Feb
10

Snore? – Causes and Effects

Why Do People Snore?

If you sleep normally, air passes from your nose and throat to your lungs so silently and unobstructed. For hundreds of thousand or even millions of us, however, something disrupts the flow of air.  Perhaps it’s a blocked or congested nose or nasal septums are off-center (deviated septum); May be the base of your tongue or enlarged tonsils is restricting your breathing.  Or your uvula (flap at the back of your throat) is swollen. Your snoring is the sound of air being forced through your nose or throat.

However, generally the soft tissue in your upper palate or throat starts to vibrate as you sleep even if you breathe easily through your nose, even if your uvula and tonsils are in normal size. Snoring is the vibration of respiratory structures and the resulting sound, due to obstructed air movement during breathing while sleeping. In some cases the sound may be soft, but in other cases, it can be rather loud and quite unpleasant. Generally speaking, the structures involved are the uvula and soft palate. These noisy vibrations may occur for several reasons, the most simple being that your throat muscles relax during sleep. When you are a child, you typically have good muscle tone and do not snore, but as you get older, you put on weight and your throat tissues get loose.  Alcohol or drugs relaxing throat muscles and overeating before bedtime make snoring worse.

Conditions That Cause Anyone to Snore

  • Heredity – A narrow throat, a cleft palate, enlarged adenoids and other physical attributes which contribute to snoring can be hereditary.
  • Middle-aged or beyond – As you age, your throat becomes narrower, and the muscle tone in your throat decreases.
  • Male - Men have narrower air passages than women and are more likely to snore.
  • Allergies, asthma, a cold, or sinus infections – Blocked airways make inhalation difficult and create a vacuum in the throat, leading to
  • Overweight or out of shape – Fatty tissue and poor muscle tone contribute to snoring
  • Smoking – Smoking (or exposure to second-hand smoke) relaxes muscles and creates nasal congestion.
  • Alcohol or medications - Alcohol and  medications increase muscle relaxation leading to more snoring.
  • Sleeping posture – Sleeping flat on your back allows the flesh of your throat to relax and block the airway.

Snoring Affects Your Health

If you snore, the most common health problem it causes is loss of sleep for both, you and your sleep partner or spouse. The snoring unpleasant sound combined with kicking, tossing and turning often keep both people from a good deep sleep. Sleep deprivation has significant consequences: excessive sleepiness, become more irritable, and unproductive during the day, as well as negative health repercussions.

People who snore chronically are often middle-aged and overweight, and snoring may indicate a more serious underlying medical problem. Help from health care professional is needed to provide Snore Cure guidance to such people.


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