Can my partner's snoring affect my health?
Your partner's snoring can affect your health in that it can keep you awake, which negatively impacts the quantity and quality of your sleep. Watch Ask the Experts sleep expert Michael Breus, PhD, share some tips on quieting your partner's snoring.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] Your partner's snoring can absolutely affect your health. First of all, we know that if you're lying next to a snoring bed partner, you can
be losing up to an hour's worth of sleep a night. And that has a lot to do with the quantity of sleep that you're getting. But not only that, but listening to a snoring
bed partner can keep you awake or wake you up in the middle of the night. And that can affect your quality sleep.
Here are a few quick tips on what to do if you've got a snoring bed partner. I always tell people decongest for better rest.
So any type of nasal congestion that might be going on can certainly have a major effect on that snorer's snoring.
So you want to try antihistamines, maybe, at night, or some type of a saline wash like a neti pot to get all the stuff out of your sinuses.
That will certainly help open up that area, reduce that snoring. Between a 5% and a 10% weight loss will absolutely
help with snoring. And that doesn't-- that's not a lot of weight. So a lot of times people think, oh, I've got to lose a ton of weight in order to make this happen.
You really don't, just somewhere between 5% and 10%. Final tip, which is a really easy one, is, take a tennis ball. Put it inside the leg of a pair of pantyhose.
Clip the end, and then tie it to the back of the snorer's pajamas. This forces the snorer to sleep on their side
because they can't lie on their back on top of the tennis ball. And that can help quite a bit because it takes gravity out of the equation, opening up the airway
and making for better rest. [AUDIO LOGO]
sleep disorders
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