Somnologist Alexey Melekhin advised not to trust claims that people with severe snoring risk dying in their sleep by suffocating.
Pronounced loud snoring is inherent in such a condition as apnea – short-term cessation of breathing in sleeping people. You can often hear that this type of snoring is associated with the possibility of death due to the fact that a person’s breathing can stop for a long time during sleep. Somnologist Melekhin noted in a comment to aif.ru that in fact the possibility of such an event is too low to talk about it as a real threat. It is impossible to die due to snoring or sleep apnea, the specialist stated.
“Our body is designed in such a way that snoring, which occurs in both newborns and adults, is benign – you cannot die from it… A person’s nervous system will not allow him to die from respiratory arrest and will push him out of sleep,” the somnologist clarified.
B At the same time, Melekhin warned, a person can snore in his sleep due to apnea, which develops as a result of serious disorders. Death during sleep in a snoring person occurs primarily due to the consequences of these existing pathologies (especially if they are not controlled and treated).
“There is a whole class of diseases that lead to respiratory arrest during sleep – disruptions of the endocrine system, activation of neurodegenerative processes, chronic problems of the heart and blood vessels,” he listed.
The specialist explained that even if a snoring person takes medications or alcohol, the risk of night-time mortality will increase, primarily due to the changes they cause in the functioning of the cardiovascular system.
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Alexey Melekhin Health Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor, psychoanalyst, somnologist