Snoring Is A TOUGH Problem
Chronic, loud, non-apnea snoring isn't easy to stop. If it was, would you still be snoring? There are NO cures, no shortcuts. Not even the latest (and expensive) snoring surgery can honestly promise that you will never snore again. If you want the quiet night's sleep you need to be healthy and happy, you have to reduce the snoring where it starts.
For more than 85% of all non-apnea snorers, this means closing the open mouth. That's why we urge you to learn about your snoring: what causes it, what can help reduce it, what works for you. And see your doctor to make sure that you don't have sleep apnea. Isn't that just common sense?
Close Your Mouth, Avoid Sleep Apnea?
Possibly. The findings from a multi-year study of chronic snorers diagnosed with OSA seem to indicate that a major reason many people have this disorder may simply be due to the fact that they can't breathe properly through their nose during sleep. This forces them to breathe through their open mouth, and that may be a factor in the development of some types of apnea.
But, see your doctor if you have the symptoms of sleep apnea.
What could this mean for you? If you keep your mouth closed while you sleep and breathe properly through your nose, you may not develop some kinds of sleep apnea. But, we must caution you - these studies are new. Much more study must be done to confirm or disprove the findings. ONLY your doctor can diagnose or treat sleep apnea.
OSA & Nasal Breathing Studies
European and American researchers recently discovered that fixing the nasal obstructions or chronic nasal congestion that many OSA patients suffer from actually helped reduce or even eliminate OSA in many cases. While much more research is needed before any definitive conclusion can be drawn, this really is just a common sense discovery, isn't it? We humans were designed to breathe through our noses, not the mouth.
But see your doctor for more information.
You may snore because you breathe through your open mouth. Since you can't breathe easily and properly through your nose, you're probably going to keep on snoring until you get the nose problem fixed. If your loud snoring is due to your mouth falling open during sleep (like more than 85% of non-apnea snorers, according to the U.S. Government) and you don't have OSA, the SnorEnder really can help stop your snoring.
Sleep apnea is not something that can be self-treated, and the SnorEnder is not intended to offer any relief for this potentially life-threatening sleep disorder. Only FDA-approved apnea devices should be used, and only under your doctor's care.
Web page last modified on: 08/14/2008