What should I do if I snore and grind my teeth while sleeping?

Snoring and grinding teeth while sleeping can be said to be the most common sleeping condition. If you want to effectively alleviate it, you should pay attention to strengthening physical exercise, developing good living habits, avoiding smoking and drinking, and also pay attention to emotional adjustment.

1. Strengthen physical exercise and maintain good living habits.

2. Avoid smoking and drinking, because smoking can aggravate respiratory symptoms, and drinking can aggravate snoring, nocturnal breathing disorders and hypoxemia. Especially drinking before going to bed.

3. For obese people, they should actively reduce their body weight and strengthen the collection and compilation of sports medicine education network. Our experience is to reduce more than 5%-10% of body weight.

4. Snoring patients often have decreased blood oxygen content, which is often accompanied by high blood pressure, heart rhythm disorder, increased blood viscosity, increased heart burden, and easy to cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to blood pressure monitoring and take antihypertensive drugs on time.

5. Do not take sedatives or sleeping pills before going to bed to avoid further suppressing the respiratory center.

6. Sleep in a side-lying position, especially on the right side, to avoid the tongue, soft palate, and uvula from relaxing and falling back during sleep, which will aggravate the obstruction of the upper airway. You can put a small ball on your back during sleep to help you stay in a side-lying position.

7. Patients after surgery should eat soft food and avoid hot food. Avoid strenuous activities.