Prevent Snoring Articles

Many Ways to Help You Stop Snoring


What would you or your bedmate be willing to do to help you stop snoring? Most likely you would do just about anything that doesnt hurt or cost a lot of money. Sometimes that can be accomplished and other times it cant due to medical problems, but either way its in your best health interests to find out why you snore.

The treatment for you to stop snoring may be as simple as those adhesive nasal strips that you can tape onto your nose. Athletes wear them to improve their breathing through their nose as it opens the nasal passages to allow more airflow. Many people have found they also work while they sleep to provide more air and to reduce the occurrence of snoring.

However, a deviated septum, which can also cause snoring, will be much harder to treat. Its possible surgery will be required, but before you sweat about going under the knife there are other stop snoring treatments that may work for you.

Find Cause of Snoring Before Treating It At Home

Before you begin administering any home remedy to stop snoring you must understand why a person snores. Basically, its when the soft palate in the roof of your mouth relaxes while you sleep and begins to vibrate as you breathe. Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, blame this soft palate for the majority of snorers.

They also point to the uvula, the base of the tongue and the area around your tonsils for causing many cases of snoring. They have also found that tightening these tissue areas can reduce and, in some cases, stop snoring but many patients are reluctant to undergo the typical surgical procedure to remove some of the tissue due to the pain level endured. Many patients who may require multiple surgeries often do not return after the first one.

A new procedure has been developed which, instead of removing tissue from the culprit areas to stop snoring, a needle, heated with radio frequency energy, is used to create lesions on the tissue. This procedure effectively tightens the tissue and helps reduce the vibrations when the areas become relaxed during sleep. While pain increased with the total number of lesions created, they note in their studies the pain was not great enough to require narcotic pain relief and it usually only required one treatment.