Friday, April 2, 2010

Find a Cure For Snoring

By Betty Teal

Before you can consider any cures for snoring you have to look at some of the underlying causes first. Depending on the cause of your snoring, you will be able to use the best solution to resolve it.

If you are married to someone who snores, then you realize how infuriating it can be when the snoring commences, it just seems to get louder and louder. You nudge him, you ask him to change his position and it stops for a short time and then it begins again!

A call to our doctor and some medication, and I was able to sleep again! In reality our doctor believes that we were very lucky to find a cure so easily. The solution for snoring which involves taking medication barely has a 25% success rate - but just 3 short months later, the snoring returned.

Why is there such little success with medication?

It appears as though people are more happy with trying medication both prescribed or over the counter as it's easier to deal with. It's convenient and snorers and/or their partners believe it's going to solve the problem, and guess what - after a short while, the problem returns. The main reason is that pills tend to treat the symptoms and not tackle the root cause.

Lifestyle issues.

Snoring like most illnesses usually has a lifestyle element linked that is a main contributing factor. That is why it is sensible to sit down with your doctor and/or partner and try to isolate environmental and or possible physical causes.

For example, if you are 5'10" and weigh 250 pounds there is a serious chance that being overweight is a key factor. The same is true if you are a smoker. These are factors because the chief cause of snoring is an obstruction of the palette and/or nasal channels when the muscles loosen as you sleep. If you are obese then these passages clog up the airways causing the snoring sound. In this case, dropping your weight would help alleviate your snoring problem. In the long run, medication won't keep this problem from returning.

You should also consider environmental factors. If you're breathing bad quality air throughout the day, there's a good chance that it's contributing to your snoring.

In fact, air conditioning might be a chief culprit as it dries up the sinus and the throat passages which emphasises the snoring which can be so easily fixed.

Allergies.

A lot of people nowadays are also living with allergies and most of these allergies can produce serious concerns mainly to the sinus. So look at the possibility of allergy triggers that might be in the bedroom like pet hair, or even some pillows. By getting rid of some of these possible causes of allergies, one of the main culprits in producing a snoring problem may be lessened or eradicated.

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