Snoring-apnea

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What causes snoring and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)?

Snoring-apnea is much more than a simple nuisance, and usually is not very pleasant even for those who snore or especially for those who have to suffer. Below you will find simple solutions to reduce noise pollution. However, any breathing problems should be examined by a specialist (ENT, pulmonologist).

Snoring is mainly due to:

  1. gender (men snore more than the women),
  2. age (occurs mainly in middle-aged people),
  3. heredity
  4. the increase in weight,
  5. smoking
  6. taking alcohol,
  7. chronic obstructive rhinitis,
  8. the anomalies in the construction of the nose,
  9. colds in which swollen tonsils, and in general, the area of the mouth and throat,
  10. the tonsils and adenoids to be removed,
  11. the crooked nasal septum,
  12. pregnancy.

10 ways to get rid of Snoring-Apnea

  1. Cut the alcohol. Avoid the use of alcohol and drugs that impair breathing, such as hypnotics and sedatives.
  2. Stop smoking. It reduces the chances of inflammation in the airways.
  3. Be careful how much you eat. Don't overdo the consumption of food, always in reasonable portions, and two to three hours before you go to sleep.
  4. Work out. Improves the respiratory system, reducing the chances of snoring and apnea.
  5. Lose weight. And try to keep your weight at normal levels.
  6. Enter program. Go to bed every night at the same hour, and sleep in a lateral position and not on his back. When you sleep on your back, the jaw opens and promotes snoring.
  7. Make small changes: Lift the headboard of the bed in a 10-cm mounting something to the feet. The many pillows, maybe have the opposite effect.
  8. Ensure humidity in the room. The devices of heating and cooling dry air and the dry air causes more contractions of the larynx and so... loud snoring. The winter place over the bodies of heating bowl of water, which will cause a rise in the levels of humidity in the room.
  9. Put stickers. There are stickers that help the situation by opening the vents.
  10. Wear a mouth guard (see: splint apnea). In mild and moderate cases, the dentist-prosthodontist to recommend an orthodontic device which is applied in the mouth every night during sleep.

Visit ENT when:

  • You snore loud and heavy for more than 2 months.
  • You feel drowsy and fatigued during the day.
  • Stop breathing, cough or choke during sleep.

The secret

Snoring is the main symptom of sleep apnea, a condition that should always be checked by a specialist. Disorders of breathing during sleep are identified with a special test, called "πολυσωματική sleep study", in laboratories or in the state Centers for the Study of Sleep. The more insurance funds cover the examination, which lasts from one to two 24-hour.

How to deal with snoring-apnea?

The most common ways of dealing with diseased snoring is the improvement of nasal breathing with the application of a ventilator, CPAP during sleep or various surgical procedures and the application of dental prosthesis.

  1. The improvement of nasal breathing, so that it is sufficient during sleep, is of strategic importance in the treatment of both simple, and diseased snoring, because sometimes solves completely the problem, while in case of need of CPAP mask, this will be applied without complications and problems. The improvement of nasal breathing is achieved by conservative means, as long as it is for rhinitis, allergy, sinusitis, etc., or by surgical means, as long as it is a nasal septum, hypertrophy of the turbinates, polyps, failure of the blades of the nasal προδόμου etc.
  2. Oral splint (mouth guard), is proposed for those cases where the problem is detected only at the level of the root of the tongue. Here, the creation of an auditee, provisional προγναθισμού, by encouraging the lower jaw with the application ενδοστοματικού splint during sleep, can effectively extends the lumen of the pharynx and to cease the apneas. The splints are manufactured in a dental laboratory with the fingerprint from the dentist. Not a few of the patients have been helped with the relatively simple this way.

Respiratory and exercises language

  1. Blow up a balloon and putting the language in front of block in the deflate for 10’. Repeat three times.
  2. Push your tongue forward until your chin and repeat 10 times for 3 each time.
  3. Remove the tongue upward until it reaches the nose. Do the same thing 10 times for 3 each time.
  4. Put resistance with the hand, while pushing the lower jaw forward, in an attempt to bring the lower teeth more in front of you .Do the same thing 10 times for 5 seconds each time.
  5. Keep resistance in the effort of opening of the lower jaw Repeat 10 times for 5 each time.
  6. Push the tongue up and back, pushing the soft palate(palate), while at the same time move the teeth forward. Repeat 10 times.