{"id":295,"date":"2011-03-03T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T01:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-03-03T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T01:58:04","slug":"adenoids-and-tonsils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Adenoids and Tonsils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been doing some reading online and ran across a post from a gal who was talking about her boyfriend and his snoring issue.\u00a0 The post focused on how he&#8217;d had his tonsils and adenoids removed, apparently due to numerous bacterial infections, but how it didn&#8217;t make any difference with his snoring.\u00a0 It reminded me that I had failed to mention in my <a title=\"Contributing Factors\" href=\"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/?page_id=10\">contributing factors<\/a> posting that I also had my tonsils removed as a child.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically having them removed hasn&#8217;t seemed to help prevent any of my snoring as I aged.\u00a0 Wikipedia reports that <a title=\"Extra Tissue Removal - Surgery - Wikipedia Link\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snoring#Surgery\" target=\"_blank\">extra tissue<\/a> around the soft palette often contributes to snoring and is sometimes removed in surgical procedures to help eliminate the snoring.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a picture of some of these parts in the back of the throat.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine how the uvula would actually make any difference with snoring just because it appears to hang there and not really touch anything.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_296\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/MouthParts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-296  \" style=\"border: 1px solid grey;\" title=\"Throat Tissue Parts\" src=\"http:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/MouthParts-282x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/MouthParts-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/MouthParts.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All these parts, the uvula, tonsils and adenoids (which are not typically visible) can restrict airflow and potentially contribute to snoring.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have to wonder if maybe my adenoids play any role in my snoring or not&#8230;\u00a0 for now the mouthpiece is working great though, so I won&#8217;t dwell on it too long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been doing some reading online and ran across a post from a gal who was talking about her boyfriend and his snoring issue.\u00a0 The post focused on how he&#8217;d had his tonsils and adenoids removed, apparently due to numerous bacterial infections, but how it didn&#8217;t make any difference with his snoring.\u00a0 It reminded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoppedsnoring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}