How to cure or solve the snoring problem during night time?
Question by ms.mother: How to cure or solve the snoring problem during night time?
My husband recently snoring loudly while he is sleeping. This causes me can’t sleep well during night time. Is there anybody call tell me how to solve and cure this snoring problem?
Best answer:
Answer by Catherine
I am very sure that your husband is suffering from sleep apnea. The most common type of sleep apnea is obstructive sleep apnea. This most often means that the airway has collapsed or is blocked during sleep. The blockage may cause shallow breathing or breathing pauses.
When you try to breathe, any air that squeezes past the blockage can cause loud snoring. Obstructive sleep apnea happens more often in people who are overweight, but it can affect anyone.
Breathing pauses can last from a few seconds to minutes. They often occur 5 to 30 times or more an hour. Typically, normal breathing then starts again, sometimes with a loud snort or choking sound.
This results in poor sleep quality that makes you tired during the day. Sleep apnea is one of the leading causes of excessive daytime sleepiness.
Untreated sleep apnea can:
Increase the risk for high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, and diabetes
Increase the risk for or worsen heart failure
Make irregular heartbeats more likely
Increase the chance of having work-related or driving accidents
Lifestyle changes, mouthpieces, surgery, and/or breathing devices can successfully treat sleep apnea in many people. Your husband needs to contact his doctor for a sleep study to determine the severity of the sleep apnea. The study will determine how many times his air passage has collapsed in a minute and prescribe a CPAP machine. This machine will keep his air passage open and eliminate the collapse. In addition, this method of treatment will lessen his risk for the most serious effects if left untreated.
I personally suffer with sleep apnea and I must say since I got treatment my life is back to normal. I get the best sleep and I don’t wake up tired anyone. I don’t wake up my husband anymore from snoring.
Hope this helps!
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2 comments
Steve on January 15, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Snoring is one of those things that can be a problem for you and the people around you. If you want to stop snoring, it is important to consider the cause and severity of your snoring. Identifying the cause can help you choose the right cure.
It makes sense to try some simple non-invasive treatments first to see if they’ll reduce or prevent your snoring.
Here are some of those non-invasive tips to stop the snoring:
• sleep on your side – there’s a higher chance of snoring if you lie on your back, and sleeping on your stomach will kill your neck.
• keep a regular sleep schedule – and make sure you get enough sleep, many people snore only when they are overly tired
• elevate your head when sleeping – you can increase the angle of your bed by raising the head of the bed or use pillows to raise your upper body, don’t just raise your head that’ll put more pressure on your air way and have the opposite effect.
• avoid alcohol and tranquillizers – they basically cause the muscles of your jaw and throat to relax, increasing your changes of snoring.
• Treat your allergies – if your nose is stuffy it may force you to breathe through your mouth when sleeping. If your nose is stuffed I recommend using a neti pot, the are incredibly effective, natural and pretty cheap to.
• buy a mouth guard – mouth guards will keep your jaw muscles from relaxing too much, and prevent snoring. It may not be too attractive to your significant other but it’ll help you both get some sleep!
• Lose weight – when you’re heavier the extra weight puts pressure on your airway, causing snoring.
• if you smoke try to stop – smoking damages your respiratory system, which doesn’t help in the snoring department
Excessive snoring may also mean you have a more serious problem like sleep apnea.
If you wake up with a headache, are extremely tired during the day, don’t feel refreshed when you wake up, have trouble concentrating or a very low attention span, or wake up during the night choking and gasping for breath you should probably see a doctor.
Mild snoring that isn’t related to sleep apnea responds well to home remedies. Finding a cure for your snoring problem can result in an improved quality of life for you and your loved ones.
An effective and pretty simple solution is doing throat exercises, here’s a website with interesting information on the snoring exercises: http://www.thestopsnoringexerciseprogram.com/?hop=4safetynow
khurrum.com on January 15, 2011 at 10:45 pm
Try: Stop Snoring Mouth Piece – Anti Snore Device Sleep Apnea Cessation Aid
http://www.doctorshazia.com/stop-snoring-mouth-piece-anti-snore-device-sleep-apnea-cessation-aid
Also read more information on snoring at:
http://www.healthmedicalinformation.com/category/general-health/snoring
All the best