When you realize that over one billion of people world-wide snore (and where 70 million live in the US, Germany and the UK), you'll know that snoring is one of the most common sleep disorders affecting the world population. The snoring problem can take dramatic turns as we age. While close to 20% men in their early 30s snore compared to only 5% women, this figure can change when people reach their 60s. At this age, 60% men could be looking for snoring remedies compared to 40% women.
Though snorers mostly do not realize that they snore when asleep, many people are woken up by the noise they create. Whichever way you look at snoring, this noisy disorder can be very disturbing both for the sufferer as well as his or her partner who shares the same bed. How to stop snoring is a burning question that plagues the mind of both the victim as well as the partner.
Before you know more about how to stop snoring, and the relevant snoring remedies, you should know what causes the snoring problem. There are many body functions which we take for granted, and breathing is one of them. This is an involuntary action, though the most important. To allow the breathed in air into the lungs, there are several organs and its muscles and tissues that work in an orchestrated manner. Tongue, soft palate, uvula, nose and throat are the main organs that take an active role in breathing. They are in a tight state, keeping the air passage open for the air to flow in and out. This is when we are awake. All this may change when we fall asleep. The relevant tissues may get overtly relaxed and collapse causing not only severe blockage in the air passage but also a vibrating sound. This vibrating sound is commonly known as snoring.
Without going into the various causes of snoring that include both physiological, life style and anatomical factors, let us talk more about snoring remedies. Again, there is no dearth of treatment options to cure snoring. The choice of treatment option would largely depend on the precise cause of snoring. For example, if obesity is the identified cause of snoring, your doctor might ask you to reduce weight. Likewise refraining from alcohol or use of tranquilizers or sedatives might be curtailed if the doctor diagnoses overt relaxation of the relevant muscles is responsible for your snoring problem.
When doctors find that none of the non-surgical options to cure snoring work to solve the problem, they recommend surgery. Somnoplasty is one of the most recommended surgical options for treating habitual snoring. This is one of the least invasive, relatively painless and least complicated snoring remedies that are performed with local anesthesia at the outpatient department of an ENT surgeons clinic.
Depending on the doctors compatibility with a particular procedure, he or she may also suggest laser surgery for snoring. There are various effective laser-assisted surgeries for treating snoring. These include LAUP or the Laser Assisted Uvuloplasty done using CO2 lasers to reduce or eliminate the obstructive tissues and the UPPP or the Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty where the main aim is to enlarge the air passage to ease breathing.
The primary aim of all these surgical snoring remedies is to remove or reduce the amount of tissues obstructing the air passage. While the laser-assisted surgeries take the help of laser beams to achieve this goal, somnoplasty uses pre-heated electrode to burn the inner cells of the tissues that are causing the obstruction. The burnt tissues get re-absorbed by the body and at the end of the procedure there is a significant reduction in the volume of obstructive tissues. However, a single session of somnoplasty may not be enough to correct the snoring issue. On an average a person may need 5 to 6 treatment sessions, performed with a gap of 4 to 6 weeks between two sessions to get full relief from snoring.
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Marc MacDonald is an independent health researcher who has spent considerable time and effort in studying and collating information about sleeping problems and sleep apnea treatments.
Marc's interest on sleep-related issues actually began with his wife's sleep apnea disorder. Fastforward to a few years, and hes now properly immersed with extensive sleep research and studies. He has also written innumerable research reports on particular subjects like
Somnoplasty, sleep apnea and weight loss, deviated nasal septum surgery,
snoring remedies, good night sleep techniques, and anxiety and panic attacks.
If you are looking for effective and practical cures for snoring, as well as tips on how to get a better sleep, feel free to read the articles that Marc has shared with the online public. His aim is to share his knowledge and spread the gift of a good and healing sleep.
