54-year-old Huang Lei attracted attention when he slept while wearing a ventilator. Experts: It has reached moderate to severe condition and may lead to sudden death in severe cases.

Recently, the image of well-known actor Huang Lei, 54, sleeping while wearing a ventilator has attracted widespread attention. He said that he snored severely for a long time and was accompanied by nocturnal apnea, and needed a ventilator to assist ventilation. Subsequently, the topic "Huang Lei wears a ventilator to sleep" became a hot search topic.

According to media reports, some experts said after learning that Huang Lei's "severe snoring" is medically called "obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome."

Its typical manifestations include repeated apnea during sleep, each pause lasting more than 10 seconds, dry mouth and headache in the morning, and daytime drowsiness.

This long-term cerebral hypoxia can also cause high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, etc., and even increase the risk of sudden death at night.

Huang Lei wears a ventilator, which shows that his obstructive sleep apnea syndrome has reached moderate to severe severity.

It is understood that obstructive sleep apnea is a sleep breathing disease with complex causes.

Repeated episodes of nocturnal hypoxia and hypercapnia caused by apnea can lead to complications such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, and cerebrovascular disease, and can even cause arrhythmia and sudden death at night.

Therefore, the disease is a potentially fatal sleep breathing disorder.

It is worth noting that to prevent obstructive sleep apnea, risk factors should be controlled in life, such as weight management, abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, and careful use of sedative-hypnotic drugs and other drugs that can cause or aggravate the condition.

In addition, correct the underlying diseases that cause or aggravate obstructive sleep apnea, such as the use of thyroxine to treat hypothyroidism.

It is understood that about 170 million people in our country suffer from apnea syndrome, of which 60 to 70 million are moderate to severe and need to seek medical help.

Doctors remind you that once you find the typical symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome, you should go to the hospital for treatment in time.