February 22, 2010

Sleep Apnea and Snoring – Benefits of a Snoring Chin Strap

Is your mouth dry in the morning? Are you also a snorer? These issues are often linked, and you wife or husband may well listen to you for much of the night. The debilitating tiredness caused by lack of sleep is a real problem for the partners of snorers. I cured my snoring using a cheap device called a ’snoring chin strap’

Is there a Solution?

There are a variety of devices that can possibly help with snoring conditions. An Anti Snoring Device is worn in the mouth to keep the airway clear, and check the vibrating of soft tissues which leads to snoring. Another valuable gadget, which is much less invasive but may well alleviate your snoring is the Snoring Chin Strap. This is a very simple device that is worn over the head, with a cradle that goes under the jaw and holds the mouth closed at night. Now, if you have a stuffy nose or structural problem, you need to get that sorted out, and a sleep apnea mouthpiece may well serve you better. But for many, mouth breathing has become a habit, and the chin strap for snoring can instantly resolve this condition by ensuring you breath through your nose at nighttime.

Okay, the snoring chin strap looks a little peculiar when worn, but the benefits greatly outweigh that minor disadvantage. You getting a good nights sleep without being continuously kicked is a genuine benefit. Your partner will value it too.

Using snoring chin straps can in fact offer additional benefits that just a snoring treatment. It is possible that you may have Sleep Apnea which is a more serious condition in which ‘episodes’ of breath holding take place whilst asleep, the sleeper commonly stops breathing for 10 seconds or more. This condition can cause some more serious health issues, and if you are concerned about it, you really should call your general practitioner and consider having a sleep test to confirm the condition. The upside is that in some cases, it could be a learned condition which can be corrected. There are also sleep apnea mouthpiece devices which can help.

The great advantage of chin straps for snoring is that they teach you (although you are asleep) to inhale through your nose. Mouth breathers tend to get a narrowing of the airway, which will cause the soft mouth and throat tissues to vibrate, causing a snore. The snoring chin strap will keep the mouth closed and the jaw in a position that assists in keeping that airway open.

If you wear the ’stop snoring chin strap’ for a while, consider trying the odd night without it to see if you have automatically learnt to breath through your nose at night. A partner will be able to advise you. If not, keep using it and the time will come when it is no longer required. I found it only took me a few weeks before I was transformed from a mouth breather to a nose breather, and more significantly, from a snorer to a non-snorer.

Real Solutions

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