How to Stop or Reduce Snoring?
What the Experts Say
When the snoring is only occasional there are some simple anti-snoring treatments that just may resolve the problem. As recommended by most physicians the common recommendations are as follows:
- Try sleeping on your side
- Add extra pillows
- Adhesive strip over the nose
- Try oral or nasal decongestants or antihistamines per your medical professional.
In a more serious case of snoring is caused by airway blockages. The airway blockages can cause more serious problems like swelling of the adenoids, enlarged tonsils and the soft tissues can also swell around the neck. Drop a few of the extra pounds will go a long way to resolving the issue. Your doctor may want to take out your tonsils and adenoids if the blockage is severe enough. It is also possible to have blockages in the nose like a deviated nasal septum. Surgery is required for improvement for these cases.
With a slight or even a serve snoring problem you may want to stay away from certain drugs. Drugs like sleeping pills and sedatives can have an adverse effect by relaxing the throat area during sleep making matters a lot worse. Another drug you may not think of as a drug that will cause the same problem is alcohol.
Here is maybe the most important thing to be aware of with a snoring problem. With some help in this area or a sleep study by a doctor you may never know until it’s too late. You may also suffer from sleep apnea which can be very serious because you will stop breathing for as much as 12 to 16 seconds at a time causing you to gasp for oxygen.
Today with so many people over weight sleep apnea affects as many as 18 million people. You can always spot them because they are drowsy during the daytime. And this is because their sleep is interrupted so many times gasping for breath. Sleep apnea can occur in anyone children and adults of all ages. The biggest numbers of those that suffer are men that are over-weight.
A little more of the downside of this problem is all the other things it can cause. Sleep apnea can be the cause of high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The really bad part is without help from a spouse or a sleep study most people do not even know they suffer with this problem.
If you are aware of the problem do not let it go untreated. There are a number of things that are very successful in treating the problem that you will find offered on this site.
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