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Why do people snore when they sleep? Is there any way to relieve it?

Snoring not only affects the people around you, but also affects your own sleep quality. According to relevant studies, snoring is not a good sign of sleep, but a sign of physical discomfort during sleep.

Why do people snore when they sleep? Ordinary snoring is mostly caused by narrowed airways, enlarged tonsils, etc.. Generally speaking, it is actually poor breathing. Snoring can be caused by a variety of reasons:

1. Go to bed when you drink, drink before going to bed, the effect of alcohol will “paralyze” the muscles of the throat and relax, which is easy to cause snoring;

2. Stay up all night, stay up all night, sleep to the extreme, and sleep deeply, the muscles of the whole body are instantly relaxed, which in turn causes snoring;

3. Drink less water, and the throat is dry and congested, which is also easy to cause snoring;

4. Cold and stuffy nose, blocked nasal passages, shortness of breath with mouth, causing snoring;

5. Improper sleeping position, lying down and leaning back when sleeping, tongue falling back, blocking the throat and causing snoring.

If you have been troubled by snoring for a long time, or you have been troubled by the snoring of the person next to your pillow for a long time, you can take these methods to relieve the symptoms of snoring.

1. Insist on massaging the four health acupoints of Zhongwan, Yinlingquan, Tianshu and Fenglong every day;

2. Avoid smoking and drinking, because smoking can aggravate respiratory symptoms, and drinking can aggravate snoring, nighttime breathing disorders and hypoxemia;

3. Clean your mouth every night before going to bed, such as gargling, brushing your teeth, etc., which can effectively reduce snoring;

4. Choose a pillow with moderate softness and hardness, and the pillow should not be placed too high, which is conducive to comfortable breathing;

5. Take the sleeping position in the lateral position, especially the right lateral position;

6. Lose weight. Losing a little weight can reduce the fat tissue in the back of the throat and reduce or even stop snoring.

However, if the above methods have no effect after trying, or there is abnormal snoring, such as strong or irregular snoring, it is necessary to go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible to see if it is suffering from sleep apnea syndrome. Listen to the doctor, get timely treatment and sleep well.

Plus1Health has a free snoring app “Snore Tracker“, which can be downloaded and used in the mobile app store. There is also a sleep recorder device that can do sleep monitoring and screen for sleep apnea syndrome.

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What are the methods of checking for atrial fibrillation？

Atrial fibrillation(short for atrial fibrillation) is the most common arrhythmia. There are as many as 10 million patients with atrial fibrillation in China, and with the increase of age, the prevalence of atrial fibrillation increases sharply10%.

Methods of atrial fibrillation screening include blood pressure measurement, pulse palpation, electrocardiogram screening, long-range holter screening, implantable holter screening and smartphones.

Through pulse palpation, automatic blood pressure measurement, etc., although such methods are simple and easy to implement, the probability of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis is high.

Most electrocardiograms need to be performed in medical institutions, and can only record the heart rate for about 10 seconds. For patients with few and irregular atrial fibrillation attacks, the inspection rate is low.

The implantable holter is more expensive and requires implanted equipment, only to screen for atrial fibrillation, and most patients are currently unwilling to accept it.

With the current popularity of smartphones, almost everyone has one. Single-lead ECG recordings through smartphones can track heart rhythms for a longer period of time, which is expected to further improve the detection rate of atrial fibrillation.

For patients with recessive screening by ordinary ECG, the application of long-range holter and implantable holter should be increased to make up for the short recording time of ordinary ECG and reduce the missed diagnosis rate of asymptomatic atrial fibrillation.

Plus1Health has an ECG monitoring applet and a supporting ECG monitoring solution, and can also realize the remote ECG monitoring function, which can perform ECG monitoring at home and issue real-time ECG reports.

