How to Stop Snoring

If your partner or you snore, you want to know how to stop snoring. Snoring affects millions of Americans and their partners because snoring can keep everyone awake.

There are a variety of snoring solutions available.

Snoring is a sound created by increased vibrations around the vocal chords while sleeping. Traditionally, people expect snoring when you sleep with your mouth open. It’s not unusual in couples for one to nudge the other to ‘roll over’ when they are sleeping. When a person shifts in their sleep, they generally close their mouth. Also, when people sleep on their side or on their stomach, their mouth will close. This can reduce the sound created by snoring.

Sleeping on your back is thought to increase a person’s natural snoring. Your head tilts back, your mouth opens and you breathe in and out through your mouth rather than your nose. This can lead to your throat drying out, noisier breathing and snoring. A humidifier in the room can help with the throat drying out, but it will not correct the problem if your snoring is related to a sleep disorder.

If your snoring is related to a sleep disorder such as obstructive sleep apnea then simple solutions like a humidifier and just rolling over will not solve your problem. Obstructive sleep apnea actually causes a person to stop breathing while they are sleeping. The episode generally last less than a second or two before the body wakes up and gasps for air.

This gasping and wheezing increases the volume of snoring as the throat hurts when it collapses and then must expand rapidly. Oxygen levels in the blood decrease, leading to less oxygen getting to the brain and may cause headaches upon awaking. A person with obstructive sleep apnea suffers from more than just an obnoxious snoring noise, they suffer restless sleep, daytime exhaustion, weight gain, depression, headaches, sore throats and an inability to recover from illness quickly.

Sleep is an important component to your health and well-being. Sleep deprivation, whether it is caused by your snoring or your partner’s snoring, can have serious daytime consequences.

Physical effects can delay recovery time from illness, surgery and exercise. When you exercise, you stretch, strain and damage muscles so that they will repair and be stronger. A portion of this repair must occur while you are sleeping, but if you do not sleep well then your body cannot repair. These delays in repair and biological maintenance can leave you nursing a cold for weeks, an injury for months and more.

If you or a loved one snores so loud that you wake yourself or others up, you should consult a physician. Snoring is related to obesity, smoking, sleep disorders and physical problems (enlarged tonsils and collapsing throat) and more. You can:

• Stop smoking
• Adjust your lifestyle to eat fewer calories and exercise to burn calories
• Participate in a sleep study to determine if you have a sleeping disorder
• Use a CPAP machine machine if you have sleep apnea
• Invest in a humidifier
• Purchase an oral device which may minimize the snoring

Snoring disturbs everyone, but it may be a symptom of a bigger medical problem impacting all aspects of your life.

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