What causes snoring

Airways are often narrow in some places and the team, narrower areas created air turbulence, which is manifested as snoring. During sleep, the muscles are relaxed soft palate and fall along with the villus to the rear wall of the pharynx, and even greater constriction occurs in the form of cracks through which air passes.

When the air starts to flow, there is a vibration of the soft palate uvula, which is manifested as snoring.

Being overweight, alcohol consumption and the use of some medications can aggravate snoring.

Statistics show that at the age of 30 years, 5% of women and 20% of men snore. At older ages, the percentage increases.


Snoring is not only a medical problem, but also a social one. Those who snore in their sleep, interfere with people who are in the same room. Some produce noise of 85 decibels, equivalent to the noise of traffic.

If snoring occurs during the complete closure of the airway can lead to dangerous interruption of breathing that lasts for a few seconds. The body then reflexively raises blood pressure and can cause a heart attack or stroke. If this situation persists, and leads to fatigue and sleepiness during waking, because the cells lack oxygen.

When overweight, there is a buildup of fat in the soft palate, and the emergence of airway closure easier. Alcohol relaxes the muscles and contribute to this phenomenon. In old age, snoring is common, because there is a weakening of the muscles.

Snoring is more common in people who breathe through their mouths because of the inability of the passage of air through the nose, for example. due to inflammation of the nasal mucosa and sinuses, nasal polyps, tonsils etc. magnification.

Using medicines for sleep stress the development of snoring, as it comes to relaxing muscles and disanih closing roads.