Help, how do you stop someone snoring?

Answer 1

Snoring is not a joke, and it's not just a nuisance.

Snoring is often a symptom of a serious disorder called sleep apnea. This can damage your heart and even kill you. You need to go to a sleep clinic without delay - ask your doctor to refer you.

In most cases apnea can be 100% eliminated by the use of a night breathing machine called a CPAP. It might take a night or two to get used to it, but then you will not only not snore AT ALL anymore, you will feel much better during the day, too.

Please do not delay in seeing a sleep specialist - it's very important! Contrary to what many people believe, you do NOT have to be overweight to have sleep apnea.

Answer 2

Snoring is a noise produced when an individual breathes during sleep, which in turn causes vibration of the soft palate and uvula (that thing that hangs down in the back of the throat).

Men are hit with more bouts of disruptive snoring than women.

Reduce the risk of snoring

Before anyone undergoes treatment for snoring, lifestyle factors should be addressed as these are often a major contributory factor.

Weight

Excessive weight brought about by laziness or too many rich foods is probably the leading factoring snoring. Bed partners often note that the larger their snoring spouse becomes, the louder the snoring and the more often they hear snoring pauses followed by snorts and a resumption of breathing.

Indeed, in a large percentage of patients, dropping down to an ideal weight has stopped the snoring altogether.

Smoking

Smoking has numerous undesirable effects on the body – including obstructions to the airway which cigarette smoking causes: swelling of the mucous membrane in the nose, swelling of the tissue in the throat, and blockage of the small vessels in the lungs.

Add this to the list of reasons why you should quit.

Alcohol

The partial collapse of the airway is the immediate cause of snoring. Alcohol causes too great a relaxation of the airway during sleep.

This, and other effects of alcohol on the body, means that it can either cause or greatly contribute to the development of loud snoring.

Organisation of sleep

There are two periods of sleep which are especially vulnerable to the development of unstable breathing.

These are Stage 1 sleep, which should only occur when a person is first falling asleep but can occur many times during the night if sleep is poor; and REM sleep, which is the time when dreaming most frequently occurs.

If a person has very unbalanced sleeping habits during the week, it can result in the development of very significant respiratory instability during sleep. It's that simple: unstable sleeping patterns lead to unstable breathing.

Therefore, all you need to do is regulate your sleep by getting at least 7.5 hours of it per night. Sometimes, this is all that is required.

Is it a medical problem?

Anything that can lead to a blockage potentially plays a role in the development of snoring, for example, nasal problems or something blocking the throat - large tonsils, excessive amounts of fatty tissue, and at times, the enlargement of some of the complex tissue at the back of the throat.

Try a change of lifestyle first. If that hasn’t worked for you, it might be wise to visit your doctor as a last resort and take his advice.

Answer 3

a snore is a sign of an upper airway or nasal obstruction, so you need to find out the sight of obstruction. is the snore coming completely from a nasal obstruction, or is it an upper airway obstruction. have an overnight oximetry done to find out if your oxygen saturations are dropping. if there is a sawtoothing pattern in your oxygen sats, further investigation should be done, like a formal sleep study. investigate sleep disorders at the american academy of sleep medicine, or the association of polysomnographic technologists website.

Answer 4

Well Richard has given you a good answer....My boyfriend snores...I use earplugs now! Wonderfull!! But what has been said about the alcohol and the being overweight is all true...so get them to lose weight and cut down on the drink...good luck!

Answer 5

There are many methods and there are products out there too stop it. I can't explain much since I've never had the problem but look around or maybe someone on here can recommend something.

Answer 6

Hold there nose. They'll probably wake up, but at least that'll stop the snoring

Answer 7

Billy Connolloy had this problem (aparently). He says best way is to sleep with a shirt on back to front & put a tennis ball or something like it in the top pocket so its too uncomfortable to sleep on your back. Eventually they'll get used to it.

Better than spending all that money on "miracle cures".

Answer 8

My college roommate used to just yell my name whenever I would snore, and I would just roll over. It worked!

Answer 9

What I do to my husband is jiggle the bed a couple of times. If that doesn't work I take my fingers and softly run them down his face from forehead to chin. That startles him and he stops. Good luck.

Answer 10

Personally I like the old jab in the ribs method.

Alternatively I like to hold my husbands nose firmly between my thumb and forefinger!

Or shout 'SHUT UP!!!'