Can A Pill Really Stop Me From Snoring?
October 30th, 2010 Filed Under Pill
There are many reasons why people snore and there are many treatments to help prevent snoring depending on the cause of you snoring problem. In all cases snoring is caused by a partial blockage of your airway.
This blockage can be caused due to a number of things from mucus, to conditions that cause your air ways to swell, to fatty deposits in your throat, to your tongue blocking your air passage during sleep. Some snoring may be related to temporary causes such as colds which may result in a build up of mucus in your throat or airways while you are sleeping.
Others may be caused by more permanent causes such as sleep apnea. Most causes of snoring however, can be treated. However, not all snoring treatments are equally effective and some may even pose health risks. Stop snoring pills are one form of snoring treatment that may not only lack effectiveness but may also pose some danger to your health as well.
How Stop Snoring Pills Are Supposed To Work
Stop snoring pills are a herbal based medication that like any other medication in pill form you take and within a certain period of time it is supposed to produce results. In the case of stop snoring pills the results of these pills are supposed to help clear the excess mucus from your system and reduce the swelling of your nasal passages and throat, helping your airway to remain open during sleep.
Obviously these pills are only going to be effective in cases where there is excess mucus present or swelling of the nasal passages or throat. These pills perform the same functions as nasal and throat sprays designed for snoring and in that respect they can prove helpful in relieving some of the swelling however, even though these pills are offered over the counter, rarely if ever do medical professionals recommend them for use, choosing instead to recommend sprays to solve these nose and throat problems.
One reason for this is that stop snoring pills contain ingredients that doctors simply do not feel are safe.
Why Do Doctors Think Stop Snoring Pills Are Unsafe, They Are Herbal Aren’t They?
Since most stop snoring pills are herbal, consumers automatically think of them as safe. After all herbal remedies have been around forever and are used for treatment of all kinds of illnesses.
The problem with this thinking, is that herbs are like anything else, while the majority of them are completely safe you can’t assume that just because something is a herb it is going to be safe to take.
Take for instance Belladonna an ingredient in most stop snoring pills. Although it is a herb belladonna is one of the most toxic plants in the Western hemisphere. Not only can this plant cause all sorts of problems including hallucinations it can also be deadly. While it is used in certain prescription medications the amount is monitored carefully.
With over the counter medications the amount may vary from brand to brand and oftentimes people taking this medication do not even know the exact amount of this herb they are getting. This makes the taking of any anti snoring pill contain ing this ingredient over a long period of time quite risky. Many of the other herbs used in stop snoring pills may also cause an allergic reaction in certain people and these reactions can be mild to extremely severe.
While pills may seem like an easy way to stop snoring they simply do not work in every situation and those situations in which they may prove somewhat effective they still pose a risk to your health. Since there are other products out there than can help reduce the swelling of nasal and throat passages and cut down on the amount of mucus that builds up during sleep it is advisable to use these products that pose less risk to your health than stop snoring pills.
After all, the goal of any anti snoring treatment is to allow you and those you love to get a peaceful and restful night’s sleep and how much rest can you really get if you are forced to worry about the side effects of the stop snoring pill you just took.
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Snoring And Weight Loss
August 29th, 2010 Filed Under snoring
One of the first things that your doctor will prescribe to help you quit snoring if you are overweight is weight loss. There is a good solid reason for this. When you gain weight and your body begins to store fat and every part of your body stores fat including your throat. Fatty tissue in the neck and muscles of your airway get flabbier. The more flabby the muscles in your airway are the more likely they are to vibrate when you breath in when sleeping causing you to snore.
By losing weight you will be losing some of that flabbiness in your throat and less vibration means less or at least quieter snoring. While in many cases losing weight may cure your snoring all together in other cases weight loss needs to be combined with other options.
In some cases, while losing weight may remove the excess fat in your neck and muscles it will not tone those muscles. Doing throat toning exercise as you lose weight will strengthen your throat muscles and help stop them from vibrating.
Losing weight is no easy task, but it has many other healthy benefits besides stopping your snoring. It can add to your general overall health and allow for more restful sleep. Which in turn, believe it or not, can actually help you to diet successfully. Studies have shown, that snoring disrupts most peoples sleep, even though they may not be aware of it.
When sleep is disrupted it often results in sleep deprivation which can cause hormonal imbalances in your body. One of those imbalances is an increase in ghrelin which increases appetite. So as strange as it sounds, disrupted sleep may actually make you feel hungrier. The more restful your sleep, the more likely it is that your ghrelin levels will return to normal and the less hungry you will feel which will make sticking to that diet far easier.
Keep in mind however, that being overweight may not be the only cause of your snoring. It may well be the major cause or it may simply be that being overweight has simply exacerbated other causes that already existed.
Either way reducing that weight will help you to live a longer and healthier life and will also help you stop snoring even if you have to combine that weight loss with other anti-snoring aids and treatments. The less fatty tissue in your throat, the more toned your throat muscles are, the more effective other treatments can be.
Studies have shown that weight loss alone is most often effective for people who did not have a history of snoring until they had sudden weight gain. In people that experience their first bouts of snoring after gaining weight, the weight is usually the cause of the snoring and so losing that weight often solves the problem. In some cases gaining as little as ten pounds may turn a non snorer into a snorer practically overnight.
In other people, who have been overweight for a long period of time and have had no snoring problem and then suddenly begin snoring, weight is less likely to be the cause of the snoring unless there has been additional weight gain just before the snoring began. In such cases while losing weight is still a good idea your doctor should consider other causes and offer other treatment ideas to coincide with your weight loss.
In the final analysis being overweight carries a number of health risks and can cause a number of problems and snoring may simply be one of the problems. Losing weight to stop snoring in order to save your marriage or your partner’s sanity may be just the reason you need to start that diet and exercise program but, stopping snoring is just one of the benefits you will reap by getting down to a healthier weight.
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