It is not uncommon for people to experience annoying snoring in their other half. About what diseases snoring warns and what is the difference between men and women snoring, the doctor-somnologist, the head of the sleep service "Unison" Elena Tsareva told on the air of the network broadcasting "Vechernyaya Moskvy".
- Snoring can be hazardous to health. In 96 percent of cases, snoring is combined with respiratory arrest, and this is already serious. You exhale and are without oxygen reserve for 30 seconds. In a dream, a drop in oxygen in the blood is recorded and this can happen every 2-3 minutes all night. In total, a person can not breathe normally until 4 hours out of eight hours of sleep, - Tsareva noted.
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The doctor noted that snoring in children can be diagnosed due to diseases of the pharynx, malocclusion, diseases of the nasopharynx, problems with the tonsils.
- The causes of snoring in adults are smoking, overweight. Men snore louder and more because they drink and smoke more often than women. The presence of an Adam's apple does not affect snoring in any way. If a person snores every night, he should be taken to a doctor, the specialist emphasized.
According to her, if a person lives alone. He can put a special program on his phone to track snoring.