Causes And Cures For Snoring

by Lisa Monroe

When you think about snoring, what do you think of first? Which aspects of snoring are important, which are essential, and which ones can you take or leave? You be the judge.

Snoring can lead to tiredness and loss of productivity, for both the person who is snoring and the person who is sleeping with or near the snorer.

There are several reasons for snoring. When someone has a cold or an infection that makes breathing difficult, this leads to the snoring noise. Other medical conditions can cause snoring, swollen tonsils and adenoids (lymphoid tissues located at the back of the throat). If the septum is deviated or their is a growth in the nasal cavity, this also causes snoring. Flabby throat muscles are drawn into the airways causing the snoring noise to occur. Alcohol will cause the muscles to be more relaxed and will increase the snoring. There are exercises to help the throat muscles at http://tinyurl.com/nfouk9

Excess fleshy structure in the throat- With more tissues that collide, it is more likely that snoring can occur. This explains why people snore when they have abnormal tonsils or adenoids. Overweight individuals, on the other hand, have larger necks that narrow the air passage while adding more obstructions due to the presence of excess tissues. Although rare, cysts and tumors can also directly cause snoring.

Some people have extra long uvula and soft palate. These muscles can dangle as a person breathes. These act as flutter valves that impede the normal air passage through the throat.

Obstruction in the nasal passage can also inhibit the movement of air from nose to lungs- If the person has stuffy nose, he is encouraged to breathe extra hard which then creates the vacuum in the throat. The parts that dangle loosely in this section of the respiratory tract are then subject to excessive movements. While a person doesn't normally snore, the possibility that he would during hay fever season is high. Thus, many reports of snoring only when they have colds.

Problems with the nose construction- The nasal septum, the underlying bone of the nasal bridge that separates one nostril from the other, can also have deformities that may cause obstruction in the air flow.

So far, we've uncovered some interesting facts about snoring. You may decide that the following information is even more interesting.

Mouth breathing can also directly result to snores- Once the jaws drop during our sleep, a space will be created that would allow the tongue to fall back towards the throat. Again, this would create the obstruction that will encourage vibration, thus creating snores.

Having said all this, we suggest these techniques used by others that have helped and sometimes cured their snoring:

Say for the excess tissues in the throat, the best possible cure is to remove the tissues that cause the blockage. This can be done through surgeries or through loosing weight.

There are many techniques used to surgically eliminate unwanted tissues. Some actually scrape these tissues while other allow electrically-induced disintegration of such muscles which will then be reabsorbed by the body. As for weight loss, there are also various methods of loosing pounds. Only, the person has to follow a comprehensive exercise or diet plan that will best fit his condition. Surgery is also used when the main cause of snoring is deviated nasal septum. This choice of cure will of course require careful examination and determined decision.

Mouth breathing, on the other hand, is best cured by shifting to nasal breathing. Many exercises had been devised to actualize this as much as there are a number of stop snoring devices that encourage the shift of breathing.

Problems on nasal passage are a bit less complicated to resolve. There are various stop snoring aids that aim to maximize the size of the nostrils through the use of clips and straps to facilitate better breathing.

For exercises to help alleviate snoring visit http://tinyurl.com/nfouk9

Of course, it's impossible to put everything about snoring into just one article. But you can't deny that you've just added to your understanding about snoring, and that's time well spent.


“Lisa Monroe is a Prolific Writer, Forensic Editor & respected Instructor in Social Sciences & Humanities. She enthusiastically studies past and current behavior & interaction, is a dedicated teacher & married mother of three children living in Sugar Land, Texas.” More of Lisa’s articles can be found here http://www.txrus.com © Lisa Monroe – TXRUS 2009.