Perspective, J Sleep Disor Treat Care Vol: 9 Issue: 6
Sleep Snoring, Diagnosis and Treatment
Shabad Harika*
Department of Microbiology, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
*Corresponding Author:
Shabad Harika
Department of Microbiology
Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
E-mail: harikashabad19@gmail.com
Received: December 01, 2020 Accepted: December 15, 2020 Published: December 22, 2020
Citation: Harika S (2020) Sleep Snoring, Diagnosis and Treatment. J Sleep Disor: Treat Care 9:6. (246)
Abstract
To diagnose your condition, your doctor will review your signs and symptoms, and your medical history. Your doctor will also perform a physical examination. Your doctor may ask your partner some questions about when and how you snore to help assess the severity of the problem. If your child snores, you'll be asked about the severity of your child's snoring. You could request AN imaging take a look at, like AN X-ray, a CT scan or resonance imaging. These tests check the structure of your airway for issues, like an abnormality.
Keywords: Sleep Snoring
Introduction
To diagnose your condition, your doctor will review your signs and symptoms, and your medical history. Your doctor will also perform a physical examination. Your doctor may ask your partner some questions about when and how you snore to help assess the severity of the problem. If your child snores, you'll be asked about the severity of your child's snoring. You could request AN imaging take a look at, like AN X-ray, a CT scan or resonance imaging. These tests check the structure of your airway for issues, like an abnormality.
Sleep Study
Depending on the severity of your snoring and alternative symptoms, your doctor might want to conduct a sleep study. Sleep studies could generally be done reception. However, relying upon your alternative medical issues and alternative sleep symptoms, you'll ought to keep long at a sleep center to endure AN in-depth analysis of your respiration throughout sleep by a study, referred to as a polysomnography. In a polysomnography, you are connected to several sensors and discovered long. throughout the sleep study, the subsequent data is recorded:
- Brain waves
- Blood Oxygen level
- Heart rate
- Breathing rate
- Sleep stages
- Eye and leg movements
Treatment
To treat your snoring, life styles changes must needed
- Losing weight
- Avoiding alcohol near to time of day
- Treating nasal congestion
- Avoiding sleep deprivation
- Avoiding sleeping on your back
For snoring amid OSA, your doctor could suggest:
Oral Appliances: Oral appliances are form-fitting dental mouthpieces that facilitate advance the position of your jaw, tongue and palate to stay your airway open. If you select to use AN oral appliance, you may work along with your dental specialist to optimize the work and position of the appliance. you may additionally work along with your sleep specialist to form certain the oral appliance is functioning as supposed. Dental visits could also be necessary a minimum of once each six months throughout the primary year, so a minimum of annually subsequently, to possess the work checked and to assess your oral health.
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP): This approach involves sporting a mask over your nose or mouth whereas you sleep. The mask directs controlled air from a little side pump to your airway to stay it open throughout sleep. CPAP (SEE-pap) eliminates snoring and is most frequently accustomed treating snoring once related to OSA.
Upper airway surgery: There are variety of procedures that ask for to open the higher airway and stop vital narrowing throughout sleep through a range of techniques.
For example, during a procedure referred to as surgery (UPPP), you are given general anesthetics and your MD tightens and trims excess tissues from your throat — a sort of operate for your throat. Another procedure referred to as os advancement (MMA) involves moving the higher and lower jaws forward, that helps open the airway. Radiofrequency tissue ablation employs a low-intensity radiofrequency signal to shrink tissue within the palate, tongue or nose.