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What are the ways to check for sleep apnea syndrome？

Sleep apnea syndrome is a very troublesome sleep breathing disease. The main clinical manifestations of patients are sleep snoring at night with apnea and daytime sleepiness. This disease may also cause complications such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, and diabetes. Even some patients will die suddenly at night, so what methods will be used in the clinical diagnosis of this disease?

The first inspection must be carried out by a routine ENT specialist. The nose, pharynx, throat, and tongue are all parts that must be inspected. Through these inspections, doctors can roughly determine the patient’s basic symptoms.

Secondly, the patient must cooperate with the doctor to perform a cranial X-ray examination. The main purpose of this examination is to locate the position of the hyoid bone and the length of the soft palate. It is an indicator that guides the obstruction of the bony structure of our upper airway and whether surgical intervention is required, such as guiding the operation of the hyoid bone.

Next, CT and MRI examinations are required. This examination allows the doctor to understand the sagittal diameter, transverse diameter, and the thickness of the soft tissue in the airway, and then can judge the level of obstruction for subsequent surgical treatment and other treatments. The plan provides an important basis.

Finally, the patient must cooperate with the doctor to carry out fiberoptic endoscopy. The fiberoptic endoscopy is mainly to check the obstruction plane of the nasopharyngeal and throat in the patient. The patient is required to lie on the mattress for continuous monitoring for 6 hours, and a complete The data can identify whether the patient has central apnea or peripheral apnea, which is of great significance for the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome.

The above four inspection methods can help patients diagnose sleep apnea syndrome, but for various reasons, the operation is not very convenient.Plus1Health has professional sleep monitoring equipment, which can perform sleep monitoring and sleep apnea syndrome screening. It can also be done at home. It is easy to operate and can produce sleep monitoring reports in real time.

Each patient will have different clinical symptoms, so the examination methods applied are also different. It is required that after the patient finds that he has relevant symptoms, he should immediately go to the hospital to cooperate with the doctor for examination, and then according to the examination results, determine the next treatment plan.

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Who needs sleep breathing monitoring?

Many people now suffer from breathing and sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea syndrome. In order to understand the condition and give a reasonable treatment plan, sleep apnea monitoring is usually required. So, which groups of people are suitable for sleep breathing monitoring?

1. People who always snore while sleeping

Sleep apnea monitoring is usually required if you are always snoring during sleep or are accompanied by significant sleep asymmetry.

2. People with unexplained daytime sleepiness

People with unexplained daytime sleepiness also need sleep apnea monitoring. If you don’t sleep well the night before, you will often feel sleepy during the day the next day, but if you get enough sleep, you may have sleep apnea disease, and you should do sleep apnea monitoring in time.

3. People with obvious arrhythmia at night

If there is obvious arrhythmia at night, it is likely to be caused by sleep apnea syndrome, and sleep breathing monitoring should be done in time.

4. People with refractory hypertension

General high blood pressure can be effectively controlled by taking only 1~2 kinds of drugs, but some hypertensive patients are still unable to control it after taking more than three kinds of drugs. This situation is refractory hypertension. People also need to do sleep breathing monitoring.

Plus1Health has sleep recorder, which is used for non-contact detection of human heart rate, respiration rate, and sleep statu, equipped with Tinew cloud platform and “Plus1Health” APP.Ready to use, monitor when you lie down, report when you wake up, easy to operate, no contact with human skin, comfortable and non-sensing; no signal transmission from sensors, no radiation, safe and reliable for human body; low-power design, USB power supply, safe and environmentally friendly ; Real-time detection, real-time analysis, real-time early warning. Sleep records also include screening for sleep apnea, preventing disease risks, and providing data basis and analysis for targeted improvement of sleep quality.

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What are the symptoms of abnormal heart rate?

In your life, have you ever had your heartbeat speed up suddenly, feel like you want to faint, or your heartbeat suddenly slowed down? Sometimes you have to stick it on your chest carefully and listen to it to be sure that you still have a heartbeat. In fact, this is all heartbeat. The most basic manifestation of abnormality. What are the symptoms of arrhythmia?

