3 Easy Ways to Stop Snoring

You or your husband or roommate may be among the many healthy adult individuals who snore, be it occasionally or every night.

Someone who shores a lot at night may be the center of jokes during family gatherings or even simple conversations at breakfast.

What seems to be a joke to many of our family members and friends is a serious issue to sleep experts and doctors.

For one, a snoring individual frequently keeps the person beside them from having a sound sleep, which can eventually result in the separation of rooms.

According to snoring expert and otolaryngologist Daniel Slaughter, MD, from Austin, Texas-based Capital Otolaryngology, snoring can lead to serious marital problems.

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3 Things You Can Do to Stop Snoring

Snoring is not just annoying, but 75 percent of snoring people have what Slaughter describes as "obstructive sleep apnea." 

Meaning, when one is breathing, it is interrupted while he is sleeping for short periods. As a result, it may increase the risk of developing heart disease. Here are some of the things you can do to avoid snoring and even prevent the risk of having a heart ailment from increasing.

1. Know the Reason for Your Snoring

If you are trying the usual remedies for snoring like the nasal strips, and time and again, it's useful, the main reason for your snoring, according to snoring experts, "is different from what you might think."

While there are individuals who snore due to "blocked nasal passage" as a result of sinusitis, other people's snoring may be hereditary, or because of some lifestyle changes. In more severe cases, snoring results from a specific condition like "sleep apnea."

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2. Engage in a Weight Loss Program

Weight loss may be helpful but not for all people. According to Slaughter, many thin people are snoring, as well. If you have gained weight and began to snore and were not snoring before the weight gain, weight loss may be an effective solution.

Slaughter explained that if there is weight gain around the neck, it squeezes the throat's internal diameter, making it more possibly "to collapse while sleeping," and this triggers one to snore.

3. Sleep on Your Side

By doing so, you snore less, and this has been tried, tested, and proven. According to sleep and snoring experts, sleeping on your back is quite more possible to lead to "constricted airways and snoring."

If you don't have any idea about this technique, worry not, because training yourself and getting used to sleeping on your side is almost effortless. However, you are likely to need a different pillow.

If the pillow you are using is too flat, you will tend to keep going back to your old position of sleeping on your back. 

There are different types of mattresses and pillows available online. They are designed for specific types of sleep positions, which include the "side sleepers."

The Need to Consult Your Doctor

If you are already chocking, irregularly breathing, or have stopped breathing for a few seconds at a time while you are sleeping, you better see your doctor and discuss your condition with you.

You're already probably suffering from sleep apnea. This is undoubtedly a possibly severe health condition, and only professionals can solve or treat it.

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