Infants and babies also snore while sleeping like older children. The causes of snoring in babies differ from that of older kids.
1. Immature tissues and organs
2. Laryngomalacia
One more cause for baby snoring is laryngomalacia. Laryngomalacia is a very common condition of infancy, in which the soft, immature cartilage of the upper larynx collapses inward during inhalation, causing airway obstruction. In time, the cartilage that supports tissues around the throat and airway become stronger which helps resolve the problem. Most children grow out of laryngomalacia by one year of age and nearly all children eventually outgrow the condition. The sound of snoring is more and baby becomes blue during suckling.
3. Diet
Some of the daily diet may also lead to snoring, which may not only for babies, it would also be applied in adults as well. Dairy products like milk will increases the production of mucus that causes narrowing of the airway. Eating high caloric foods also contributes to snoring during sleep. High caloric foods are not easy to digest and it stays longer in the stomach especially when eaten late at nights this leads to increase pressure in the diaphragm especially while lying down. This pressure in turn causes the snoring.
4. Tonsil and Adenoids
Adenoid hypertrophy causes a variety of symptoms of nasal obstruction and chronic mouth breathing and contributes to snoring. Adenoid hypertrophy is a specific disease to early childhood. For adenoid hypertrophy, the nose will be blocked, not only the drainage of nasal secretions will blocked, and the inbound and outbound air will also be blocked, eventually lead to mouth breathing. Surgical removal of the adenoids is a procedure called adenoidectomy, and cure the snoring and sleep apnea completely.
5. Facial malformations
Retrognathia and small lower jaw with large tongue in infants of trisomy21 (downs syndrome) result in sleep apnea. These infants may need CPAP support for survival.