Archive for the 'Snoring' Category

Quality of both our sleep and our waking lives gets reduced by any factor that disrupts the normal sleep wake cycle.

The more we learn about snoring, the more we realize how disruptive it can be - and not just to the snorer’s bedmate.

Consider that the average sleeper takes a breath every twenty to forty seconds.

We may breathe anywhere from seven hundred to fourteen hundred times each night depending on our breathing patterns and how long we sleep. It’s not surprising that snoring, which interferes with the ability to breathe fully and deeply each time, can affect our health.

Heavy snorers with sleep apnea have measurably less oxygen circulating in their blood at night. A vital role is played by oxygen in transporting nutrients to body cells and removing the waste products of the cell’s biochemical processes.

Reduced oxygen supple means reduced efficient body metabolism, allowing these toxic by-products to build up in body tissues.

Evidence is mounting that over time snoring affects both health and longevity. Actually, it has been reported that heavy snorers have a greater risk of developing heart disease than non-snorers.

Almost every is familiar with snoring.

If you doesn’t have the habit of snoring, then might have shared a room or bed with someone who posses the habit of snoring.

Even though snoring is often the butt of many jokes and used for comedic effect on TV and in movies, snoring can in fact be a serious medical condition.

Snoring can take a toll on the quality of you and your sleeping partner’s sleep, as well as your overall health.

Many people view snoring as a harmless nuisance, but in reality, it can indicate underlying health problems.

Snoring is not only a medical concern but also take quite a social toll. A snorer may keep their sleep partner awake, and cause their quality of sleep to decline. The snorer’s sleep partner may also worry about their partner’s health, particularly if they also suffer from sleep apnea.

Both the snorer and their sleeping partner may experience sleep deprivation and insomnia that in turn leads to irritability, daytime fatigue, restlessness, and overall lack of energy and productivity.

In serious cases, a person’s snoring may even drive their sleeping partner out of the bedroom, and into the respite of a quieter room.

It was earlier believed the cause of bed wetting is a sleep disorder.

This is because in some children snoring appears to accompany bed wetting.

Snoring in children can sometimes be a result of what is known as obstructive sleep apnea.

This breathing problem is much more common in adults, particularly middle aged men, than it is in children but children can still develop it.

Obstructive sleep apnea is a partial obstruction to or intermittent interruption of the flow of air to the lungs, enough to seriously interfere with breathing.

Large Adenoids

The most common cause of OSA to develop is children are due to large adenoids. The adenoids are to be found located behind the nasal passages and are similar in their function to tonsils as they are collections of lymph glands that serve to fight infection.

Plenty of children who have large adenoids do snore but don’t essentially suffer from obstructive sleep apnea. Nor are they any more likely to suffer with bed wetting on a regular basis.

Those children who do develop obstructive sleep apnea suffer short periods of time throughout the night when they in fact stop breathing all together.