▌Harms of sleep apnea syndromes

Sleep apnea syndrome is a sleep disorder in which breathing stops during sleep. The most common cause is upper airway obstruction, which often ends with loud snoring, body twitching, or arm swinging. The main cause is upper airway stenosis caused by obesity, allergic rhinitis, nasal polyps, tonsil hypertrophy, soft palate relaxation, long and thick palatal ptosis, and tongue hypertrophy. Sleep apnea is often accompanied by sleep defects, daytime fatigue, bradycardia, arrhythmia, and EEG wakefulness.

Sleep-disordered breathing can harm the cardiovascular system, and can also lead to neuroregulatory dysfunction, endocrine disorders and hemodynamic changes, resulting in multi-system and multi-organ damage. In severe cases, patients may suffocate during sleep. In children, it can affect physical and mental development.

▌Guo Xiheng, a well-known expert in the field of sleep respiratory diseases, made a personal diagnosis

By using advanced instruments and equipment, we screen nasal diseases such as rhinitis, sinusitis, nasal polyps, nasal septum deviation, adenoid hyperplasia and nasopharyngeal carcinoma, combined with sleep breathing monitoring and other items, to find out the causes. Guo Xiheng, a well-known expert in the field of sleep respiratory diseases in China and director of the sleep Respiratory Center of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, personally visits, evaluates and diagnoses various sleep disorders, and performs drug or surgical treatment.