Snoring can be a really bothering thing especially for those who sleep by you.
That is why you may one day end up waking up alone.
But the annoyance that occurs when you sleep is not the only thing to be afraid of it can also be a sign of a medical condition.
Snoring is created when the air flows past tissues in your throat.
That tissues start vibrating when you breathe and those vibrations create the loud and noisy sound.
This problem (snoring) is quite common, almost one third of the population snore while sleep.
It usually happens due to throat weakness which causes the throat to close when you, mispositioned jaw, fat that gathers around and in the throat or obstruction in the nasal passageway.
How to treat snoring? Snoring is usually treated the way that clears blockage in breathing passage.
That is why people that snore should lose weight, because this will stop fat from pressing on the throat, or to stop smoking because smoking weakens and clogs the throat it is also recommended to sleep on their side to prevent tongue from blocking the throat and creating the vibrations which are heard as snoring.
Of course there are many type of treatments.
Treatment with dental appliances which pulls the tongue a bit forward, treatment with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and others like body positioning and even surgeries which attempt to make the airway wider by removing the tissue in throat, but can be really expensive.
Of course there are also risks and side affects that can occur.