Stop Snoring Now!

Dr. Alice Boghosian on a device to stop snoring

My dog snores all the time, and I can’t sleep. What do I do to make her stop snoring?

Earplugs. That, and turn the thermostat down a bit. I’ve noticed that my dogs don’t snore when they are curled up in the “normal sleeping dog” position (sorry, don’t know what else to call it but when sprawled out they snore like crazy. So, during the summer, when it’s hot — they snore. During the winter, they don’t.

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What is THE ULTIMATE SLEEPING POSTURE?

What is THE ULTIMATE SLEEPING POSTURE?
I snore like a Banshee wolf! if I sleep lying flat on my back.
In aim to cure this breathing condition, I place my pillows underneath my knees instead of behind my head. This not only keeps me lying on my back as I sleep, keeping my head level with my shoulders helps control my snoring.

They actually have pillows that are created to be used under the knees for people with certain back issues (for example, I have no curve in my lower back, so those help when I lay on my back, though I do sleep on my side) I would suggest a small (not very high) pillow to support the weight of the head, otherwise, after a few nights you might find that you wake with a tight neck or shoulders from strain on the neck.

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How can I put my cat on a diet w/o her hating me or whining all day?

I was just looking to see if my cat’s snoring is harmful and it’s often associated with being fat. The Mexican guys who came to work on my shower called her fat too.
I would like to thin her up but I don’t know how to do it without her hating me. She’ll tell me when her food and water is empty. Or, more likely when the food she didn’t eat isn’t fresh enough for her. . .
I need to lose some weight too so we could go on a diet together!
Anyway, she is very strong willed and I can’t have her mad at me! Crazy expensive food isn’t the answer! Though i think i have seen weigh management
Help!
Lots of good nutrition info here but that’s not what I was asking – it’s how to deal with her being very pissed off that i’m not giving her as much food. And waking me up at night whining for more, etc. Because of certain circumstances I’m just concerned about her being mad at me. She’s got a personality just like me. . .

Firstly, how old is this cat? If this is an older cat, you are going to have to proceed SLOWLY. If an older cat loses too much weight too rapidly, it can cause a life threatening illness called Hepatic Lipidosis or Fatty Liver Disease. It CAN happen to younger cats too, if they drop weight too fast because of anorexia from an illness. But in older cats, just cutting back the food too quickly can bring it on.
So, you will want to stop free feeding your cat. (And please tell me you change her water every day and not when she runs out?)
If she is drinking alot of water, you need to take her to the vet. She may have developed diabetes.
If she is healthy other than the obesity, start feeding her 4 times a day. DO NOT free feed. Give only what she will clean up in one feeding. If there is any left over when she walks away pick it up and throw it away. I usually feed my cat at 5am, noonish, 5pm and right before I go to bed.
As to your question about her bothering you during the night, I trained my cat when she was a kitten not to wake us up. She would come tearing through the house and leap on the bed full bore and whoever she landed on was collateral damage. I remedied this by catching her in mid air several times and putting her in the bathroom. Her food, water and litterbox were in there and there was a rug she could lay on. We couldn’t hear her yelling and she quickly learned that 3am was NOT the time to play or beg for food. She would also get into things on the dressers and make a general nuisance of herself. I remedied this by throwing a small stuffed animal at her. It was no bigger than the size of my hand, so it wouldn’t hurt her or anything else it hit, but had enough weight that if it did hit her she would know it. Between these two things, it took her about 2 months to learn not to wake us at 3am. She will do it only occasionally now, because she can see the raccoons and possums from the front and back yards going past our bedroom window. The headboard is in front of the window, so we know if she comes running and leaps up looking out the window there is something outside.
I hope this helps. Cats ARE trainable, just not the same as dogs.

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Stop Snoring Tips

Snoring is always a butt of joke for many but for other people it is a serious problem. It does not only concern with the family members but with the person who snores because sometimes it is a sign of a serious medical problem.

Snoring, like all other sounds, is caused by vibrations that cause particles in the air to form sound waves. For example, when we speak, our vocal cords vibrate to form our voice. When our stomach growls (borborygmus), our stomach and intestines vibrate as air and food move through them.

While we are asleep, turbulent airflow can cause the tissues of the nose and throat to vibrate and give rise to snoring. Essentially, snoring is a sound resulting from turbulent airflow that causes tissues to vibrate during sleep.

Snoring is commonly caused by the following reasons:

* Seasonal allergies can make some people’s noses stuffy and cause them to snore.

* Blocked nasal passages or airways (due to a cold or sinus infection) can cause a rattling snore.

* A deviated septum, which is the tissue and cartilage that separates the two nostrils in your nose, may be crooked.

* Enlarged or swollen tonsils or adenoids may cause a person to snore.

* Drinking alcohol can relax the tongue and throat muscles too much, which partially blocks air movement as someone is breathing and can contribute to snoring noises.

* Being overweight can cause narrowing of the air passages.

Good news, snoring has a lot of solutions available in the market and even simple self-help remedies. This includes changing in lifestyle like correcting the sleeping posture, losing weight, avoiding alcoholic beverages and sedatives, do inhale steam before bedtime and using special pillows. You can also try throat sprays, positive airway pressure, palatal stiffening, mouthpiece devices, radio frequency tissue reduction, surgery and hypnosis.

If you fail with the simple solutions mention above, then consult a doctor there might be a suppressed medical condition that you are unaware of. Stop the noise and disturbance you make every night and have happy and healthy sleep.

