Snoring during pregnancy is a very common problem that many women may encounter during pregnancy, learn more in snoring causes, dangers and remedies.

1. Causes of Snoring During Pregnancy

The narrower airways is the mainly cause of snoring during pregnancy, because of narrowing of the upper airway passages which directly results in inner throat tissue vibration leading to creation of airway obstruction. As you may know that the hormone estrogen secretion will increase during pregnancy, which will lead to more relaxed neck muscles and exacerbate fat accumulation around the neck area, ultimately increase neck size and narrow the airways.

2. The Dangers of Snoring During Pregnancy

• Gestational Diabetes
  Frequent snoring during pregnancy increases the likelihood of developing gestational diabetes , according to a recent study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine . The study also found pregnancy raises the chances that a woman will snore. This is the first study to report a link between snoring and gestational diabetes, which is a condition that may cause health problems for both mother and baby.

• Preeclampsia
  Untreated snoring during pregnancy can lead to preeclampsia, a condition characterized by high blood pressure, protein in the urine and swelling, that can be dangerous to both mother and baby if left to progress.  Mild preeclampsia are about the same as those in a normal pregnancy, while severe preeclampsia may associated with maternal liver problems, maternal kidney problems, need for cesarean delivery, preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, respiratory problems in the baby

• Growth Retardation of the fetus
  Snoring during pregnancy could result in the growth retardation of the fetus, or worse, maternal death. Snoring is a real danger to both mother and child during pregnancy.  Infants born to mothers who were snoring during pregnancy frequently had lower birth weight and Apgar scores (a test taken immediately after a baby is born regarding heart rate, breathing, reflex, muscle tone, and skin color).

Other impacts  of snoring during pregnancy including lack of sleep and daytime sleepiness ,  irritability ,  memory problems ,  low levels of concentration,  bad showing signs of awakening and so on.

3. Snoring During Pregnancy Remedies

There are many items on the market these days that are advertised as solutions to snoring, when pregnant you of course want to be careful about anything that you ingest or even inhale, to be sure that you don’t injure your unborn child.

• Progesterone
  Progesterone protects a woman from experiencing sleep apnea and relaxes your airways rather than constrict it which  is also considered as a breathing stimulant. Progesterone makes you take in more air even if you have a stuffy nose. At one point or another, it helps a woman prevent the occurrence of problems such as snoring during pregnancy.

• Humidified air
  You can try a humidifier or vaporizer in your room. This extra moisture in the air can help to moisten the throat and mouth and cut down on cases of snoring.

• Nasal Strips
  You can have a try with nasal strips, just put one on right before you go to sleep, which will keep the airways open and prevent snoring. As the strips are completely drug free, you do not need to have any concerns.

• Habits and customs
  Also, you can have certain lifestyle and customs changes such as weight reduction, elimination of alcohol in the diet and maintaining proper rest and sleep cycle. If you try making these changes, it might be possible to lessen your problems.

For baby snoring while sleeping, parents need to carefully identify the underlying causes of snoring. Here listed the most common baby snoring causes, read more to get the real reason for your infant snoring.

1.  Immature tissues and organs

The vast majority of baby snoring is caused by immature tissues and organs of infants, which will disappear as the children grow up. As the nasal passages of infants  are still narrow and usual are filled with bubbly secretions, when air passes through these puddles of secretions, a vibratory sound is produced causing baby snoring.  Baby snoring is basically just a sound produced by the soft tissues as air passes in. As the baby grows older, as well as his nasal passages and as he learns to swallow excess saliva these vibratory sounds or baby snoring should subside.

2. Laryngomalacia

One more cause for baby snoring is laryngomalacia. Laryngomalacia is a very common condition of infancy, in which the soft, immature cartilage of the upper larynx collapses inward during inhalation, causing airway obstruction. In time, the cartilage that supports tissues around the throat and airway become stronger which helps resolve the problem. Most children grow out of laryngomalacia by one year of age and nearly all children eventually outgrow the condition.

3. Diet

Some of the daily diet may also lead to snoring, which may not only for babies,  it would also be applied in adults as well. To prevent your baby snoring, you must pay attention to infants’ diet.

• Dairy products like milk will increases the production of mucus that causes narrowing of the airway.
• Eating high caloric foods also contributes to snoring during sleep. High caloric foods are not easy to digest and it stays longer in the stomach especially when eaten late at nights this leads to increase pressure in the diaphragm especially while lying down. This pressure in turn causes the snoring.

In addition to the above  common baby snoring causes which will disappear as the children grow up or easy avoid, there are also some other reasons for snoring is more difficult to solve.

4. Abnormal structure

An abnormal structure in his nasal passages like enlarged tonsils are also cause of snoring in older children but rarely does this happen to infants.  Enlarged tonsils may be corrected by a simple outpatient operation.  The generally accepted procedure for enlarged tonsils called tonsillectomy, in which the tonsils are removed from either side of the throat.

5. Adenoid hypertrophy

Adenoid hypertrophy causes a variety of symptoms of nasal obstruction and chronic mouth breathing and contributes to snoring. Adenoid hypertrophy is a specific disease to early childhood. For adenoid hypertrophy, the nose will be blocked, not only the drainage of nasal secretions will blocked, and the inbound and outbound air will also be blocked, eventually lead to mouth breathing.  Surgical removal of the adenoids is a procedure called adenoidectomy, practice shows that homeopathic treatment also is effective for adenoid hypertrophy.