Put Up and Shut Up
It has been estimated that almost half of all people snore at one time or another. Yet, nothing can kill a good night sleep faster than snoring, especially for those who have to share the same bed or room with an offender. A major complaint among married couples, snoring can affect their love lives, as well as cause both partners to feel a significant amount of irritability with one another. In addition, some medical reports have stated that there is a definite relationship between the risk of strokes as well as heart attacks and loud snoring, surmised by evidence that it can disturb the blood cells in the ceratoid artery nearest to air passages in the body (a major known cause of the disease know as atherosclerosis).
For some individuals, a moderate change in lifestyle such as losing weight and stop drinking any kind of alcoholic beverages before going to bed may help. Other people may even find that learning how to sleep on their side rather than on their back and/or a change in the type of pillows (particularly if they are made from non-allergic materials) may do the trick.
While surgery has been used to cure snoring in extreme cases, less severe snoring can often be cured with the simple solution of wearing a chin snoring strap to bed. Specially created to stop snoring chin straps are made in such a way as to gently keep the mouth shut by cradling the jaw shut. While they may not be that pretty to look at, they are certainly a lot more comfortable than mandibular splints used by dentists to pull a patient’s tongue forward in an attempt to control their snoring. Stop snoring chin straps are also readily available over-the-counter as well as online, whereas the splints require prescriptions.