Modern treatment for snoring and sleep apnea syndrome

Snoring is a common symptom that affects adults and increases with advancing age…
It is estimated that people aged 60 years and older snore at a rate of about 60%, causing problems to their partners but by acquiring the same health problems. A higher percentage of snore men, the obese, smokers and those who have close construction, pharynx, small chin, short or thick neck. A percentage of all those who snore suffer from this dangerous syndrome, sleep apnea.
The symptoms of the syndrome of sleep apnea is the intense snoring that is interrupted for 10-20 minutes and this is repeated hundreds of times during the night sleep.
The result is to drop the percentage of oxygen in the blood, the heart, shows arrhythmias, all of the vital organs, to suffer, until the brain due to the hypoxia (lack of oxygen) to give a mandate to get violent inhalation of the patient. So the man never sleeps deep, or she wakes up abruptly, asking for air.
The result is that in the morning the patient has severe headache, dry mouth and constant fatigue, inability to concentrate and drowsiness. The treatment of the syndrome is primarily surgical. Regardless of age, since a large percentage of patients are over 60 years of age, can have a surgery and get rid of this dangerous syndrome and its complications. Of course, will be preceded by a detailed pre-operational check which includes:
-Special ENT examination and endoscopy of the nose and larynx.
We’ll track the points you are cutting off the breath at bedtime.
The most modern surgery for snoring and apnea is the φαρυγγοϋπερώϊος plastic . In surgery this is included out of the grape, or the uplifting of this together with all the walls of the pharynx. The uvula should not be removed .
When there are strongly enlarged tonsils, these should be removed in order to widen the lateral dimensions of the pharynx. And all this surgery is done with laser. Furthermore, it is proposed ablation for tightening the walls of the palate. But in general the design of the intervention is done individually depending on the incident.
Some patients have severe obstruction of nasal breathing, and then we have to intervene and in the nose. You usually need to straighten the nasal septum and shrinking the nasal cavities. The procedures in the nose and throat can be done at the same time or be done individually.
The discussion with a qualified surgeon ENT will solve the concerns and accordingly the work of the patient and of the unique nature of each incident will plan one or two surgeries. As for the recovery is easy. They need a course of painkillers for procedures in the pharynx and tonsils, and soft and cold foods for 10 days while the physical exercise is not permitted for 20 days.
Writes the Argiro Kypraiou, surgeon, neck doctor, ρινοπλαστικός, cond. department of the MOTHER