1. Heart rate acceleration: People of different ages have different heart rates. Children’s heart rates are faster than adults, but when the heart rate exceeds the normal range, it is called too fast. In general, the heart rate of normal people will increase significantly after exercise, emotional or physical labor, and children are no exception. Such an increase in heart rate is a normal phenomenon, and the heart rate will return to normal after it calms down.

2.Bradycardia: The heart rate of normal people is 60 to 100 beats per minute, and less than 60 beats per minute is bradycardia. The common cause of bradycardia is sinus bradycardia, which is usually divided into two types: pathological type and physiological type. Sinus bradycardia may also be a physiological phenomenon. The average heart rate and pulse per minute are 50 to 60 beats per minute. Due to long-term exercise, the heart rate of athletes can be around 40 per minute. Normal people also experience heartbeat during sleep. Slow down, these are normal phenomena. And if the heart rate or pulse is lower than 50 per minute, it is mostly pathological and needs targeted treatment.

3.Arrhythmia: Heart disease often leads to the pathological phenomenon of abnormal heartbeat. In a resting state, patients with less than 50 times per minute should go to the hospital to check their physical condition in time. However, if emotional abnormalities such as anxiety, sadness, excitement and other excessive emotions are excluded, and the heart rate is above 100 per minute, the patient should consider whether the abnormal heart rate is caused by a chronic wasting disease.

Severe arrhythmias can lead to angina, acute left heart failure, or shock. Some even cause death, so patients must be treated in time to avoid unnecessary harm. Usually, software or equipment can be used for monitoring. Plus1Health has a free heart rate app “Heart Rate“, which can be downloaded and used in the mobile application store, and the operation is simple and convenient. If you want to do longer-term accurate monitoring, you can use a sleep recorder for monitoring.

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What should you do if your heart rate is too fast?

Rapid heart rate refers to the condition that the heart rate exceeds 100 beats per minute, or when it is quiet, the heart rate is more than 80-90 beats per minute, and it will exceed 100 beats after an activity. This condition is actually a heart rate deviation.

If the heartbeat is particularly fast and accompanied by obvious discomfort, the following measures can be taken to deal with it:

1. Rest: You should rest in a sitting or supine position in a quiet environment;

2. Heart rate monitoring: At that time, it is necessary to monitor the heartbeat, pay attention to whether the frequency of the heartbeat is regular and how many times it can beat, which is more important for judging the condition;

3. Stimulation of the vagus nerve: If it is an arrhythmia attack, especially in patients who have been diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia in the past, it is characterized by sudden and sudden tachycardia, and the symptoms are more pronounced with the heart beats faster and feels uncomfortable. At this time, the vagus nerve can be stimulated to suppress the excessively fast heart rate. Common methods, such as pressing the eyeball or stimulating nausea and vomiting, can excite the vagus nerve, which may relieve the onset of supraventricular tachycardia to a certain extent;

4. Seek medical attention in time: If the heartbeat is very fast, and this kind of phenomenon occurs frequently, it is still necessary to go to the hospital to determine whether the heart rate is normal sinus tachycardia, atrial tachycardia, atrial fibrillation or supraventricular tachycardia, the only way to better determine the cause and prevent recurrence.

Plus1Health has a free heart rate app “Heart Rate“, which can be downloaded and used in the mobile app store. There are also sleep recorder devices that monitor heart rate, breathing rate and more.

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What are the symptoms and dangers of arrhythmia?

What are the main hazards of arrhythmia? Experts said that there are the following hazards that patients need to pay attention to:

First, serious arrhythmia can cause bradycardia, or arrhythmia syndromes such as tachycardia.

Second, when arrhythmia occurs, the changes in the systolic procedures of the atrium and the ventricle will cause abnormal blood circulation in the patient’s body, and the patient’s cardiac output will decrease by about 30%, which will cause the patient to experience some symptoms such as conscientiousness, chest tightness, and weakness.

