Patients will be diagnosed with sleep apnea syndrome after examination in the hospital sleep testing room, which can be divided into mild, moderate and severe. At present, the effective treatment methods that can be confirmed by academic circles are sleep ventilator, otolaryngology surgery, oral appliance, orthodontics and so on. Among them, the ventilator is the safest and least painful treatment method, that is, the ventilator is used to assist the patient to breathe, so as to avoid the symptoms becoming more and more serious and lead to complications. Its basic principle is to replace, control or change people's normal physiological breathing through the pressure difference between the machine and the body, increase lung ventilation, improve respiratory function, reduce respiratory work consumption and preserve heart reserve capacity.
The symptoms of snoring are caused by the stenosis or obstruction of the upper respiratory tract. Although theoretically the obstruction can be anywhere from the front nostril to the throat, it is found that the main obstruction parts of the patient are the soft palate of the pharynx and the plane of the base of the tongue. Due to the lack of bone or cartilage support in these places, when inhaling at a certain position, it is easy to collapse under the action of gravity and negative pressure in the lumen, leading to obstruction of the upper respiratory tract. The mechanism of ventilator treating snoring is to fix a special mask on the patient's nose through a headband during sleep, and the mask is connected to the host through a pipeline. When the high-speed airflow generated by the main engine is transported through the nasal mask, it is connected with the patient's respiratory tract through the pipeline and generates positive pressure in the upper respiratory tract.
Gas flows directly to alveoli through respiratory tract and bronchus, which is inspiratory period; On the contrary, when exhaling, the ventilator pipeline is connected with the atmosphere, and the alveoli are larger than atmospheric pressure, so the gas in the alveoli is automatically eliminated until it is equal to atmospheric pressure. In this way, the collapsed area of the upper respiratory tract is forcibly expanded by the airflow, so that the respiratory tract is always open when inhaling and exhaling, ensuring the smooth flow of breathing airflow and preventing the occurrence of apnea, hypopnea and snoring in various postures and sleep stages. Thereby eliminating hypoxemia, hypercapnia and sleep splitting caused by snoring. The chest or whole body of the patient who uses the ventilator for the first time needs to be placed in a closed container, and the respiratory tract is connected with the atmosphere. This ventilator has been eliminated because of its large size, high power and low ventilation efficiency.
Ventilators generally need to be used for a long time, and sometimes they will produce symptoms of dry breathing. Therefore, when in use, patients should always wet the respiratory tract, that is, use normal saline to make pipes. When using the ventilator, we should pay attention to adjusting the parameters of the machine to make it within the comfort range of the patient. If the pressure is inappropriate, the respiratory frequency and tidal volume will be inappropriate, which will cause respiratory discomfort and affect the quality of sleep.
During the treatment, the causes of snoring have not been eliminated or alleviated, so patients will snore after not using the ventilator. In addition to this formal treatment, we should also pay attention to strengthening physical exercise and maintaining good living habits. Avoid alcohol and tobacco hobbies, because smoking will aggravate respiratory symptoms, and drinking alcohol, especially before going to bed, will aggravate snoring, nocturnal respiratory disorders and hypoxemia. If you are obese, you should actively lose weight and strengthen exercise. To do this, it is not difficult to say goodbye to snoring and enjoy a sweet sleep.