Snoring

Snoring

    * Introduction
    * Symptoms and Diagnosis
    * Treatment
Snoring (Roncopatia) is a widespread phenomenon that occurs during sleep and rest in most cases disrupt the bed partner. Information about the prevalence of snoring is different, so it can be an addiction according to age and sex. Every third man and every sixth snoring middle-aged woman. In about 5-10% of cases the cause is represented by nocturnal apnea and is included in the category of sleep disorders. Most people who snore manifest so-called primary snoring, sleep disturbance and not from a health perspective, there is no health risk behavior and does not require, as a rule, treatment. The very person who snores may act positively on his problem by losing weight, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol consumption. People who snore may resort to a variety of technical means and surgery to relieve the problem without solving it completely, however. If snoring is correlated with respiratory dysfunction, such as obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, nocturnal or nocturnal apnea, then it will manifest itself and irregular noisy (snoring secondary). Patient is not restful sleep, the feeling the fatigue during the day.
Definition Characteristic of snoring (roncopatie) are breathing noises that occur during sleep, almost every night. We speak of a primary or habitual snoring when it does not affect circulatory function or percentage of oxygen in the blood and does not lead to increased EEG wake-up reactions. Primary snoring is rarely associated with sleep disorders and daytime fatigue. Demarcation of nocturnal apnea It is very important to make differential diagnosis of primary snoring with nocturnal apnea, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome as the night may have long term consequences associated with an increased laughed circulatory diseases. Approximately 4% of men and 2% of middle-aged women suffer from nocturnal apnea.
Etiology Characteristic noise of snoring is mouth floor muscles relax. Posture in this case play an important role while in the supine position (back) toward the pharynx, tongue fall often encourages snoring, prone position (belly) can often ruduce snoring noises, until their complete disappearance. Risk Factors Dawn snoring is favored by the following factors: - Overweight: to establish whether a relation between body mass index and the occurrence of snoring. This correlation can be explained by airway narrowing due to excessive deposit of fat in the neck. - Age; - Males; - Consumption of alcohol or fatty foods before bed; - Smoking; - Ingestion of sleeping pills; - Obstruarea nasal breathing (eg due to rhinitis); More rarely, the noise of snoring does not occur in the pharynx, but in the nasal cavity. Certain anatomical features of the nasal cavity and pharynx may promote snoring.