Chen Qiaoen revealed that she has sleep apnea. What is this disease?

Science Fiction Network, January 6 (Xu Mingyang) Today, actress Chen Qiaoen posted on a social platform that she had suffered from severe sleep apnea. At first, her husband found that she snored loudly and often stopped breathing. After that, she went to the hospital for a deep brain wave test, and the results showed that when she entered deep sleep, she would stop breathing about 25 times an hour, and each time the breathing stopped for more than 50 seconds, which was a severe sleep apnea.

Sleep apnea syndrome is a sleep disorder in which breathing stops during sleep. Sleep disorders refer to abnormal sleep quantity or abnormal behavior during sleep. Depending on the cause, sleep apnea syndrome can be divided into three types: obstructive, central and mixed.

Obstructive sleep apnea is usually caused by narrowing and obstruction of the upper airway. Enlarged tonsils and an elongated soft palate can both lead to narrowing and obstruction of the upper airway.

Central nervous system sleep apnea refers to a disorder in which the respiratory center becomes damaged due to stroke or trauma and is unable to transmit breathing commands normally.

Mixed sleep apnea is a mixture of obstructive sleep apnea and central nervous system sleep apnea.

People with sleep apnea syndrome will show symptoms such as snoring and very loud sound, daytime sleepiness, apnea during sleep, and even sudden death at night in severe cases. This disease is more common in obese people and people with neurological diseases.

The doctor diagnosed Chen Qiaoen as snoring because her throat collapsed during deep sleep, which prevented her from breathing air, until her brain woke her up. She had throat surgery last year to remove the flat line in her throat, and has now recovered.