How serious a deal is it to have a spouse whose snores like a buzz-saw? Going by one recent British study, snoring could actually be considered to be a major public health issue – not as much for the people who snore as for people who sleep next to them. The study finds that in one full lifetime of staying married, a snoring person can deprive his spouse of four years of lost sleep.
Anyone with a husband or wife who has a serious-enough snoring problem can actually lose enough sleep that they begin to develop mood disorders and memory problems. That’s what having trouble sleeping does. They are even at higher risk of falling asleep at the wheel when driving and killing themselves.
Now there is nothing much that can be done with heavy snorers; with people who have only a mild problem with snoring or a moderate one (where they can just change their sleeping positions) to stop snoring, certain snoring aids and remedies at home can really work.
The person who has a moderate snoring habit and who only snores when sleeping on his back, has a problem that’s easily solved. What such a person needs are snoring aids that will make it somewhat uncomfortable for him to sleep on his back.
We aren’t looking for something that makes it so uncomfortable for him to sleep on his back that he wakes up though. You could fashion a home-made solution for this out of a tennis ball. Cut one up in half and sew it to the middle of the back of his pajama shirt. This way, sleeping on his back is going to be somewhat uncomfortable and he’ll roll over really quickly should he start.
Snoring is like whistling – air passing through a passageway needs to be restricted to be made to rattle things enough to make a noise. If a restricted airway is what makes a person snore, you need to be looking for snoring aids that can make sure that the snorer your life is positioned in such a way when he sleeps that his airways are wide open. A body that lies flat allows the air passages leading to the lungs to lie flat a little bit too.
What a snorer needs is to look for is a way to be comfortable in bed without lying down flat. A hospital bed-like set-up could be ideal, if a little annoying. You could buy one of those wedge-shaped foam slabs that they sell, to prop up the mattress. Alternatively, you could just put a short stool or something under the bed so that the whole bed is at a slant.
