Snoring Problem
Fri, May 29, 2009
According to the Guinness Book of Records, snores can reach 120 decibels, which is about the volume of an airplane engine. It is not amusing if you frequently lose night sleep because of your spouse’s snoring. Snoring can devastate personal relationship and health problems for the partner as well as the snorer itself. Studies conducted on women whose partners regularly snore demonstrate they experience more problems with their health than those whose partners do not snore. Some of those women have even developed hearing loss.
Snoring facts:
Impacts
Snoring is also responsible to cause sleep deprivation to those who snores and those who next to them. Snoring also causes daytime irritability, drowsiness, lack of focus, and reduced libido. Clinical studies reveal a specific correlation between loud snoring and a risk of a heart attack (over 30%) and stroke (over 60%).
Even snoring is considered to be a minor sleep disorder, some of snorers can suffer rigorous destruction of lifestyle. Statistically speaking, there has been important improvement in personal, mostly marital, relations after snoring had been surgically corrected. Recent studies connect loud “snoring” with an expansion of carotid artery atherosclerosis and a risk of stroke. Many snoring researchers assume that loud snoring creates turbulence in carotid artery blood flow, which is closest to the airway. Generally speaking, increased turbulence within airways irritates blood cells, as it has previously been original identified as a source that causes an atherosclerosis.
While sleeping, snoring creates vibration of respiratory tissues with the resulting sound, which can be explained by the obstruction of air movement during breathing. Occasionally, the snoring sound may be soft, but in most of the cases, it is rather loud and somewhat unpleasant. Those tissues are called uvula and soft palate.
Diagnostics of snoring
Diagnosis of snoring is a simple task. It should be noted however, that people generally underestimate their snoring. For example, a person can snore 10 times a night for 10 to 20 minutes at the time. However, if it makes your partner awaken 10 times a night you might think that the whole night is blemished by the loud snoring. Accurate diagnosis of snoring must be performed in sleep labs and only by qualified physicians.