What is snoring?

The reasons for snoring are as follows:

1. Poor nasal ventilation, such as nasal polyps, turbinate hypertrophy, deviated nasal septum and sinusitis, leads to poor nasal ventilation.

2. tonsil hypertrophy causes pharyngeal stenosis.

3. Obesity leads to thick and short neck and fat accumulation in soft palate, which leads to throat stenosis and snoring.

4, tongue drop, mostly due to drinking, fatigue and age, resulting in decreased muscle tension, causing tongue drop.

5, anatomical factors, such as micrognathia, can cause snoring.

If you treat snoring, please check with an otolaryngologist, and do PSG if necessary, that is, sleep breathing monitoring to determine the degree of snoring and see if there is obstructive breathing sleep apnea. If there are anatomical factors, such as nasal polyps, deviated nasal septum, pharyngeal stenosis, tonsil hypertrophy, etc. , need surgery. If there is no surgical indication, you can wear a positive pressure ventilator to control snoring. The above means are the most commonly used means to treat snoring at present. If you snore occasionally, you can adjust your sleep habits according to the cause of snoring. For example, often sleep on your side, don't lie on your back, don't drink, don't be too tired, and so on. The above methods can also reduce snoring. The reasons for snoring are very complicated. It is not only the application of certain drugs that will alleviate the clinical symptoms of patients. You'd better check it first. Sometimes the patient's turbinate hypertrophy leads to nasal congestion, and sometimes there are polyps growing in the nasal cavity or cysts in the nasal cavity, which block the patient's airway. Sometimes it is because the patient's throat mucosa is inflamed and the pharyngeal cavity mucosa is swollen, which leads to the symptoms of snoring. There are also patients who snore because they are too obese, so they must be treated symptomatically. For nasal congestion, try spraying mometasone furoate aqueous nasal spray and taking Tongqiao Biyan tablets orally. If the patient is too obese, he must lose weight and exercise. Try to lie on your side when sleeping, try not to drink refreshing things such as coffee or tea, so as not to affect the quality of sleep, and avoid overwork during the day. If the patient has inflammation in the pharyngeal cavity, oral roxithromycin capsules can be considered for anti-inflammation, and the snoring situation should be improved to some extent after the inflammation subsides.