Snoring has been associated with sleep with apnea. a breathing disorder linked to elevated blood pressure, cardiovascular stress, headaches, depression, and fatigue.
Snoring, very simply, is caused by the vibration of the soft tissues at the back of the throat. In general, three factorss contribute the these vibrations. They are weak muscles, masses encroaching on the airway (in children, for instance, snoring an almost always be traced to enlarge tonsils an adenoids), and obstructed nasal breathing.
The first factor weak musclu, exlains why most snoring takes place during deep stages of sleep, when throat muscle relax an the tongue falls back, cause vibration. Understanding gravity, you can easily see why snoring often accurs when people sleep on their backs.
The second factor thing that crowd the airway, can something be blamed on heredity. While the avarege size uvula (the flashly lobe shape structure that hangs in the back of your throat) measure a qurter inch, some poor soul have one thats four times as long. Other traits can exacerbate snoring too. Obese people are three times more likely to snore than thin ones (their bulkiness extends throughout their body). And smokers' throats are irritated daily, causing mocous membranes to swell, norrowing the airway.
The third factor-obstructed nasal breathing, can have many cause. Congestion, allergies, polyps, even a deviated septum are just a few.
In some cases, a sleeper's airway may be completely blacked, causing breathing to stop for a period before the sleeper is jolted patially awake, gasps for air and falls back to sleep. Then the process is rapeated. Know as obstructive sleep apnea, this condition can lead to severe cardiac and pulmonary problems, even to death.