Third, arrhythmia can lead to sudden death, among which ventricular tachycardia, cardiac too slow, the incidence of sudden death caused by ventricular fibrillation and conduction block is higher.

You must know that arrhythmia is very common in daily life. About 540,000 people die of sudden cardiac death in my country every year. Nearly 90% of sudden deaths are caused by arrhythmia, but people’s awareness of their harm is far from enough. It can be seen that, understanding cardiac arrhythmia is important.

The common uncomfortable symptoms of arrhythmia are episodic palpitations and palpitation. Patients will feel a sudden blockage in their throat and chest tightness. For severe patients, they will sometimes be accompanied by symptoms of dizziness, amaurosis, and sometimes aphasia. , hemiplegia and other cerebral infarction. Experts tell us that mild arrhythmia generally does not have much impact, but the onset time is long, and patients experience blackening, dizziness, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, and even sudden fainting and shock in some patients. At this time, you should go to the hospital in time, and you cann’t miss the best time for treatment.

For the treatment of arrhythmia, it is best to follow the principle of early treatment if there is a disease, and prevention if there is no disease. When you occasionally feel a little uncomfortable in your heart, you can first monitor it with equipment. We have an ECG record, the instrument can do this monitoring. At the same time, our patients should also live a regular life, have a reasonable diet, ensure adequate sleep, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and never ignore their illness.

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Is sleep apnea monitoring necessary for sleep-disordered breathing?

If there is nighttime snoring, irregular snoring and unexplained dry mouth in the morning, daytime sleepiness, fatigue and other symptoms, it should be highly suspected of sleep-disordered breathing. The main symptom of sleep-disordered breathing is nocturnal snoring. In the process of snoring, some patients have uneven snoring, with interruptions in the middle and even repeated awakenings. Patients with mild sleep-disordered breathing have no significant specific symptoms during the day. Patients with severe disease may have symptoms such as daytime drowsiness, morning headache, impatience, fatigue, decreased work efficiency, inability to relieve fatigue after sleep, dry mouth, increased nocturia, acid regurgitation and other symptoms, and are prone to complications such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, etc.

The etiology of sleep-disordered breathing is complex and may be derived from genetics, aging, living habits and environmental factors. In addition, obesity, nasal obstruction, pharyngeal stenosis, abnormal neuro-muscular tone regulation can all cause disease. Common causes of airway stenosis include adenoid hypertrophy, tonsil hypertrophy, micromandibular, nasal polyps and deviated nasal septum. Because the facial structure of the yellow race is different from that of the white race, some people who are not obese can also get the disease. In addition, factors such as the regulation function of the central nervous system on breathing and the regulation of airway muscle tension during sleep can also cause disease.

By changing living habits and environmental factors, the occurrence and development of sleep-disordered breathing can be prevented to a certain extent. Weight control starts with weight loss, which reduces the risk of developing sleep-disordered breathing. At the same time, establishing the habit of sleeping in the lateral position is helpful for preventing and reducing obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (commonly known as snoring). If the symptoms are severe, and the above measures alone cannot effectively control the symptoms, you should go to a professional medical institution for diagnosis and treatment. It should be emphasized that children who snoring need to seek medical attention in time, because childhood is a critical period for craniofacial development. If snoring and mouth breathing at this time, the craniofacial skeleton often develops into a craniofacial shape that is prone to snoring. It is easy to develop sleep-disordered breathing in adults. Correction of many structures often requires more invasive surgery and higher risk if treated in adulthood.

Sleep breathing monitoring is the most important test for diagnosing sleep-disordered breathing. If your doctor thinks sleep apnea monitoring is necessary, they will order the appropriate tests. Through sleep monitoring, it is possible to distinguish whether the symptoms of nighttime sleep arousal and daytime sleepiness are caused by snoring or other sleep disorders. In conclusion, sleep monitoring can provide a lot of information to help analyze and diagnose various sleep-related diseases, which is also the currently recognized gold indicator for the diagnosis of sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome. Through sleep apnea monitoring, combined with the clinical symptoms of patients, most patients can be diagnosed. A few special sleep disorders may require further examination to be diagnosed.

