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Snoring: A Simple Problem, An Important Solution
Snoring loudly can affect the quality of your sleep and of those around you as well. Snoring can sometimes lead to poor health and is an indication of improper sleep-wake cycles. There are, however, effective solutions to treat snoring and they can help remedy the issue, making it easier for you and your partner to fall asleep.
What is Snoring?
Snoring happens when the air is unable to travel freely through the throat and nasal area while you’re sleeping. As the surrounding tissues vibrate, the snoring sound is produced. For people who have a free flowing stream of air that travels through the nose and throat, the tissues still vibrate but not so much to produce any sound.
An important factor that may increase snoring is the normal aging process. As a person ages, the throat muscles begin to relax and as a result, someone will begin to snore. Also, abnormalities in the throat and nasal region like tonsils, polyps, or nasal septum can cause snoring by making the throat more narrow. The onset of inflammation and allergies can also cause snoring.
Remedies to Stop Snoring
There are a number of easy remedies that someone can follow to reduce the occurrence of snoring by considerable amounts. If practiced, you can significantly improve your quality of sleep and the sleep of those around you.
1. Improve Lifestyle Practices
Lifestyle plays a large role in in the occurrence of snoring. Poor habits like smoking and alcohol consumption can lead to an increase in body fat. They can make you gain weight and lead to the deposition of fatty tissues on the cheek and neck. This will decrease the efficiency of airflow and cause snoring.
Losing weight is one of the best ways to treat snoring. Exercising improves the muscles’ ability to function properly and reduces excess fat. Committing to at least 30 mins of exercise a day can help fight the weight increase and keep you sleeping comfortably.
2. Bedtime Remedies
There are easy bedtime remedies that you can follow to help improve breathing. Rinsing sinuses with saline helps clear the nasal passage and will allow you to breath more clearly. If you have allergies from dust or mites, it is important to make sure you clear them out before going to bed. You can also use a humidifier to clean the air that you breathe.
Another great why to ease snoring is by changing your sleeping position once in a while. It can help you identify the best sleeping position where you don’t snore. It can also help the air pass smoothly through the air passage. Also, there are anti-snoring appliances available in the market that may prove to be highly beneficial in solving your snoring problem.
Lifestyle or Behavioral Changes
If your snoring is due to excess weight, alcohol consumption or sleep positioning, your doctor will ask you to try to make adjustments in your day to day lifestyle to find out if any of those factors are causing you to snore. Sometimes all it takes are a few minor adjustments, and if it works out, you can avoid more extensive solutions.
Improve the way You Sleep with a Nasal Surgery
In some cases, snoring will continue to happen even if you commit to following these tips. If this is the case, it may be time to consider a nasal surgery. Nasal surgeries are safe and effective procedures that can help you find relief from snoring.
Contact Our Office
Contact our office if you’re suffering from chronic snoring that is affecting your life and the lives of those around you. The snore experts will help solve your problems and make a good nights rest a possibility.
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Snoring: A Simple Problem, An Important Solution
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HOW DO I USE A CPAP?
Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) is considered by many the gold standard for the treatment of sleep apnea, especially for very severe cases. The CPAP and APAP machines are designed to increase air pressure going through the throat. This prevents the airway from collapsing during inhalation. At Snore Experts, we have helped countless patients get a good night’s rest using CPAP treatments to treat their sleep apnea. The goal of positive airway pressure is to keep the airway from collapsing using air pressure.