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How to Silence Snoring Problems

I wanted to take the time to show you how to silent snore problems. If you have this problem than you probably don’t think it is that big of a deal. You’re sound asleep while you do it, so it isn’t that big of a deal. But you have to think of the people around you that have to listen to it. It’s time to think of your wife or husband. It’s time to think of your roommate or children. They’re the ones that have to listen to this night after night. You’re only lowering the quality of their sleep, which puts them in a much more stressed out position. I’m going to show you how to silent snore problems.

When it comes to snoring something specific is happening in your throat area. Essentially your throat is just a tube, but imagine if that tube was squeezed. What would happen? You’d experience much faster speeds with the air going through the tube, which would create wheezing sounds and causing any loose tissue to vibrate. This is essentially what happens when you snore. The real question is what makes your throat constrict? It is actually your jaw and the way it is positioned as you sleep.

Now all you have to do to silent snore problems is use a jaw supporter. It is a really simple device that wraps around your head. It holds up your chin as you sleep and keeps the jaw off your throat. This prevents you throat from constricting in size, so you won’t produce any snoring sounds.

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We sat in silence to hear his snoring hahaaa….

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Is Snoring A Problem For You

Snoring is the noise produced during sleep by vibrations of the soft tissues at the back of your nose and throat. The noise is created by turbulent flow of air through narrowed air passages.

In general and in most cases, snoring has no medical significance unless it keeps you or others from sleeping. However, a more serious problem related to snoring can occur when those same soft tissues block the air passages at the back of the throat while you are sleeping. This interferes with the ability to breathe. This condition is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), and it can directly affect your health.

The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea increases with age. In people aged 30 60 years, 2% of all women and 4% of all men have OSA. Up to 60% of the elderly have the condition.

Most people diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea are obese. Increased neck fat is thought to narrow the airway, making breathing more difficult.
Men are 7-10 times more likely to have obstructive sleep apnea than women. More African Americans have OSA than do whites.

Most people with obstructive sleep apnea are older than 40 years. Weight gain and a decrease in muscle tone occur with aging, and these may play a role in increasing the incidence of OSA.

Sleep apnea is more common in postmenopausal women. Family history and genetics play a role. Polio and muscular dystrophy increase the chance of obstructive sleep apnea, as do other medical conditions such as sinus infections, allergies, colds and nasal tumors, and hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid gland).

Obstructive sleep apnea is an extreme form of snoring in which your upper airway closes while you are asleep, causing an obstruction that prevents you from breathing for a brief period.

The soft tissues of the throat, your soft palate, and the tongue collapse onto the back wall of the upper airway, forming a blockage that prevents air from entering your lungs.

The negative pressure of inhaling pulls harder on your soft tissues, sealing the airway even more tightly. To breathe and get air to your lungs, you must awaken or arouse slightly and create tension in your muscles including the tongue and throat and open the airway.

This process causes a distinctive snorting, startling, and awaking pattern. If you have sleep apnea, you begin snoring, then stop breathing for at least 10 seconds (apnea). The apnea temporarily quiets the snoring, after which you awaken with a large snort. This pattern occurs in 95% of people with sleep apnea.

Each cycle of blockage (apnea) and awakening can last from 20 seconds to 3 minutes, repeating many times throughout the night. Five episodes per hour per night are common. More than 15 episodes per hour per night are the criteria used to diagnosis the condition referred to as sleep apnea.

Some snorers can have anywhere from 100-600 episodes or cycles of sleeping and waking per night. Although people with sleep apnea may be completely unaware of this repeating sleep-snore-apnea-wake pattern, it is very disruptive to normal sleep patterns. Usually, it is the bed partner who is most aware of the condition. Relationships, along with school and job performance, often suffer because of persistent daytime fatigue that develops as a result of continuously disrupted sleep.

Characteristics of obstructive sleep apnea: Movement in the bed when you wake and change position to breathe more easily, excessive daytime sleepiness with napping that often does not fully rest you, mood changes such as anxiety and irritability, and decreased sexual drive and depression.

The repeated cycles of snoring, apnea, and waking that characterize OSA can lead to adverse physical changes and complications such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, heart attacks, strokes, pulmonary hypertension, confusion, loss of memory, or psychiatric disorders and impotence.

If you or someone close to you is not sleeping well because of snoring or sleep apnea, visiting your doctor may be helpful. This should be by appointment, because these are not emergency cases and sometimes extra time is scheduled for the evaluation.

A doctor’s visit may be particularly important if you are falling asleep during normal waking hours, becoming irritable, losing concentration, or becoming depressed.
Many remedies are available over-the-counter in drug stores, but most do not help correct snoring or sleep apnea.

Because you tend to snore more when sleeping on your back, one useful technique is to try to keep from sleeping in that position. One way is to wear a pocket T-shirt backward with a tennis ball in the pocket. You will be less likely to sleep on your back because it is very uncomfortable to sleep on a tennis ball.

Try losing some weight. As little as 10 pounds might make the difference. Avoid alcohol, especially in the 4 hours before going to sleep. Avoid using sedatives and narcotic medications. Alcohol, sedatives, and narcotics cause relaxation of your throat muscles and increase the tendency for airway obstruction related to snoring.

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Will Breathe Right nasal strips help my cats’ snoring?

Probably not; but it could help your snoring!

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