Why do you sleep sideways and often snore through your nose? How to treat sideways snoring

Snoring, also known as snoring, gives people the impression that the snoring person snores as soon as he puts his head on the pillow, and sleeps quickly and sweetly, so snoring is often synonymous with good sleep, and many people are very envious of snoring people, because they rarely snore and think that their sleep is not deep enough. That's the case in our family, my parents are heavyweights, and when I was a kid, I always went to their room to watch TV. Before an episode of the TV series ended, I heard their rhythmic snoring, one after another.

Seeing that they slept so soundly, they could only obediently turn off the lights and go to sleep.

In general, snoring is caused by the collapse and blockage of the airway due to the relaxation of the muscles that keep the upper airway open during sleep. Because a snorer's airway is usually narrower than normal, compensatory contractions of the throat muscles during waking during the day keep the airway open and not blocked. However, during night sleep, nerve excitability decreases, muscles relax, pharyngeal tissues are blocked, and the upper airway collapses, and when the airflow passes through the narrow part, vortex currents are generated and vibrations are caused, resulting in snoring, and in severe cases, breathing can be temporarily stopped, thus affecting people's physical health.

Does simple snoring need to be special**?

Snoring is severe, simple snoring does not have much impact on physical health, no special **, usually a little attention to sleep behavior (such as the side decubitus position) will be improved. However, if the snoring reaches a certain level, becomes severe, or the diagnosis of OSAHS (obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome) is confirmed, it must be **. It is recommended that simple snoring should also pay attention to lifestyle improvements, such as obese people to **, patients with nasal inflammation to **related diseases.

Many people think that snoring in sleep is very common and not a big deal, but in fact, sometimes this is also a pathology. The harm of snoring is not only to make you feel tired for a long time and disturb the sleep of the people around you, but more importantly, long-term lack of oxygen leads to serious damage to various organs of the body, which can lead to arrhythmia, high blood pressure, myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, endocrine disorders and mental and neurological diseases.

Therefore, people with snoring also need to pay attention to whether there are cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases to see if there is adenoid hypertrophy. You should go to the internal medicine and ENT department of the hospital for specific examinations, and according to the specific examination results, you should actively look at solving the problem of sleeping and snoring.

Fat people are prone to snoring, and the stress can be seen in the hospital.

Sleeping on your side can also cause snoring due to:

1.The tongue, throat, and upper airway are lax, blocking air circulation, causing difficulty breathing and snoring.

2.Incorrect body posture can cause compression of the airway, making breathing more difficult.

3.Bad lifestyle habits, such as drinking alcohol or smoking, can also worsen snoring.

4.It may be caused by various snoring syndromes, such as chronic sinusitis, deviated nasal septum, or palate lobe.

If the snoring is severe, it is recommended to go to the hospital for a check-up, look for a good bag**, and make a corresponding ** according to the situation**.

First, nasal causes: nasal septum deviation, nasal polyps, turbinate hypertrophy, nasal mucosal hyperemia, chronic rhinitis, etc., this is one of the main causes of snoring.

Second, pharyngeal causes: enlarged and hypertrophied tonsils and adenoids, hypertrophy of the uvula, hypertrophy of the soft palate, and hypertrophy of the tongue. This is a little worse than the nasal cause, and snoring is urgent.

Sleeping on your side will only have a relieving effect for some people. People who snore generally do not snore during the day because the pharyngeal muscles are tense when they are awake, so the upper respiratory tract is relatively smooth.

However, when you sleep at night, the muscles are relaxed, and the soft tissues of the upper respiratory tract will relax and collapse, blocking the pharynx, and vibrations will occur when you breathe, resulting in snoring. Some people who didn't snore before suddenly become snoring due to changes in lifestyle habits, such as excessive fatigue, drinking and socializing, and their cavity muscles are looser than before.

Also, as a person ages, their muscles slowly become relaxed. People who travel a lot have this experience, colleagues who travel together, don't snore at first, but after a few days of busy work, they become snoring. Most of the passengers who often take the sleeper car of the train also have personal experience, and the passengers in the berth next to them often snore when they sleep, which is due to the fatigue of the journey.

Because when lying on your side, the loose soft palate and the base of your tongue do not reach the respiratory tract, so the chance of snoring while sleeping on your side is smaller, but not impossible, and the snoring is softer. So now there is a side sleep aid on the market, which claims to solve snoring. However, it is simply impossible for anyone to maintain a sleeping position until dawn and always turn over, so this instrument still does not cure the root cause.

But this state is difficult to control and maintain, the angle changes slightly, the snoring will appear again, and the sleeping posture of the person cannot reach such a precise degree, so it is not a universal law.

The soft tissues of the upper respiratory tract will relax and collapse, blocking the pharynx, and snoring will occur when breathing.

The pharyngeal muscles are tense, so the upper airway is more open, and there will be no snoring to change the traditional methods of preserving food such as salting or smoking

Change the traditional methods of preserving food such as salting or smoking, and widely use the freezing and preservation storage method. Reduce salt intake in your diet.

It may be related to menstrual overwork, nervousness, coldness, and allergies.

When you vibrate when you breathe, you snore. People who snore generally have tense pharyngeal muscles during the day due to the waking state, so the upper respiratory tract is relatively smooth, so they will not snor, change the traditional salting or smoking and other methods of preserving food, and widely use the freezing and preservation storage method.

Sleeping on your side can relieve snoring. There are several other ways. 1. Enhance physical exercise and maintain good living habits.

2. Avoid smoking and alcohol addiction, because smoking can cause aggravation of respiratory symptoms, drinking alcohol aggravates snoring, nocturnal breathing disorders and hypoxemia. Especially drinking alcohol before bedtime. 3. For obese people, they should actively lose weight and strengthen exercise.

Our experience is to lose 5%-10% of body weight. 4. Snoring patients often have decreased blood oxygen content, so they are often accompanied by hypertension, heart rhythm disorders, increased blood viscosity, and increased heart burden, which can easily lead to the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, so it is necessary to pay attention to blood pressure monitoring and take antihypertensive drugs on time. 5. It is forbidden to take sedative and sleeping drugs before going to bed, so as not to aggravate the inhibition of respiratory center regulation.

6. Adopt a lateral decubitus sleeping position, especially the right decubitus position, to avoid the tongue, soft palate and uvula from falling back when sleeping, which will aggravate the upper airway obstruction. A small leather ball can be placed on the back while sleeping to help enforce sleep in the lateral decubitus position. 7. After the operation, patients should mainly eat soft food, and do not eat hot food.

Avoid strenuous activities.

Sleeping on your back or stomach is more likely to make your airway unsmooth, and when you sleep on your side, your loose muscles will tilt to one side and won't block your airway, which can relieve snoring.