Why Do I Snore? Oriental Medicine Tell You Why

Why Do I Snore? Oriental Medicine Tell You Why

            
   < Dr. Lee's Sinus School Tells You Why>

The Causes of Snoring

 

 

The nose serves as a critical gateway in breathing. The causes that block the gateway include: acute rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, chronic rhinitis, deviated nasal septum, nasal polyps and sinusitis. 

 

 

 

The blocking by the soft palate is another common cause, since it is the most susceptible part to vibrate. When the uvula or other palate tissues hang lose, the respiratory way becomes easily narrowed. While this is more common to obese people, it can also happen to the slim-shaped with stretched palate tissues or have wide wrinkles in the back of the uvula.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On both sides of the palate, tonsils are located. Those were commonly known to degenerate as people pass their adolescence, however, not inconsiderable number of adults still have them. Since they are located on the lateral sides of the respiratory tract, large tonsils can easily block the respiratory tract. 

 

Adult obesity could be another cause. The tissues surrounding the respiratory tract can be filled with fats, narrowing the air way in the nasal cavity and sinuses, along with the pharynx, larynx which are also parts of the air way.

 

Another part that can cause obstruction is the back part of the tongue. People with normal respiratory tract does not experience obstructed airway when they lie on their back, however, people with larger tongues or pushed-back tongues might have constricted respiratory tract.

 

The facial skeleton could be one of the structural problems causing snoring. Narrow, recessed and protruding jaws belong to these structural problems. Narrow jawed people may suffer from restricted airway from having their relatively larger tongues being pushed back by the jaw.

 

As a part of normal aging process, muscle elasticity can diminish, inducing snoring. Also, chronic snoring can damage the uvula and palate tissues by its vibration (not just damaging the sensory cells, but elasticity in the muscles). This in turn, maintains the clear airway more difficult. 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

Dr. Lee's Sinus School #3 Self-Remedy for Your Sinusitis

Dr. Lee's Sinus School: Dry Eye Syndrome (Am I DES Patient)

Dr. Lee's Sinus School

Eye disorders caused by rhinitis and sinusitis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

# Dry Eye Syndrome DES: Ophthalmic Disorder or Nasal Disorder?

 

DES is a condition caused by a lack of moisture on the surface of the eye. The cause of the dryness is the heat that dissipates moisture from the eye. The heat evaporates the tear that lubricates the oscular surface. When there are not enough tears, the eye becomes dry and cause redness and feeling gritty. In worsened state, the eyestrain becomes constant whether the eyes are opened or closed.

   

The nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses function as an anti-overheating device for the eyes. If eye strain is present, caused by DES, then it must observe whether there is sufficient ventilation in the cavity and sinuses. Once clear ventilation is restored in those areas, even serious cases of DES experience significant improvement.

 

Here is the summary of how DES progresses.

 

Stage 1. More frequent blinking

Stage 2. More forceful blinking, involving the eyelid muscles

Stage 3. Frequent bloodshot eyes

Stage 4. Frequent eyestrain and display eye discharge more than others

Stage 5. Increased light sensitivity and soreness in the eyes  

Stage 6. Feeling burning sensation in the eyes when exposed to dry or polluted air

Stage 7. Eye sight becomes blear and deteriorate

Stage 8. Eye sight becomes foggy and feeling pain

Stage 9. Frequent infection in the eyelids

Stage 10. When woke up in the morning, the eyes are dry and red

Stage 11. Regardless the eyes closed or opened, the eyestrain remains

 

DES should be distinguished into two: dry eye syndrome and extraocular muscle pain. The reason for the distinction lies in the difference in their respective treatments. The eyes suffer from DES are very sensitive; they are sensitive enough to determine their sizes, the location of the strained muscles and the degree of pain simply by interviewing the patient. It usually starts off from bloodshot eyes, then stiffness metastasize to the eyelids and the brow. This further develops into muscle strain in the same regions, indicating more serious DES. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Typical Eye Strain can be relieved by taking a sleep, however, when this is not the case, such as having blood shot eyes shortly after waking up or right after waking up from a sleep, it is showing the signs of blocked paranasal sinuses. Overnight, the heat could not be released from the eye, but when the eye comes in contact with the air directly, it takes away some of the heat, hence, it lessens the redness in the eye.

 

 Interviewing a patient about the condition, the tiredness and color of their eyes, is a critical in making a proper prognosis. If the patient feeling the eyes somewhat replenished, the paranasal sinuses might not be completely blocked.

 

If the patient needs a splash of cold water on the eyes to start the day, the paranasal sinuses most likely to be completely blocked and requires more prolonged treatment.  

 

If you wish to know more about correlation with your dry eyes and sinuses , please look up the book, "Sinus School" which contains many treatment cases of patients I treated for 25 years, with focus on sinusitis and rhinitis. A lot of problems related to eyes were actually a matter of sinus problems.

 

 

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Self-Remedy for Your Sinusitis: A Suction Device Is A Must-Have Item for Your Sinusitis

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   Self-Remedy for Your Sinusitis: A Suction Device Is A Must-Have Item for Your Sinusitis
   Below video contains detailed information on self-remedy for your sinusitis. Please watch!

  
   I opened up a sinus school for those who want to treat their sinusitis at home,
   which is a self- remedy that you can apply at home.

   This video explains how you can blow your nose using a self-suction device.

