Cures for Snoring
For reducing snoring there are a number of simple suggestions or home remedies. Let's take a look at some of the options or popular snoring remedies, in addition to the ubiquitous tennis ball cure.
One simple remedy is to elevate your head with pillows or raise the head of your bed several inches. This reduces the chances of the throat muscle completely blocking your air passages when they relax in sleep. Sleep on your side, not on your back, which causes your tongue and soft palate to fall back, narrowing the airway.
Other lifestyle changes include exercising more, losing weight and abstaining from alcohol and smoking. You especially should not drink alcohol before going to sleep because alcohol relaxes your throat muscles, thereby blocking your air passages even more. In addition, smoking restricts your air passages and leads to snoring. Finally, you should avoid tranquilizers, sleeping pills, and antihistamines.
In addition to such so-called home cures, there are over-the-counter snoring remedies available, including anti-snoring pills, throat sprays, and nasal strips.
Anti-snoring pills contain natural plant enzymes and herbs that are said to prevent throat and nose tissue from swelling, resulting in a more open and smoother airflow that helps reduce snoring. Some popular brands are: Dr. Harris' Original Snore Formula, Sinus Buster, SnorEase, Snore Rx and Ysnore.
Throat sprays coat the soft tissues of the throat allowing the air to move more freely and lessening the noisy vibration. Some well known brands are Ayr Snore Relieving Throat Spray, D-Snore, Good Night Stop Snore, Helps Stop snoring, and Silence.
Nasal strips are drug-free, non-prescription devices that work mechanically to keep your nose open and make breathing easier. The most popular national brand is "Breathe Right." In addition, several drug stores and groceries market their own versions of nasal strips.
Snoring Info provides detailed information about how to stop snoring, including specific snoring cures, remedies, and treatments to help prevent snoring from disrupting your sleep, health, and relationships. Snoring Info is the sister site of Hair Loss Web.
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How do you know if you snore? Think about it. You snore when you're asleep. When you're asleep you don't have a clue what you're doing. So how do you know if you snore? Certainly the person in the bed beside you, unless you sleep alone, knows if you snore or not. And most often they'll let you know with an elbow to the head or a knee to the ribs. And then you wake up suddenly thinking that either the house has been robbed or you've just had an accident. The culprit in the meantime goes back to sleep.
Snoring. One of the most annoying problems. Most people think it's just that, annoying. The truth of the matter is that snoring can actually be a symptom of a more serious condition.
So what exactly DOES cause snoring?
Modern medical science has discovered that snoring is caused by physical obstructive breathing during sleep. This obstruction occurs when the muscles of the palate, the uvula, and sometimes the tonsils relax during deep sleep, and act as vibrating noisemakers when the air of breathing moves across them. Snoring can also be caused or worsened by excessive bulkiness of tissue in the back of the throat as it narrows into the airways.
So is all this just a big noise maker or is this serious?
Aside from the unpleasant noise that can disrupt your family life by preventing other members of the family from sleeping, snoring itself also can disrupt the sleep of the snorer himself and can be a sign of a more serious problem called sleep apnea.
Sleep apnea is a condition where the person sleeping actually stops breathing many times during the night. This condition can be serious enough to actually lead to death if not treated.
However, most symptoms of snoring are not that serious. Still it is something that many people seek cures for because of the problems they cause for those around them.
So just how is snoring cured or treated?
Actually there are a variety of snoring cures ranging from sewing a tennis ball into a snorer's pyjama back to electric shock mechanisms that jolt the snorer during the night. That's got to be annoying in itself. Most of these remedies are based on some sort of sleep behaviour modification. The theory behind this is that the person can be trained, kind of like a dog, not to snore. Unfortunately there is no medical evidence to show that any of these techniques work, other than to keep the snorer awake.
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My dear mum, snoring horrible...see what happens when you hold her nose. Tee hee.....
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