The way you sleep affects the quality of your day. If you snore, the amount and quality of the sleep you receive is reduced. Your partner’s sleep maybe affected as well. Snoring will leave both of you tired, irritable, more forgetful and less efficient during your waking hours.
Snoring can have serious consequences.
If you are a chronic snorer, you can find your personal relationships turning into nightmares. Sleeping alone is only comforting when you want to sleep alone. Being forced to sleep in another room would hurt. Furthermore, snoring embarrassment may cause you to avoid overnight visits with friends and family or even limit your business and recreational travel. Snoring has been linked to increased depression and decreased sexual function and pleasure. Additionally, medical studies show that snoring can increase your risk for heart attack by over 30% and risk for stroke by more than 60%!
You can reduce or eliminate snoring problems.
All physicians agree there are safe, inexpensive ways to improve your sleep. One of the safest ways is by using Breathe Lift nasal strips --- offering the most air intake of any nasal strip. Breathe Lift will make it easier for you or a loved one to breathe deeply and regularly all night long.
Another product you could try is a no snore pillow. Side sleeping with the Better Sleep Pillow helps reduce snoring.
What causes snoring?
Snoring is caused by vibrations of the throat tissue or the uvula. The uvula is that tear-shaped tissue which hangs down over the tongue at the back of your throat. Yet many factors also increase the chances of these vibrations occurring. Some common causes are:
• congestion caused by the common cold or other illnesses
• allergies
• pregnancy
• sleep position
• obesity
• smoking
• certain medications
• alcohol
Physical conditions can also increase snoring, including:
• deviated septum
• enlarged tongue
• swollen tonsils
• adenoids
• throat polyps
• a receding chin or lower jaw displacements and ailments
Any one of these problems can compromise your breathing by restricting, reducing or closing the airways while your sleep. When it is harder for air to flow in and out , increased vibrations, which produce the sounds we know as snoring will occur.
How can you reduce snoring?
Breathe Lift nasal strips are a drug-free aid that can safely reduce or eliminate snoring by opening breathing passages while you sleep.
Ways to Reduce or Eliminate Snoring
Some of the more common causes of snoring respond well to a variety of inexpensive, self-help measures. These natural methods provide relief without the use of costly medicines or procedures.
Lose weight. Weight doesn’t just gather around your midsection or thighs. It collects in your neck, too. Studies show that obesity increases snoring by surrounding and constricting airways with an excess buildup of fatty tissue.
Stop smoking. Smoking irritates the breathing passages and causes respiratory problems. Irritated tissues swell even in the throat. Because of this, smokers are more prone to snore.
Avoid alcohol before bedtime. Alcohol over-relaxes your airway, causing the back of your throat to collapse or sag. Normal breathing is compromised and snoring results.
Change your sleeping position. Avoid sleeping on your back. Stuffing pillows or blankets behind you to help you stay in a better breathing position.
Elevate your head. Raise the head of your bed or use a better pillow (NOTE: You can place a link to your snoring pillow site here) to help support your airways and kept them in better alignment.
Check your medicine. Certain over-the-counter medicines and prescriptions are muscle relaxants and can increase snoring. If you or your partner notices that happening, talk to your doctor about a different solution.
Avoid known allergens.
Try a nasal strip! Nasal strips help keep the nose wide open. Breathe Lift nasal strips are drug-free, latex-free and non-prescription. Better than standard nasal strips, they are designed to both lift and spread open the nasal passages, providing more dilation and support than other nasal strips brands.
