Snoring, or snoring, is caused by the vibration of the soft palate as air passes through the oropharynx. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, including physiological reasons and pathological reasons.
1. physiological reasons: some people’s oral musculature, soft palate, oropharynx and other muscles are loose, and if they sleep in an improper posture, such as lying on their backs, the root of the tongue or other related tissues will slide to the pharynx and block the airway, resulting in poor breathing and leading to snoring.
2. Pathological causes:
(1) Abnormalities or lesions in the anatomy of the upper airway: these include all factors that cause narrowing or obstruction of the nasal cavity and nasopharynx.
Nasal septum deviation, nasal polyps, chronic rhinosinusitis, turbinate hypertrophy, adenoid hypertrophy, nasopharyngeal stenosis or atresia, etc.; factors leading to narrowing of the oropharyngeal cavity, such as palatine tonsil hypertrophy, soft palate hypertrophy, pharyngeal side wall hypertrophy, uvula overgrowth, tongue root hypertrophy, tongue hypertrophy, and the abnormalities of the maxillofacial bone framework can cause snoring.
(2) Systemic factors: such as obesity, pregnancy, menopause and perimenopause, hypothyroidism, diabetes mellitus and other systemic diseases can also induce or aggravate snoring.
(3) Other factors: central nervous system diseases, neuromuscular diseases and so on. Tobacco and alcohol addicts can induce or aggravate snoring by causing relaxation of the throat muscles after the patient falls asleep. Senior people, especially elderly men, due to their own muscle relaxation, sleeping pharyngeal muscles even more relaxed, thus causing or aggravating snoring.
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