Sleep Apnea And Dust Mites

If your surroundings at bedroom have dust particles, which are invisible, it may aggravate asthma or snoring. That is because the particles enter the lungs through the respiratory tract or to the sinuses through nasal airways, thus triggering breathing difficulties. That is why you may need to consider using air purifiers for filtering particles and airborne dirt so that nighttime breathing becomes relatively easier to you. In fact, doing this is a good hygiene practice, which will lessen snoring and bring about a peaceful sleep.

The purifier’s design will also eventually determine the particle size it can filter from the air. For instance, an air purifier featuring a paper filter would filter the large particles from the atmosphere, but if you have allergies or are living with someone who smokes, consider choosing one featuring a HEPA filter to trap minuscule particles.

Even if you are living in an atmosphere free of smoke, you might still come across pollutants in the air. Thus, it is important to keep the surroundings at home free of dust particles to prevent snoring due to allergies altogether. In addition to that, if smoke or pollen exists at home it might collect plenty of germs and dust which may potentially aggravate respiratory conditions.

House dust mites cause blockages in the respiratory tract. Moreover, the majority of people suffering from hay fever stay allergic to dust mites at home while a few stay allergic to pet danders. Therefore, inhaling dust mite can be dangerous for those having allergies and can worsen the asthma symptoms often referred to as ‘asthma attacks’.

This happens due to mucus tightening up around the airways even as other symptoms of asthma including sneezing, cough and postnasal drip may also worsen. Dust mites at home can be the underlying cause of a runny nose occurring throughout a year in an asthma patient. Stuffy nose can also worsen apnea and snoring and thereby aggravate the asthma symptoms.

However, if you use precautionary measures such as air purifiers, you can reduce the microscopic dirt in the surrounding air and maintain an adequate air quality for better breathing. Reducing the air pollution will lessen the allergy symptoms making breathing at all the more easy to you. Besides that, reducing the swelling of nasal passageway and the stuffy nose caused by the airborne allergies can potentially affect how your snoring lessens.

Sleep Apnea And Obesity

An apnea patient tends to encounter breathing difficulties at night and snores when they reach Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep stage. While allergies, a deviated septum, or a malformed soft tissue in the throat may also disrupt sleep, excess weight and obesity is another known factor to affect the nighttime breathing process. Many of us know that obesity affects human metabolism and may create snoring. However, the overweight condition may also trigger a sleep disorder like sleep apnea.

The excessive tissue around the neck and loss of muscle tone in the upper airway of the throat are what induces snoring in obese people. That is why apnea researchers suggest weight reduction and improving better muscle tone by exercising regularly as a means to reduce obesity and chances of recurring apnea episodes at night.

An eight-hour nighttime sleep is ideal normally, but an apnea patient may encounter overnight fatigue and may sleep during the day as well. However, if you couple the positional therapy with daily exercises and diet, you can sleep better and on the right time. An individual, who finds it tough to reduce weight and encounters difficulties in changing the diet, tends to choose alternative remedies for sleep apnea like changing the sleep position or using an anti snoring device. Yet again, the quality of nighttime sleep will determine the eating habits and diet in an obese person.

Some apnea patients tend to snore when they sleep on the back also known as the supine position. The position may cause sleep apnea episodes especially in the REM state. An ideal positional therapy deals with changing the supine position to sleeping on left or right side. This will open up the upper airway in the throat, will stop snoring and improves the sleep in obese people. However, if you have mild to moderate obtrusive sleep apnea, then sleeping on the stomach (prone position) may reduce snoring and may improve the sleep patterns to left side sleeping.

One of the drawbacks of sleeping in the prone position is that people tend to encounter a sour neck and even back pain in the morning. In such cases, raising the head by six inches or so with a stop snoring pillow can be tried to address the condition and improve sleep with no pain. A mouthpiece for sleep apnea will also cure snoring just like the positional therapy. If you are obese, needless to say, exercising is a must alongside trying alternate remedies.