Snoring occurs when air flows through relaxed tissues, such as the tongue, soft palate, and airways, as you breathe. Fallen tissues narrow the airways, causing these tissues to vibrate.
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occurs when air cannot flow freely through the airways when inhaling and exhaling during sleep. When the airways are narrowed or partially blocked, breathing causes the tissues of the upper airways to vibrate, producing the sound you hear when someone snores.There are many possible reasons why a person may have a chronic narrowing or blockage of the airways during sleep that causes snoring. Why do people snore? Snoring is the sound of obstructed breathing, which may be due to some basic factors, such as poor muscle tone, bulky throat tissue, or a long soft palate or uvula. It can also be a warning sign that you have a treatable health condition that interferes with breathing while you sleep, such as nasal congestion caused by a sinus infection or allergy, nasal polyps (non-cancerous growths in the nose), or a deviated septum. Snoring occurs when the uvula partially blocks the airways.
The lungs need to inhale harder to compensate for the reduction in the amount of air that enters the body. Snoring comes from the vibration of the soft palate at the back of the mouth and the uvula, which extends down and covers the airways. When a person who does not snore feels that he has done everything possible to sleep through the night (earplugs, sound machines, etc.) Since people snore for different reasons, it is important to understand the causes of snoring. Researchers conducted sleep studies on twenty patients with hypothyroidism and found that they all snored.
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, about 40% of adult men and 24% of adult women snore regularly. For example, people are more likely to snore if they have a deviated septum, which is when the wall between the nostrils is bent or skewed to one side. It is estimated that 45 percent of adults snore occasionally, while 25 percent snore regularly, often disturbing the sleep of their bed partner and possibly also their own. Snoring often goes unnoticed for snoring; rather, a bedmate or housemate alerts the affected person to their snoring and other symptoms of OSA during the night.
Monitoring your snoring for patterns can often help you identify the reasons why you snore, what makes it worse, and how to stop it. If you regularly snore at night, it can disrupt the quality of your sleep and lead to daytime fatigue, irritability and increased health problems. Your provider will ask you (and perhaps your partner) several questions, including how often you snore, what you sound like, and how your diet and lifestyle affect your sleep. People who snore may spin and around at night, have a dry and sore throat when they wake up, and feel tired during the day.
If you are the one who is awake at night while your partner is snoring, it's easy to start feeling resentful. These approaches have been shown to be effective in some patients with OSA, but more research is needed to show if they are effective in people who snore but do not have OSA. The usual snoring occurs in about 40% of adult women and 57% of adult men, and some people snore regularly without any other sleep-related symptoms. And if you snore, you may feel helpless, guilty, or even irritated with your partner for insisting on something you can't control.
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