Do you have sleep apnea? (Sleep apnea & snoring)

Dr. Lee's Sinus School : Sleep Apnea & Snoring

 

Do you have sleep apnea?

Hello, I am Dr. Lee, president of Sinus school. Today let me tell you symptoms and treatment of sleep apnea. = )

 

It is actuall a common disorder where you have one or more pauses in breathing or shallow

breaths in your sleep. Yet, it can be serious because your breathing repeatedly stops and starts.

 

Here is the stage of snoring. Find out which stage you are in now.

 

 

 

The Level of Snoring

 

Stage 0: Clear inhaling with no sound during a deep sleep - Healthy

Stage 1: Slight snoring at the beginning of a deep sleep - Good

Stage 2: Periodical snoring - Slightly blocked sinuses

Stage 3: Repeat loud and soft snoring – Heavily congested sinuses

Stage 4: No snoring, but breathing through the mouth - Worse than Stage 3

Stage 5: Sleeping with an open mouth

Stage 6: Possible sleep apnea syndrome

 

Stage 0 indicates healthy state of the sinuses. Stage 1, which exhibits slight snoring in the begging of sleep is considered to be in a good state. Stage 2 indicates a partial blockage somewhere in the paranasal sinuses. In stage 3, it exhibits the alternating pattern of loud and soft snoring, caused by more blocked sinuses.

 

People who belong to stage 4 may not have loud snoring, but mouth breathing is being carried out in a subtle manner. No one hardly recognizes the seriousness of the condition, but this could be more devastating than snoring. The sinuses are more blocked than the previous stage.

 

 

 

 

If the sinuses become more obstructed than stage 3, nasal breathing becomes more difficult, leading the mouth to open. Breathing through both mouth and the nose does not vibrate the uvula. Subtle mouth breathing does not create enough negative pressure to move the uvula to generate sound.

 

 

 

 

In some cases, people inhale through the nose and exhale through their mouth, making it difficult to define it as snoring, however, the blockage is more serious than the 3rd stage. Feeling dryness in the throat, lips, or mouth after waking up, or soreness in the throat, or drooling marks mouth breathing. People who frequently suffer from the following symptoms should look into this matter carefully: sore throat, tonsillitis, slight cough, bronchitis, laryngitis.

 

At stage 5, people, whose sinuses are almost completely blocked, complain fatigue after waking up. Their mouth is opened during their sleep and the uvula vibrates over night. At this stage, people begin to think the snoring could be the underlying reason for the tiredness.

 

Sleep apnea becomes apparent at stage 6, much of the ostiomeatal complex is constricted, inducing severe breathing difficulty. While this stage of sleep apnea is very critical, stage 4 requires the utmost attention to diagnose. Most patients do not snore at that stage, but they are unaware of mouth breathing without snoring is more critical than snoring with their mouth closed.

 

I can assure that restoring the ventilation in the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses can improve snoring as well as sleep apnea in every stage of snoring. 

 

Okay, hope this information would be of help for you to discover your correct symptoms.

 

Next time, I will reach you with "what is sleep apnea?"

 

 

 

 

Your snoring, sleep apnea, rhinitis or sinusitis can be cured through acupuncture.

It is a fundamental treatment that help the original function of nose.

That is the power of Korean medicine with thousands of history.

You can visit me in my clinic, located in

Goheung area.

 

Jellanamdo Goheung Podu myeon Jeongja gil 18

 

Tel: 82-61-832-6031

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