Causes of snoring, how to get rid of snoring at home

All of us have expe­ri­enced snor­ing at least once in our lives. And how annoy­ing it is. But did you know that this is not good for a snor­er, because snor­ing can often lead to a num­ber of chron­ic dis­eases and ail­ments.

There­fore, in order to avoid such an “inti­mate irri­tant” as snor­ing, it is some­times nec­es­sary to under­stand the caus­es of its occur­rence. Why we snore and how to deal with it today we will share with you in our arti­cle.

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Snoring: causes

Tak­en­suke Ike­mat­su — was one of the first who stud­ied the nature of snor­ing in such detail and for a long time, as a result of which he received the nick­name “father of snor­ing”.

1. In the course of his research, name­ly for forty years, the doc­tor deter­mined what exact­ly nar­row­ing of the upper air­ways leads to snor­ing.

After all, if at least some soft tis­sues in the throat increase, this auto­mat­i­cal­ly leads to snor­ing. How­ev­er, such data is not unam­bigu­ous, because you can often meet peo­ple who do not have any dis­eases, but snor­ing does not cease to excite them.

2. Anoth­er rea­son for snor­ing is con­sid­ered decrease in mus­cle tone in the soft tis­sues of the throat. And this hap­pens dur­ing the REM phase of sleep, when the mus­cles are most relaxed. And if a per­son sleeps on his back, then the tongue falls back, clos­ing the upper res­pi­ra­to­ry tract.

But only over time, the tone of the tis­sues of the phar­ynx becomes less elas­tic, stretch­es and, as a result, leads to snor­ing.

3. Many doc­tors tend to say exact­ly what over­weight is the cause of snor­ing in humans.

It is Paul Sur­ratt who is now active­ly engaged in the study of snor­ing, and the effect of excess weight on human breath­ing. One the­o­ry is that the fat in the abdomen can press on the diaphragm and com­press the tra­chea.

By putting such patients on a diet, he found that snor­ing was great­ly reduced. How­ev­er, for those peo­ple who snored before they gained weight, los­ing weight in this case did not help.

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4. It is said that heavy drink­ing before bed­time, as well as smok­ing, leads to the fact that when falling asleep, the mus­cles of the soft tis­sues of the phar­ynx relax and stretch.

And while smok­ing, the mucous mem­brane of the phar­ynx increas­es, as a sig­nif­i­cant amount of mucus is released. And this, in turn, leads to a decrease in the air pas­sage. Also, the use of antibi­otics and sleep­ing pills are often the cause of snor­ing.

Snoring: prevention and treatment

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The first thing a doc­tor will sug­gest when treat­ing snor­ing is to stop smok­ing, drink­ing alco­hol, and sleep­ing on your back. In short, a healthy lifestyle. After all, snor­ing is a fair­ly seri­ous dis­ease that def­i­nite­ly needs to be dealt with.

Some­times peo­ple agree to surgery. In this case, the doc­tor reduces the soft palate, there­by improv­ing air per­me­abil­i­ty.

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