Snoring may be very annoying and a great frustration. It doesn’t matter whether you are snoring or if your partner is keeping you awake. It’s still a pain. Snoring sounds horrible, disrupts your sleep and affects your waking hours, too. The good news is that there are plenty of ways to solve this problem and get your sleeping back on track. This article has a number of good suggestions for dealing with your snoring problem.
In order to reduce snoring, try a change of sleeping position. Snoring often happens when people are sleeping on their backs. Since gravity pulls your head down it can cause your throat to close a little. Sleep on your side, as a means of making sleep easier on your neck, and to help reduce your snoring.
Ironically, by taking sleeping pills, you could end up snoring. Therefore, if you do not take them, you will greatly reduce the risk of snoring. Part of the therapeutic effect of sleeping pills involves muscle relaxation. The muscles that keep your nasal passage open will lose their ability to do that, leading to a narrower nasal passage. Then you’ll be snoring.
Snoring can be remedied by sleeping propped upon 2-3 pillows or by sleeping in a position similar to sitting. This redirects drainage from the nose toward the lungs, which keeps the airway open. You may find that it helps alleviate or reduce your snoring.
It seems ironic, but taking sleeping pills can lead to snoring; if you avoid taking them, therefore, you can reduce the likelihood that you will snore. One of the ways that sleeping pills work is to relax the muscles of your body. The muscles responsible for keeping your nose open will not do their job and your pathways will get narrower. Therefore, you are more likely to snore.
If your nasal passages remain open, you can prevent yourself from snoring. A stuffed nose, due to a cold or allergies, or any other type of constriction, could be causing the snoring issue. Use steam showers, humidifiers, neti pots or vapor rub to clear your nose. Nasal strips are also a good investment in the fight against snoring. These are placed over the bridge of the nose and allow extra air to flow through by forcing the nasal passages to open.
Hopefully you now have a better idea of why you or your partner are snoring. The advice in this article covers many of the common causes of snoring, and can help you to resolve them. If you are concerned that something more serious may be causing you to snore, you should probably talk to your doctor.
