What Causes Snoring, and How is it Usually Treated?
Snoring is caused by reduced airways, stemming from either your throat or nasal passageway, and it’s the vibrations as the air struggles to get through your soft palate, uvula, tongue, tonsils and/or muscles in the back of your throat that causes the snore. There are several conventional treatments for snoring and sleep apnea (where you temporarily stop breathing while sleeping), including antidepressant drugs and surgery. None of them come without potentially serious risks to your health. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the most common treatment for sleep apnea. You wear a mask over your nose during sleep and pressure from an air blower forces air through your nasal passages. The air pressure is constant and continuous, and adjusted so that it is just enough to prevent your throat from collapsing during sleep. Nasal CPAP prevents airway closure while in use, however, apnea episodes return when CPAP is stopped or if used improperly, so it’s not a permanent fix. Foll
