Sleep Apnea is a respiratory disorder which causes the person to stop breathing periodically throughout the night. A person with sleep apnea usually can stop breathing several hundred times a night, and it usually lasts anywhere up to a minute without breathing. Sleep Apnea is commonly an unnoticed disorder, usually it is detected by a partner complaining about loud snoring. This disorder is usually caused by a collapse of the airway in the throat, when the persons muscle tone relaxes, and that is what causes the snoring.
My dad has sleep apnea and his snoring used to be so loud you could hear it from the opposite end of the house through closed doors. When I was younger I did not realize that snoring may be a problem or even dangerous, because