RU2235562C2 - Device for normalizing nasal breathing - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medical engineering.

SUBSTANCE: device has flat tube, restrictor having holes, and parallel plates arranged above and under the tube. The lower plates are movable along the tube.

EFFECT: improving breathing through nose; enhanced effectiveness in treating snore.

2 cl, 5 dwg

Description

Nasal breathing normalizer - a device designed to normalize nasal breathing with nasal congestion of various etiologies, leading to a variety of diseases.

The following is meant. During sleep, a person with a stuffy nose (not necessarily with acute forms of rhinitis) breathes through his mouth. However, this is difficult because often tight compression of the jaws, lips, less oxygen enters the body through the stuffy nose.

A low blood oxygen level (hypoxemia) leads to oxygen starvation of the body and its individual organs, such as the brain, to a violation of biochemical processes (hypoxia), which can lead, for example, to migraines, headaches, vestibular disorders, pulmonary heart failure, strokes , respiratory arrest, etc., up to death.

A normalizer of nasal breathing, which will allow you to breathe freely with your mouth and is designed to prevent and relieve various diseases, including snoring, will help to avoid the incomplete intake of oxygen during sleep.

With the help of this device, the normalization of nasal breathing occurs automatically. Experience has shown that for this, with mild nasal congestion, a few (5-10) minutes of using the device before bedtime is enough.

With nasal congestion of higher degrees, the device can be used for a longer time — until this nasal congestion is relieved, and when nasal congestion is too strong, you can use the nasal breathing normalizer throughout your sleep.

In addition, the normalization of nasal breathing with the help of this device can make it possible to get rid of snoring, because snoring can occur, including due to nasal congestion.

Normalizer of nasal breathing consists of a flat hollow plastic tube 20-50 mm long, 5-20 mm wide or more, 5-20 mm or more high (Fig. 1, 1). The air inhaled by the mouth passes through the cavity — a slit hole in this tube with a height of 3-10 mm or more (FIGS. 1, 2). The tube is fixed in the mouth with the front teeth of the upper and lower jaws, the teeth are inserted into parallel plates 5-15 mm or more long, 5-15 mm or more high (Fig. 2, 1 side view), (Fig. 3, 1 front view or back).

These teeth-fixing plates can be made stationary or the lower retainer (Fig. 2, 1) can be moved along the tube to find a comfortable position of the teeth of the lower jaw, and when this position is found, this fixator can be fixed motionless.

In order for the tube not to be swallowed during sleep, it can have a stopper, like a stopper for a baby's nipple (Fig. 4, 1 front view). The slotted hole of the tube (Fig. 4, 2), two additional openings on the sides (Fig. 4, 3). For additional fixation, belts can be used, for example, with Velcro straps (4,5).

Another variant. The rod clamped in the mouth also prevents the jaws from closing tightly, allows the mouth to breathe, is made in the form of a parallelepiped, not hollow (5.1). Otherwise, this device does not differ from the device in the first embodiment, i.e. it has similar teeth-fixing plates, where the lower plate can be moved along the shaft and fixed motionless, has the same stopper with breathing holes that protects against arbitrary swallowing of the shaft, and may also have mounts for additional fixation of the device.

Claims (2)

1. A breathing normalizer comprising a tube and a stopper with holes, characterized in that the normalizer further comprises parallel plates mounted on top and bottom of the tube, while the lower parallel plates are movable along the tube and fixed in place, and the tube is flat . 2. The normalizer according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises Velcro straps for fixing the tube in the mouth.

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