8 Natural Remedies To Get Rid Of Snoring

Everyone knows what snoring is, whether because you yourself do it, your partner, a friend, the overplayed grandpa snores on TV. What most people do not know is what causes it. Whatever the cause, these snoring home remedies can help to prevent you from snoring again.

The main thing behind snoring is that airflow- in some way- is troubled or slowed down. Whether it be that your nose is clogged, or your tongue does odd things in your sleep, the tissue around your nose or throat vibrate, and this is what makes you snore.

# Sleep on Your Side

This can be a difficult thing to keep yourself doing in your sleep, but if you try sleeping on a couch of some sort and find that it helps, there is a trick so that you do not keep rolling onto your back.

Sew a sock to the back of a nightshirt and put a tennis ball in there. As weird as it sounds, the tennis ball in the sock makes it uncomfortable to lay on your back so you have to roll back onto your side to be comfy.

Quick note: you should consider switching the side you sleep on everyone night or every other night so that your shoulders and hips do not get sore from the pressure.

# Elevate Your Head

One cause of snoring is your tongue being in the wrong position, right? Well, there is a solution for even that. You can either make your own stack of pillows or find a way to elevate your head or there are pillows you can buy that are made especially to help with snoring. Elevating your head can help because it helps to keep your jaw and tongue forward so that your tongue cannot block your airways.

# Unstuffing Your Nose

Having stuffy nose because of a cold or allergies is the worst and it can even make you snore. To unstuff your nose, you can try over the counter allergy pills (these help with the congestion of colds, not just allergies), neti pots, nasal sprays, or there are even these little strips that look sort of like band-aids that you put across your nose before bed and they help you to breath.

# Lose Weight

Another cause of snoring was being overweight. The easiest way to rid yourself of this cause is to lose the extra weight. Exercise, go on a diet program. You should, however, talk to your doctor if you are considering going on a diet as they can help you know a healthy weight and give you help and support with it.

# Moist Air

Breathing dry air can swell your nasal cavity and tissues. One of the best ways to add moisture to air is to use a humidifier.

# Avoid Alcohol and Sedatives

Both of these can make your snoring worse before they relax the muscles in your throat a little too much. When they get to relax, it makes it easier for them to be moved around by air that you inhale and exhale. If you are on a prescribed sleeping pill or a medication that can make you drowsy, talk to your doctor if you think it might be making your snoring worse.

# Stop Smoking

Smoking is a hard habit to kick, but it can be done. Smoking causes so many different kinds of cancer on top of making it hard to breath when you try to sleep. If you stop smoking, most studies show that there are a milestone of your body working on rebuilding itself shortly after you stop smoking.

# Dilator

This odd little contraption might look a bit scary at first, but it can help you breathe better at night. Dilators are also called snoring clips or nose vents. This small clip slides into your nose and holds your nostrils open so that air can come and go more easily. You do not have fear the little supports being left behind because there is a little loop that catches on the barrier between your nostrils.