Will enlarged tonsils cause snoring?

Modern medical research has shown that there are many reasons that cause a person to snore, such as the shape of a person's tongue or rhinitis, which can cause snoring. The tonsils are mainly located in the lymphatic tissue below the mouth and above the throat. The shapes and sizes of tonsils are different in each person's body. But if a person's tonsils are too enlarged, will it cause snoring?

Will swollen tonsils cause snoring?

1. Analysis of tongue enlargement: Although some people are not fat, it is possible that some parts of their body are too fat, such as enlarged tonsils, soft palate and tongue, long uvula, loose throat, and tongue suffix.

2. Analysis of obesity: Obesity is one of the most important causes of snoring. Because the airways of obese people are narrower than those of normal people, when they are awake during the day, the airways remain open when the throat muscles contract, thus preventing the airways from being blocked. However, when you sleep at night, your nerve excitability decreases, your muscles relax, and your pharyngeal tissues become blocked, causing the upper airway to collapse. When air flows through the narrow area, it creates vortices and causes vibrations, which lead to snoring sounds.

3. Analysis of nasal abnormalities: Physiological abnormalities in the nasopharynx and jaw of the respiratory tract can also cause snoring. For example, a deviated nasal septum and nasal polyps can cause nasal narrowing, resulting in airflow blockage and snoring.

4. Analysis of cardiovascular diseases: There is a natural connection between snoring and cardiovascular diseases. Habitual snorers often have varying degrees of apnea, which causes hypoxemia and increases blood pressure.

5. Analysis of sleep apnea: The characteristics of snoring caused by sleep apnea syndrome are breathing with the mouth wide open during sleep, repeated awakening due to breathing cessation, appearing very tired when waking up, and sometimes having severe headaches.

Will enlarged tonsils cause snoring? In fact, there are many reasons for snoring. If a friend who does not usually have snoring symptoms only snores when his tonsils are swollen, it is caused by enlarged tonsils. Then we should first solve the problem of enlarged tonsils, so that the symptoms of snoring will be alleviated.

Enlarged pharyngeal tonsils can cause nasal congestion

Tonsillitis hypertrophy and tonsil enlargement are the important causes of nasal congestion in children. The pharyngeal tonsils, also known as pharyngeal tonsils, are lymphoid tissue that grows at the top of the nasopharynx, hidden in the back of the nasal cavity, on the top and posterior wall of the nasopharynx. Because the nasopharyngeal cavity of children is relatively narrow, when the adenophora proliferates and hypertrophies, it will block the posterior nasal aperture and cause nasal breathing obstruction.

The human pharynx is rich in lymphatic tissue, which is gathered into clusters called tonsils. The two largest ones are located in the collar, which are commonly known as tonsils. In fact, the correct name should be frontal tonsils. When your tonsils are swollen, open your mouth and you can see the tonsils bulging on both sides of the back of your throat due to swelling.

Pharyngeal lymphoid tissues such as tonsils and tonsils are like sentinels guarding the gate of the pharynx and play an important protective role in human health. It can produce lymphocytes and immune antibodies, and can eat up bacteria and viruses that invade through food or air, and has extremely strong defensive functions.

Generally speaking, children's tonsils and tonsils may experience physiological hypertrophy when their lymphoid tissue proliferates between the ages of 5 and 10 (many types of antibodies must be formed during childhood). As we age, the tonsils and amygdalae gradually degenerate and shrink.

However, if the tonsils or tonsils become pathologically enlarged, they will block the air passage from the nose to the pharynx, making it impossible to breathe through the nose, which in turn may cause many diseases throughout the body.