Does Drinking Alcohol Cause Snoring?

February18th,2010

Many people have the habit of drinking, many people also have the habit of snoring, but when snoring and drinking improvise together, what would happen then, Analogy it, there is a saying called the wind to help the fire, the same as the relationship of drinking and snoring,  alcohol consumption will increase health hazards for snoring,  so the snoring people should drink less, it is best do not drink.

Drinking alcohol also has a close relationship with sleep apnea, after excessive drinking, sleep snoring and apnea are often significantly worse.

The occurrence of sleep apnea, primarily because of expansion of the upper airway during sleep, muscle activity decreased, can not guarantee that the upper airway patency, resulting in upper airway obstruction, and thus can not be normal breathing. Alcohol can choose from several links to promote the occurrence of apnea, such as the inhibitory effect of alcohol on the nerve can reduce the upper airway dilator activity. Apnea patients, the blood oxygen content decreased, carbon dioxide levels rise, this change can improve the upper airway dilator activity. The alcohol and a decrease of the upper airway dilator response to low oxygen and high carbon dioxide, thereby promote the occurrence of upper airway obstruction. Sleep apnea patients often hold back awake, this is actually a protective effect for patients, since choke after waking may terminate apnea and resume normal breathing. Alcohol can increase awareness of response thresholds, suppression choke awake situation, to extend the apnea time. Clinical observations also indicate that alcohol makes a simple snorers apnea occurs, so that apnea patients sicker.

So for all the phenomenon of snoring patients, both men and women, we must do to drink less, or even no drinking, If you feel that they can not do, at least to limit alcohol consumption, or only drink a small amount of beer, at the same time, ensure that 4 to 6 hours before going to bed without drinking.

Snoring and Alcohol

February3rd,2010

Cold winter, many men like to drink wine, after drink a few glasses of wine, warmth will be slowly boiled to. Doctors warned that some diseases less alcohol consumption, especially for those who do not sleep, snoring.

Sleep snoring’s upper airway was relatively narrow, falling asleep after drinking alcohol on the upper airway when the muscles have a direct role in paralysis and relaxation, when the already narrow upper airway collapse will occur repeatedly, blocking, and thus give rise Sleep choking phenomenon.

Sleep snoring woke up after people who drink a result of deficiency of oxygen occurs during sleep, after waking dry mouth, daytime sleepiness, attention is not easy to decreased concentration or memory; will appear early morning blood pressure, increased nocturia and other symptoms, while the high blood pressure, angina, cardiac arrhythmia, stroke and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events also greatly increase the probability that this drink is called “sleep apnea syndrome.”

In addition, a large number of brain asphyxia after drinking a wake-up reactions become slow, choking extended, especially in late at night the situation will increase, sleep, sudden death may occur.

Leading to snoring,  sleep apnea is the root cause of throat drugs, snoring long treatment is the bane of recurrent laryngeal toxicity has not been effectively removed. Direct erosion of nasopharyngeal throat muscle toxicity, leading to the nasopharynx, throat muscle relaxation hypertrophy, nasopharyngeal respiratory airflow has been blocked, when the air flow through the narrow part of the nasopharynx, the resulting eddy current and cause vibration, and thus there snoring, and in severe inspiratory Breath was completely blocked, leading to sudden death!

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