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Home Remedy for Snoring
What is Snoring?
Snoring is a sound that occurs when there is a vibration of your soft palate (the back part of the roof of your mouth) while you are sleeping. Though the person himself is oblivious yet this can cause a great irritation to people around.
Snoring can be caused due to a number of factors. For instance the extra tissue in the palate and uvula, the fleshy piece between the tonsils-vibrates with each breath, and thus cause the sound of snoring. For many individuals the air passage has a tendency to close at any point and the thus narrowing of the airway will cause noises of snoring.
What are the causes of Snoring?
There are many reasons that cause snoring. These are
- During sleep the muscle tone in your tongue as well as your soft palate decreases and becomes soft till they collapse together. This causes snoring. The other soft tissues like tonsils and tongue can produce sounds similar to snoring. The position of the sleeping person also has an impact on snoring. Lying on your back usually makes your tongue to fall back toward your throat thus blocking it and causing you to snore.
- Any obstruction in your airway will also contribute to snoring. Enlarged tonsils and adenoids are the main cause of snoring in children
- Older people tend to snore more because muscle tone reduces with age.
- Over consumption of alcoholic beverages, certain medications, and sheer physical exhaustion may be associated with heavy snoring.
Home remedies for Snoring?
- Over weight people snore more. So lose weight and maintain a normal weight. This can greatly reduce or even end snoring as well as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
- Avoid smoking to stop snoring. Smoking causes increased nasal congestion and mucous in the throat area thus leading to snoring.
- Alcohol is also responsible for relaxation in the soft tissues and muscles in the throat resulting in snoring or sleep apnea. So reduce the intake of alcohol during bedtime.
- Sleep on your side and you will be sleeping less.
- Avoid going to bed too tired. Relax and read a book before you go to bed. When you sleep completely exhausted all your muscles in the oral cavity are relaxed leading to snoring.
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