Surgical treatment to eliminate nasal hindrances can make quality of life better among people with obstructive sleep apnea (brief pause in breathing) (OSA) and decreases indications of nasal obstruction, these are the findings of  a study by the researchers in Taiwan. People with OSA experience occurrences of incomplete or complete obstruction of the airway during sleep that causes snoring and daytime drowsiness.

51 patients (50 men and one woman, average age 39) with OSA and symptoms of nasal blockage were included in the study and they were examined earlier and three months after they had nasal surgical treatment.

After surgical treatment, there was a considerable decrease in symptoms of nasal hindrance and in snoring and daytime drowsiness. There was also a minor progress in the patients’ general health, the study concluded.

“The levels of quality of life improvement, compared with before surgery generic health status, were 30.4 percent for role-emotional (problems with work or daily activities caused by emotional difficulties), 20.7 percent for role-physical, 18.9 percent for vitality, 14.8 percent for mental health, 11.4 percent for generic health, 7.4 percent for social functioning, 1.6 percent for physical functioning, and 1 percent for bodily pain,” stated Dr. Hsueh-Yu Li, of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taipei.
“These results suggest that, when nasal obstruction in OSA patients was relieved, their generic health improved, and that the effects were especially remarkable in reducing role limitations caused by physical or emotional problems,” they further added.

The results “substantiate the role of nasal surgery in treating nasal obstruction among OSA patients,” the researchers suggested. The study has been published in the journal Archives of Otolaryngology in its April issue.
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