We have a sleep recorder that can be used for sleep monitoring, real-time monitoring of heart rate, breathing rate, body movement, turning over, getting out of bed, etc. It is equipped with the “TiNew” applet, which can issue sleep records and reports, and have remote viewing. , early warning and other functions, it can also do early screening of sleep apnea to prevent disease risks.

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Is sleep apnea monitoring necessary for snoring children?

In recent years, due to the increase of air pollution and other reasons, there have been more and more upper respiratory tract infections in children, resulting in more and more snoring in children caused by adenoid hypertrophy in the tonsils. In addition to tonsillar adenoids, tonsil hypertrophy and obesity, some rare syndromes such as down syndrome, mucopolysaccharide syndrome, craniofacial deformities, sickle cell disease and neuromuscular diseases can also cause snoring in children. Sleep apnea monitoring is currently the gold standard for the diagnosis of sleep apnea syndrome in children.

Sleep breathing monitoring has the following benefits:

1.Distinguish whether children’s snoring is caused by obstruction or neuromuscular, so as to take different measures for different reasons.

2.Determine the severity of snoring in children, take different treatment measures before and after surgery, minimize postoperative respiratory suffocation for severe children, and reduce unnecessary postoperative treatment for mild children. For children who are not suitable for immediate surgery, positive pressure ventilation should be used to improve the respiratory status and quality of life of children.

3.The comparison of sleep monitoring before and after surgery can clarify the degree of improvement of the child. If the child still has hypoxia after surgery, further measures should be taken to better improve the sleep condition of the child.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder, which can monitor heart rate, breathing rate, body movement, turning over, getting out of bed, etc. in real time. It can also perform early screening for sleep apnea to prevent disease risks.

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When should children snoring need sleep apnea monitoring?

Snoring needs sleep monitoring in the following categories:

1.Long-term snoring;

2. Snoring and breathing pauses;

3. Mouth breathing when sleeping；

4. It is easy to wake up if you can’t sleep well.

If the child is snoring for a long time and the sound is relatively loud, there will be sudden snoring and breathing pauses; or mouth breathing during sleep; If you don’t sleep well, or move around unsteadily, etc., you should pay attention and need to be checked. Because in this case, when the snoring stops and becomes weak, it actually warns the body of repeated hypoxia, which will lead to interruption of sleep and unsteady sleep. Children’s deep sleep and REM sleep time will be shortened. Deep sleep is very important for physical development, and REM sleep is also related to the development of intelligence.

Long-term hypoxia will seriously endanger the growth and development of children and intellectual development, and will also cause children to be anxious during the day, which will seriously affect emotional management and learning ability. So if this happens, seek medical attention as soon as possible. If your doctor thinks sleep apnea monitoring is necessary, they will order the appropriate tests. Through sleep monitoring, it is possible to distinguish whether the symptoms of nighttime sleep arousal and daytime sleepiness are caused by snoring or other sleep disorders. In conclusion, sleep monitoring can provide a lot of information to help analyze and diagnose various sleep-related diseases, which is also the currently recognized gold indicator for the diagnosis of sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome. Through sleep apnea monitoring, combined with the clinical symptoms of patients, most patients can be diagnosed. A few special sleep disorders may require further examination to be diagnosed.

Plus1Health has a sleep recorder that can be used for sleep monitoring, real-time monitoring of heart rate, breathing rate, body movement, turning over, getting out of bed, etc. It is equipped with the “TiNew” applet, which can issue sleep records and reports, and have remote viewing. , early warning and other functions, it can also do early screening of sleep apnea to prevent disease risks.