Check out your pattern of snoring and see where you belong!
(Dr. Lee in her treatment with a needle-pricking therapy into sinuses of a patient)
The Level of Snoring
Stage 0: Clear inhaling with no sound during a deep sleep - Healthy
Stage 1: Slight snoring at the beginning of a deep sleep - Good
Stage 2: Periodical snoring - Slightly blocked sinuses
Stage 3: Repeat loud and soft snoring – Heavily congested sinuses
Stage 4: No snoring, but breathing through the mouth - Worse than Stage 3
Stage 5: Sleeping with an open mouth
Stage 6: Possible sleep apnea syndrome
Stage 0 indicates healthy state of the sinuses. Stage 1, which exhibits slight snoring in the begging of sleep is considered to be in a good state. Stage 2 indicates a partial blockage somewhere in the paranasal sinuses. In stage 3, it exhibits the alternating pattern of loud and soft snoring, caused by more blocked sinuses.
People who belong to stage 4 may not have loud snoring, but mouth breathing is being carried out in a subtle manner. No one hardly recognizes the seriousness of the condition, but this could be more devastating than snoring. The sinuses are more blocked than the previous stage. If the sinuses become more obstructed than stage 3, nasal breathing becomes more difficult, leading the mouth to open. Breathing through both mouth and the nose does not vibrate the uvula. Subtle mouth breathing does not create enough negative pressure to move the uvula to generate sound. In some cases, people inhale through the nose and exhale through their mouth, making it difficult to define it as snoring, however, the blockage is more serious than the 3rd stage. Feeling dryness in the throat, lips, or mouth after waking up, or soreness in the throat, or drooling marks mouth breathing. People who frequently suffer from the following symptoms should look into this matter carefully: sore throat, tonsillitis, slight cough, bronchitis, laryngitis.
At stage 5, people, whose sinuses are almost completely blocked, complain fatigue after waking up. Their mouth is opened during their sleep and the uvula vibrates over night. At this stage, people begin to think the snoring could be the underlying reason for the tiredness.
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