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Sleeping Problems (Home) > More Articles on Sleeping > Lifestyle Approach to Remedy Snoring A Lifestyle Approach to Remedy SnoringDid you know that the record of the noisiest snoring belongs to a man from Sweden? It recorded 93 decibels – the level of extremely loud disco music. When we are awake, the activity of the throat muscles keeps the breathing tract open. While sleeping, these muscles relax, allowing in the case of some persons its constriction. Then their breathing must become deeper in order to force the opening of the respiratory tract and let the air enter the lungs. This deeper and stronger breathing through the mouth provokes a noisy vibration of the palatal veil and the uvula, which leads to snoring. Different factors can cause or accentuate temporarily snoring: a cold, an allergic rhinitis, nasal polyps and swollen adenoid vegetations. The following categories of people have a predisposition for snoring: men – there are affected three times more men than women.
Snoring treatment actually means changing your lifestyle for the beginning. Thus you have to lose excessive weight and to give up smoking. It would be a good thing to reduce alcohol consumption as well and to have dinner at least 3 hours before going to bed. Go to bed and get up approximately at the same time every day. To continue with, try to use a different number of pillows or a special pillow for your neck. You can use books to raise the end of the bed with 7 – 10 cm. During a cold or a crisis of allergic rhinitis you can do before going to bed a gargle with cold water in which you added a drop of mint oil. This remedy enlarges the respiratory track, reducing the inflammation of the interior wall of the nose or throat. You must go to the doctor when the measures described previously don’t help. Just as your partner you are tired or sleepy during the day. Your partner tells you that sometimes you stop breathing while snoring. Then sleep apnea can be the cause. Finally, if you are healthy and no measure taken gives results, offer your partner ear stoppers as they are cheap and you can find them in any pharmacy.
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