Not ALL snoring is harmful.
The reasons for snoring stem from the relaxation of throat muscles when you sleep. Less airway volume can mean that the relaxed throat vibrates when you breathe.
It’s the universal cause of snoring (harmful or normal)
The tongue is one of the main factors in snoring and sleeping with mouth open.
During sleep, the muscles in the back of the mouth, nose, or throat become relaxed and breath flowing through the airway causes them to vibrate or flap.
When you go to sleep, the primary muscles of your tongue and your throat relax.
For you to keep your airway open, support muscles for the throat must hold firm.
Not all snoring is sleep apnoea. Breathing noise or ‘snoring’ can be normal.
The restricted airflow results in a rumbling, rattling sound that occurs when air flows past the relaxed tissues.
Snoring sounds range from quiet whistling or vibrating to a loud grumbling, snorting, or rumbling.
It results when the upper airway, specifically the throat and the nasal passage, vibrate from turbulent airflow during breathing while asleep.
This commonly affects the soft palate and uvula, the tissue that hangs down at the back of the throat.
Narrowing at the base of the tongue may also play a role.
The root cause of snoring is when the air you’re breathing doesn’t flow smoothly through your nose and/or throat when you’re sleeping.
Instead, it bumps into the surrounding tissues, which causes a vibration. The resulting vibration makes the snoring sound as you breathe.
Your tongue position may also play a part.
Snoring is caused by things such as your tongue, mouth, throat or airways in your nose vibrating as you breathe.
It happens because these parts of your body relax and narrow when you're asleep.
Sometimes it's caused by a condition like sleep apnoea, which is when your airways become temporarily blocked as you sleep.
Snoring is the sound that air makes when it passes across the relaxed or loose tissues of the upper airway.