Snoring and Sleep Apnea - A Snoring Chin Strap Might Help
Does your mouth feel dry in the morning when you wake? Do you snore? The issues can be inter-related, and many snorers partners suffer from sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep can be an issue for both snorers and partners, but a simple device called a snoring chin strap may assist.
Is there a Solution?
There are a choice of devices that could possibly help with snoring conditions. An Anti Snoring Device is worn in the mouth to keep the airway clear, and prevent the vibration of soft tissues which causes snoring. Another useful device, which is significantly less invasive but may well treat your snoring is the Snoring Chin Strap. This is a very straightforward device which is worn over the head, with a cradle that goes under the jaw and holds the mouth closed at nighttime. 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 people, mouth breathing has become a habit, and the chin strap for snoring can instantaneously resolve this condition by making sure you breath through your nose at nighttime.
Okay, the snoring chin strap looks a little peculiar when worn, but the benefits far outweigh that minor disadvantage. You getting a great nights sleep without being continuously kicked is a real benefit. Your companion will value it too.
Wearing snoring chin straps can in fact offer additional benefits that just a snoring cure. 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 ten seconds or more. This condition can cause some more severe health conditions, and if you are worried about it, you really should contact your doctor and consider having a sleep investigation to verify the condition. The upside is that in some cases, it can be a learned condition which may be able to be corrected. There are also sleep apnea mouthpiece devices which can help.
The fantastic benefit 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 wearing it and the time will come when it is no longer needed. I found it only took me a few weeks before I was modified from a mouth breather to a nose breather, and more significantly, from a snorer to a non-snorer.
