Few words about snoring

During our lifetime, every one of us snore from time to time. Some of us might be severe cases, while others don't even notice it for an entire time of their lives. In any case, this condition might be an indicator of more dangerous diseases, such as sleep apnea or diabetes. Best case scenario, your snoring is bothering others in your sleeping room - especially your partner. In case this happens to you on a daily basis, its of the essence to find out what actually causes this condition, before you decide to try different things to suppress it. If you believe your health is in danger from snoring, you should visit a specialist as soon as possible, who will diagnose it and give you the best treatment.

Why do we snore at all?

For me, its because of a deviation in my nose. For you, it might be something totally different - which means there are numerous causes of snoring. The bottom fact is that something is preventing your airway passage to do its job properly, and you need to find out what that might be.

Even though causes of snoring are countless, lets have a look at few of most common ones:

Sinus and nasal issues: If you have an extreme physical defection (like I do), this might be the problem. Surgery is available as a treatment in this case.

Position in bed: Do not sleep on your back! Its not healthy and will worsen your snoring problems for sure. If you are used to sleeping on your back, try to sew a tennis ball on the back of your sleeping shirt - that will prevent you to sleep on your back!

Are you male? If the answer is yes, its a bad news: You are more prone to snoring than a female, since men's air passage is narrower.

How old are you? If snoring is becoming a problem for you since few years ago, it might be your age that is the cause. The fact is, the older you get, the narrower your throat is.

Are you overweight? Weight is one of the most common causes for snoring, since the fatten tissue builds up additional pressure on your airways.

Possible solutions for snoring

While many options are available, some work better than others, as always. If you want to cure the root of the problem, arm yourself with a lot of patience. This will take some time, because you need to change your entire lifestyle to becomes "snore-less". That is, if your case of snoring is extreme. Otherwise, ask yourself these questions:

Is my sleeping routine good enough? One of the things you will benefit the most of is a regular sleep routine. Go to bed and wake up at the same hours, every day. After two weeks, you'll already notice the difference!

Do I exercise regularly? Not only will you lose weight with this method (which by itself can cause snoring), but you have an opportunity to generate more muscle tone that will strengthen your soft tissue in air passages.

Why in a world do I still smoke?! In case you didn't notice, smoking is bad for your health. The same goes for the snoring - cigarette smoke causes irritation of the back of your throat, which leads to snoring.

Is my air passage often dry? Try using some sort of a humidifier, which should help you with dry throat and airways, since this can cause snoring oftentimes.

Beware: Snoring may indicate Diabetes

As you age, your body becomes more prone to snoring as well as type two diabetes. Like you already know, obesity is one of the factor that increases your chances of this type of diabetes, which may be discovered by fluctuating appetite that can cause high level of blood sugar. Recent studies have shown that around 63% of individuals suffering from both snoring and diabetes are more prone to other diseases.

Four ways to stop snoring

Are you one of many people distressed from uneasy nights, groggy mornings and fatigue? If you answered positively, then you might wish to investigate the problem of snoring further instead of blaming it on a disturbing month at work or family issues that have been troubling you.

New study calls attention to that you might be in trouble if you suffer from sleep problems in the course of the night and saw wood as well. Study pointed out that researches discovered a between snoring issues and sleeping issues; it looks like the two of aforementioned issues might indicate bigger danger of metabolic syndrome like diabetes, stroke or some heart diseases. More often that not this backs the fact that snorers suffer from high value of sugar in blood, high blood pressure, extra abdominal fat, high triglycerides in addition to low percent of good cholesterol.

Study explained that adults who wheeze on a regular basis are twice as likely to develop those kind of illness over a 3-year time-line unlike the ones who do not wheeze. This Investigation also presented results from individuals who have problems with falling asleep and it turns out their chance for developing metabolic syndrome is eighty percent higher than individuals who get good night's sleep.

Near 24 percent of women and forty percent of men are constant snorers, but overweight is one of the reasons that doesn't help for sure. Actually, American Academy of Sleep Medicine showed that exceptional bulkiness in throat prevents the airway from functioning regularly.

In case you recognized yourself in these lines and suspect you may be a chronic snorer, you should consider visiting your doctor, especially if you suffer from sleep apnea (long break between breaths while sleeping).

Several recommendations to aid you with your wheezing condition:

1. Reduce alcohol and sedatives intake. Your goal is to forget about having alcohol beverages at least 60 minutes before bedtime and try to find natural alternative for your sedatives, if you really need them.

2. Lose weight. This step might mend your health in general while keeping your snores down at the same time.

3. Try sleeping on the side. Sleeping on your back is doubtlessly the worst position for snorers, cause tongue may with ease slip down your throat and disable air passage. To yourself from shifting during the night and sleeping on the back, you want to try sewing a tennis ball or object alike on your pajama or shirt.

4. Clear up your nose often. If your nose is full of filthy stuff or you already suffer from deviated septum, you may use nasal-cleaning products or think about a surgery to fix deviation.