Wikipedia on Snoring
Sometimes I get curious to hear how other people might describe the problem of snoring, so I thought I’d take a peak over at the wikipedia site and see what they were saying about snoring. Maybe they had some interesting facts and/or cures.
Snoring is the vibration of respiratory structures and the resulting sound, due to obstructed air movement during breathing while sleeping.
This is as accurate as you can get. Your air travels through your throat and starts causing loose tissue to vibrate in a violent manner. This vibration, leads to resonation (which is a physics term), and than you eventually break into a sound.
Here are the listed causes:
- Throat weakness, causing the throat to close during sleep
- Mispositioned jaw, often caused by tension in the muscles
- Fat gathering in and around the throat
- Obstruction in the nasal passageway
- Caused by the tissues at the top of airways touching each other causing vibrations.
Yet again they hit all the main points that lead to snoring problems. Obviously if you have the tissue that just breeds the problem than all you can do is go the surgery route. A lot of people that snore are also over weight, which is just a matter of losing weight to solve.
The rest typically fall under the category of jaw positions. That’s why I always suggest to people that they should be using the snoring chin strap because it is the best form of support for the jaw. It will open up the airways and stop you from snoring.