Snoring happens during sleep when breathing through your mouth and nose is difficult or blocked. During sleep, the walls in a person’s throat vibrate and cause the snoring sounds. There are a number of factors that may lead to the blockage of your breathing, including:
Blocked nasal passages.
- People with allergies or sinus infections from colds may have stuffy noses that prevent them from breathing easily at night. Other people may have been born with slight variations or deformities, such as a deviated nasal septum or nasal polyps, in their nose structures that may cause them to have difficulty breathing at night.
Relaxed throat and tongue muscles.
- Deep sleep, alcohol, and certain sleeping pills can cause the muscles to be too relaxed. As a person gets older, their muscles will be relaxed even more, increasing the likelihood of snoring.
Having bulky throat tissue.
- Being overweight might be the cause.
- Children with large tonsils and adenoids often snore as well.
Having a long soft palate and/or uvula.
- This is one of the most common causes for snoring.
- Soft palate is the softer part of the roof of your mouth, and uvula is the soft, dangling tissue in the back of the mouth. These structures vibrate and bump into each other during sleep, causing snoring.
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