Will snoring be your death sentence?
September 13, 2009 - 0:0
Do you wake up fatigued because your snoring doesn't allow for a deep, good night's rest? Does your spouse complain that you keep her up all night? If so, it's time to take action before more serious health issues occur.
More than an annoyanceAlthough snoring is considered somewhat common, it could be an indication of sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a health condition in which breathing stops and starts throughout the night repeatedly.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an interruption of regular breathing or obstruction of the airway during sleep can pose serious complications for the health of the individual; symptoms of sleep apnea should be taken seriously.
Fix the problem before it worsens
The lack of sleep caused by snoring has been linked to a number of health problems including obesity, depression, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and more according to the CDC. So how can you fix your snoring problem?
Surgery is costly and can be dangerous, and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, which force air through your airway, can be extremely uncomfortable. Oral appliances are an easier option, but can be costly when purchased through a dentist.
The cause of snoring
When you sleep, the muscles in the back of your mouth, tongue, and throat relax. If they relax too much, your jaw and tongue collapse and block your airway thus restricting the flow of oxygen to your lungs, heart and brain. As you breathe the muscles and uvula vibrate and knock against the back of your throat. This causes the sounds you hear during snoring.
To resume breathing, the person must awaken (although one rarely remembers the awakening) and create tension in the tongue and throat tissue. This process opens the airway and causes a distinctive snorting sound. Within a short period of time this process often repeats itself. A person may wake up several hundred times during an 8-hour sleep time. Consequently, this can cause chronic fatigue and other major health problems.
An affordable snoring solution
Skip the dentist's office and get the same quality oral device at a much lower cost in the comfort of your own home. To eliminate or reduce sleep apnea and snoring, Cure My Snore constructs a snoring oral appliance the same way dentists do for 1/3 the cost. You wear this oral appliance while sleeping. The oral appliance repositions your lower jaw forward and does not allow your jaw to collapse and block your air passage way while you are sleeping. By maintaining the air passage way clear while you are sleeping, Cure My Snore oral appliance eliminates or reduces your sleep apnea and snoring.
More than 127 clinical studies performed by more than 100 universities and hospitals, including Harvard and Yale, have shown that oral appliances eliminate or reduce sleep apnea and snoring.
(Source: doityourself.com)