Chronic Pharyngitis May Cause Snoring
April23rd,2010Many patients with chronic pharyngitis, many have different levels of snoring, here we provide how chronic pharyngitis cause snoring ?
Snoring causes can be divided into two different categories as physiological and pathological reasons.
1. Physiological snoring is caused by people sleep with inappropriate position, pillows too high or too low, or because of physical fatigue, alcohol consumption, the pharynx muscle relaxation increased, tongue fall back and so on. Elderly pharyngeal muscle relaxation, obese fat accumulation, the soft palate vibration increased, air breathing resistance, nasal cavity, pharynx stenosis caused by cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, metabolic disorders, systemic disease, abnormal soft palate forms and activities, all these may cause snoring.
2. Chronic pharyngitis, rhinitis, tonsil, pharyngeal wall thickening, follicular hyperplasia, swelling of the nasopharynx. As a long-term inflammatory stimulation, soft palate redness, swelling, thickening, uvula thicker longer all make the throat becomes narrow, increasing the resistance of the respiratory airflow leading snoring, even severe apnea or asphyxia occurs.
Many patients with chronic pharyngitis, many different levels of snoring, cure of chronic pharyngitis, snoring also disappear. The children snoring is due to tonsil or adenoid hypertrophy.
Therefore, people who snore frequently should be carefully examined to ENT, if it is due to chronic pharyngitis or tonsil and adenoid hypertrophy, should be actively treated; if conservative treatment ineffective, surgery can be implemented to shorten the uvula, soft palatenervous patients, the proliferation of extraction technique, to reduce pharyngeal resistance and improve symptoms.
