Reasons for Snoring

The more common reasons for snoring are sleeping on your back or chronic fatigue (completely exhausted). Snoring is a noise that is produced when the sleeper is breathing in and causes vibration of the soft palette and uvula in the back of the throat. Snoring could possibly be serious if it is associated with Sleep Apnea, but only 1 in 100 people that snore have Sleep Apnea. There are other symptoms to go along with Sleep Apnea besides normal snoring such as snorting, extremely loud snoring and gasping for air.

How to Prevent Snoring

There are a few simple things you may to try to prevent snoring. If you’re a back sleeper try sleeping on your side by putting a pillow or an object you won’t roll on behind you. When you’re a natural back sleeper, just trying to sleep on your side won’t work initially, once you go into a Stage 2 sleep cycle your body may naturally go into your normal back position. There are also mouth devices on the market that are said to help prevent snoring. The device restricts the lower jaw from falling back and keeps the airway open by preventing the tongue from touching the soft tissues in the back of the throat. There is also a snore reduction pillow that is said to reduce snoring. The snore reduction pillow will keep the neck in alignment with the rest of the body and will help to keep the airway open for easier breathing and reduce snoring. The last option to prevent snoring is laser surgery for snoring, which should of course be the last option. Laser surgery for snoring will open the airway for easier breathing.