Snoring, also known as snoring, is the sound that people unconsciously make after falling asleep. It's ever-changing and different. Light as a small bridge, lingering; The heaviest such as lightning and thunder, Ma Benteng; Moreover, snoring is very rhythmic, with ups and downs, stops and meals, which makes people feel that they are climbing stairs, from low to high, suddenly jumping to the bottom, and from low to high, so repeatedly and intermittently changing. People who snore don't know it themselves, and they don't feel this thrilling feeling, but they suffer from the people in the same room. I can't sleep when I hear this sound in a quiet night. I wish I could block that person's mouth and nose together. If patients know that they have this problem, sometimes they will have a mental burden and are unwilling to go out to stay or visit relatives and friends. Sometimes their family can't stand it and sleep in separate beds. If you snore only occasionally or slightly, it will not affect your health, and it is generally not morbid. This is mainly due to the different sleep levels and sleeping postures. But if someone snores every day, and there is a four-step rule of "sleeping and snoring-apnea-choking-sleeping and snoring", it is morbid and medically called sleep apnea syndrome. Patients with this disease are usually obese, with a short and thick neck, a thick mouth and throat and a short tongue. Every day is groggy, sleepy, awake many times at night, poor sleep, showing hypoxia. Of course, patients are also very painful, often dreaming and often turning over. After waking up, I feel thirsty, tired and weak, and my mood is uneasy, and my memory is also declining. So how is snoring formed? Why don't you snore when you are awake, but only when you lie down and fall asleep? It turns out that this is related to people's physiological state. When sleeping, the respiratory airflow impacts the soft tissue of the respiratory tract, causing it to vibrate and produce snoring. There are many soft tissue edges in the upper respiratory tract that can produce vibration or airway stenosis, and the airflow impacts to produce whistling, such as turbinate, proliferator, tonsil, uvula, soft palate, tongue and epiglottis. Under the impact of airflow, they sometimes sound like vocal cords through vibration. When people are awake and upright, these soft tissues are controlled by voluntary muscles, which keep vertical tension and are not prone to vibration. In the sleep state, the self-consciousness disappears, and the soft tissue relaxes and shrinks, which narrows the airway, which is beneficial to the vibration caused by airflow impact, thus causing snoring. So we can also judge whether a person is asleep by whether he snores or not. The size of snoring is very different from the soft tissue that is hit, and the timbre of the sound is also different. If people sleep on their backs, more tissues will fall off and snoring will be deep and powerful; The pitch is often higher when lying on your side, because there is less shedding tissue and less airway obstruction. Snoring is not a big problem, but if you disturb others, you should actively treat them, especially those with sleep apnea syndrome. The principle of treatment is to improve airway patency as much as possible, and pay attention to check whether there are lesions in nose, pharynx and larynx, such as chronic rhinitis, sinusitis, hyperplasia or tonsil hypertrophy, long uvula, short tongue, epiglottic cyst and soft palate paralysis. , if any, should be actively treated and eradicated; Secondly, properly control weight and strengthen exercise; In addition, pay attention to changing sleeping posture, such as lying on your back instead of your side, and sleeping with a suitable pillow. Recently, some doctors treated sleep apnea syndrome by surgery, mainly removing the long uvula, relaxing the soft palate and reshaping the shape of the pharyngeal isthmus, and achieved certain results.