If a person’s snore, is a soft sound at the beginning, but little by little as the years pass, it changes and becomes  a nightmare for the spouse and family; is considered, now a days, to be a disease  and of dangerous consequences.

 

Did you know that during the night a people who snore, suffer of a bad oxygenation, don’t sleep right, in moments they  suffocate with out realizing it, because of lack of air; when they wake up in the morning they are in a bad mood, with a sore throat, they are sleepy, and they can’t work properly.

 

The fundamental problem for all people who snore happens when the free flow of air finds an obstruction as it passes by the back part of the nose and the mouth, because the space between the palate, uvula, tonsils, tongue, has disappeared, so the structures vibrate and hit against each other, reaching 50,000 impacts each night. The edema which results each day grows little by little, causing complications that in some cases if the person is drunk can cause death.

 

 

The main complication is nocturnal apnea which is when the person stops breathing or the breathing is interrupted, because of the obstruction. The episodes can last 10 seconds and happen more than 7 times each hour; these people can experience 30 to 300 episodes during the night.  The concentration of oxygen diminishes and the heart has to pump stronger so the blood can circulate faster, as time passes it causes the increase of arterial pressure and the enlargement of the heart.

 

Snoring is caused because:

·         Weakness of the muscles of the mouth, throat and larynx.

·         Flabbiness of the tissues. (this causes the collapse)

·         Obstruction because the tongue collapses towards the hypopharynx

·         Hipertrophic tonsils

·         Excessive enlargement of the palate, uvula

·         Large tongue