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Snore occurs when there is some blockage in the air passage when we are asleep. It is the narrowing of our airway from a poor sleep posture or from an abnormality of our throat soft tissues. A narrow airway will hinder our normal smooth breathing and creates the "snore sound”. In most usual case, the “snore sound” was produced when we inhale air during our sleep.

While in some case, “snore sound” can be produced when we are exhaling the air. As a result, there will be a two different frequency of Snore sound we hear, one through inhaling air and the other though exhaling air. The soft tissue in our upper palate or throat starts vibrating during out sleep, these vibrating will happen even if we are breathing through our nose within any blockage.

For instant, when a person sleeps on his back, his tongue will slip back into the throat and cause the blockage of airway. In some case, the blockage can be also due to an allergic reaction or a wrong alignment of the jaws. Snorers often have too much throat and nasal tissue that cause the vibrating. You can find Snoring always happen in grandparents (elderly) as well as in our parents. It is the result from the relaxation of throat muscles during sleep.

When you are younger, you will have a stronger muscle tone to control your throat muscle, but as you grow much older, your throat tissues will get much flabbier and easily have it relax during your sleep. Sometime overweigh do contribute to the “snore sound” with the extra fat tissue build in the neck and throat that obstruct airway. We usually closed our mouth during sleeping where the inhalation and exhalation process takes place through our nasal passage. Snoring can also happen when we sleep with our mouth open. When we open our mouth during sleep, the air we breathe in sometimes causes the soft palate to vibrate and result with the “snore sound”. You can find from your bed partner’s or parents that the “snore sound” produced at a variable level.

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