Bad sleep snoring disrupts your sleep and health

Snoring, toileting and co: Common causes of sleep problems
About one in four Germans suffer from sleep disorders. The most frequent cause for this, according to a survey, are thoughts that the affected people make. But sleep can also be disturbed by the partner. For example, by the bed neighbor snoring loudly.

When the sleep is disturbed
There are many good reasons for more sleep: It promotes health, creativity and makes people happier. Last but not least, he serves beauty. But by no means all people find it easy to rest at night. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) about 25 percent of the population reported in the Federal Health Survey 1998 (BGS98) on sleep disorders and eleven percent experienced their sleep as "often not restful". However, the number of people affected may be much higher. For example, a representative survey conducted by the GfK market researchers on behalf of the "Apotheken Umschau" showed that more than one in two Germans has sleep problems.

Sufficient sleep is important for your health. But often the restful sleep is disturbed. In a survey, about one in ten complained about the snoring partner. (Image: Kaspars Grinvalds / fotolia.com)

There is a lot of pondering in the bed
Of the 2,000 people who took part in the survey, 1,063 indicated that they had at least occasional sleep disturbances. Thoughts about experienced or imminent events are the most common cause (54 percent) of those who reported sleeping problems. That the pondering disturbs the sleep, also showed scientific research. For example, researchers from the University of Trier and the University of Hagen have recently reported on a study, according to which thinking about what is not done at night leads to sleep disorders. And even at the weekend.

Every tenth complains about the snoring of the partner
In addition to the nightly pondering, there are other causes that can affect sleep. Thus, 30 percent of respondents called the way to the toilet, 23 percent full moon and 19 percent the time change as problems. Behind it came physical discomfort and light sleep, each with 18 percent. And after all, one in ten respondents with sleep problems complained that his partner was snoring. Even in married couples or people in solid partnership, even one in seven said that they had snoring bed neighbors as a reason for their sleep problems. In the GfK survey, only about every sixteenth of men complained about the partner's noisy sawing, but among women, one in five felt disturbed by their partner. However, women generally sleep worse than men, according to experts from the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention a few months ago).