Natural Ways to Stop Snoring
The risks of smoking include the development of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke. When the required supply of oxygen is not sent to the lungs, heart and vascular system are strained, which results in their increased burden and work time. What is more worrying is, the ignorance of the person who snores, without realizing that his snore can be a serious condition and also that it’s disturbing his sleep. Disrupted and decreased quality of sleep due to sleep apnea or other reasons can also increase the risk of motor vehicle accidents by up to 8 percent.
Treatments for Snoring: Your family physician may be able to analyze the risk factors if any associated with snoring and recommend treatment if needed from one of the many sleep clinics. There are a number of treatments including.
Changes in Lifestyle to manage snoring: Personal physician might suggest the following lifestyle changes that help in combating snoring like:
Reduce Weight: excessive weight is one of the main reasons for snoring. Ideal person would be a doctor who can suggest the best way to reduce and keep your weight under control. This means that if you want to stop snoring you should reduce your weight.
Exercise: Physical activity keeps your weight under check and also keeps you healthy and gives you a sound sleep. walking, jogging, running and hiking improve sleep quality. Just remember to avoid strenuous exercise at least three hours before sleeping.
Quit smoking: First hand or second hand smoke is injurious to health and worsens symptoms because of throat irritation and coughing at night, leading to snoring.
Manage your sleep time: Going to bed and waking up at roughly the same time every day helps to promote restful cycles of sleep. Tiredness due to lack of sleep resulting in snoring can be avoided by going to bed and rising at the same time each day.
Refrain from alcohol and sleeping pills: Alcohol and medicines like sleeping aids or pain killers relax or contract the throat muscles abnormally. These make things worse by not allowing your brain to be alert thus the duration is prolonged even more.In the long run it causes severe damage to the body.
Sleep on your side: Medical research shows that sleeping on your back allows gravity to further narrow your airways increasing the risk of snoring.
In more serious cases, Sleep Disorders clinics can assess the severity and causes either at home or in in-clinic observations and tests. Treatments include breathing devices such as CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) equipment. You doctor prescribes a pressure rate which will be maintained by this device, which inhales air and passes it through funnels into a mask at the specified pressure. This equipment is typically worn over your nose and the specified pressure enables smooth and free airflow thus reducing snoring.
Other treatments include a dental device that is worn while sleeping to dilate the airways, holding the lower jaw and tongue forward. Radio wave treatments are utilized to contract tissues in the throat or tongue and surgeries that reduce the tissues in the nose, uvula, and palate (roof of mouth) or the bony tissues in the back of the throat to reduce the risk of blockages.