  


If you wish to know more about rhinitis and sinusitis and how to cure those problems with Korean
acupuncture therapy, please go to www.amazon.com and search "sinus school"

This is the book that contains 25 years for experience in treating rhinitis and sinusitis through acupunture therapy. I'd say, do not receive a surgery in order to cure sinusitis. LWM is a fundamental method that recovers the original condition of your sinuses.

Dr. Lee's Sinus School #1. Never Receive a Sinusitis Surgery

The Reasons to Avoid Sinus Surgery

 

 

    

Taking high dosage of antibiotics to treat inflammation does not improve sinusitis easily. Consequently, permanent surgical removal of the membranes inflamed by rhinitis is recommended. This, however, does not provide fundamental cure.

 

Fundamental cure may mean revitalized nose that can defend against colds and sinusitis. Observing many cases where people received surgeries, avoiding the common cold altogether is not possible.

 

The reasons are as follow: Neither the surgery strengthens the nasal mucosa itself nor enhances the body's immune system. Moreover, the most critical reason to avoid surgery is the permanent loss of the unique functions carried out by the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses.

 

 

Surgeries and antibiotics may decongest the nose, but surgical exeresis of the affected membranes results in permanent discard of the functional layer of the nasal mucosa.

 

 

 

On the contrary, pinpricking in the nasal mucosa is an innovative treatment that not only reduces the swelling to clear the nose but it also revitalizes the membranes to stand against sinus colds. It must be acknowledged that sinusitis surgery, which consists of widening the ostia in the paranasal sinuses to draw the stagnant mucus and removing of the thin walls of the nasal cavity, might unblock the nose, but it obliterates the critical function of the paranasal sinuses: anti-overheating device for the brain.

 

The head and nose suction therapy, that suctions fluid in the paranasal sinuses, is an innovative way of effectively treating sinus infection. Based on prior clinical experience, acupuncture and suction therapy are infallible cures for for sinus infection and the suction therapy provides a sophisticated means to do self-care for sinusitis.

 

If you wish to know more about Dr. Lee's Sinus Treatment, please go to her youtube

channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGWF97pcSq4

 

 

 

Or you can read her most updated book on sinus treatment that explains her 25 years

of treatment in sinusitis and rhinitis. (www.amazon.com)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treating Rhinitis and Sinusitis: Surgery is Not the Answer

Treating Rhinitis and Sinusitis: Surgery is Not the Answer

 

<Dr. Woojeong Lee say surgery is not the answer to treat rhinitis and sinusitis>

Rhinitis means inflammation of the mucous membrane inside the nose. Depending on the symptoms, rhinitis categorized into acute rhinitis, chronic rhinitis, hypertrophic rhinitis, atrophic rhinitis, allergic rhinitis.

 

 

chronic rhinitis: When Medication Does No Lunger Relieve your Symptoms:

 

Drug treatment alone suffice to treat acute rhinitis at its early stage. However, recurring rhinitis diminishes the effectiveness of the treatments, patients do not feel their noses clear. Prolonged inflammation causes the nasal mucosa to lose much of its elasticity, however, there is more important reason.

 

This can be explained by the post-rhinitis swelling which remained inflamed to a certain degree. The swelling is not caused by an infection, but by remaining hypertrophic tissues.

 

If this repeats year after year, cold after cold, the hypertopic tissues accumulates to block the nose, which are hard to relieve with anti-inflammatory drugs. (The inflamed nasal mucous membrane secrets more mucus relative to its engorged state; this currently describes as chronic rhinitis.)

 

The limited efficacy of the drug therapy in treating the mucous membranes leads to volume-reduction treatments to widen the space of the nasal cavity. This would reduce the secretion and therefore, congestion would be resolved. Western medicine, therefore, has to offer no other than surgical options.

 

 

 

Alternatively, Oriental medicine provides a non-surgical solution, blood-pricking therapy on the nasal mucous membranes.

 

You need no-surgical solution because blood-pricking therapy will help recover the symptoms of chronic rhinitis!!

 

 

<At the clinic cosoom, it provides the training program for doctors to treat rhinitis and sinusitis with a blood-pricking therapy>

 

 

Using a special bloodletting needle, slightly penetrate into the affected nasal mucosa to draw blood.

 

Repeating the procedure assures the reduction of the volume to the desirable size of the membranes. Rather than waiting for the therapy to be performed as the last resort, when drugs fail to offer help, pricking the nose in advance, such as when contracted a cold, may save people from severe stuffy nose. This is an ideal as killing two birds with one stone, as acupuncture also relieves blood stasis to revitalizes the membrane.

 

 

Dr. Lee's method, LWM, is considered the most innovative treatment that heals rhinitis and sinusitis only with a blood-pricking therapy in the Korean oriental medicine circle. She has 25 years of experience in treating sinusitis and rhinitis after she graduated from the Kyunghee university of oriental medicine. Those who recognized the effectiveness of her treatment receive training lessons every weekend at the Cosoom clinic. Those who graduated from her sinus school, are authorized with this treatment and provides LWM at their clinics.

 

If you wish to know more about her treatment, you can read her most recent book translated into Eng. on the www. amazon. com.

 

It's called " the Sinus School"

 

 

 

You can purchase the book on the www. amazon. com and if you wish to know more about her method, then you can visit her youtubechannel. You will no regret watching it.

 

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