring at night is like a burst of "noise storm", which makes it difficult for people around him to sleep, and family relations may become tense.
In fact, the diagnosis of respiratory sleep apnea is not difficult. Through professional sleep monitoring technology, the patient's respiratory changes during sleep can be accurately captured, thus providing scientific basis for subsequent treatment. From the adjustment of living habits, such as losing weight, avoiding drinking and taking sleeping pills before going to bed, to wearing oral appliances, and then using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment, it is helpful to improve patients' breathing conditions, let them have a good night's sleep again, protect their health defense lines, and let their lives no longer be troubled by this hidden "killer".
However, many people don't know enough about this disease, and often confuse it with ordinary snoring, thus delaying the best treatment opportunity. In fact, as long as we are vigilant, pay attention to the sleep state of ourselves and our families, and seek medical examination in time once we find any abnormality, we can effectively avoid the disease from causing greater harm to health, so that every night's sleep can really become a good opportunity for the body to regain its vitality.
