Snoring is not only peculiar to men and women; it can be a big problem for someone who is sleeping with someone close, and sometimes very dangerous for snoring. There are many ways to stop snoring Seven simple ways to stop snoring - sleep should be quiet And start better with the most friendly, home remedies.

What will help

• Do not sleep on your back. Many or even most of those who suffer from snoring (or rather torturing them to others), and most often the loudest snore when sleeping on your back. To do this, you can try to wear a wide belt at night and put back between the belt and a tennis ball. This will cause you to roll over on its side every time when you want to roll back. If a person who sleeps next to you snores badly, try to turn it on its side or move his pillow so he turned himself. Do not be afraid to wake him - if he does not wake up on their own snoring, then slept quite soundly. Furthermore, all sleep need, not only to one who snores.
• Lose weight. Overweight people snore are more likely than those with normal weight. The fact that they have on the chin and neck more than adipose tissue; when a person relaxes during sleep, they begin to put pressure on the airways, causing a person snores.
• Changing dietary habits. Snoring can be caused by allergic reactions Allergic reactions: how to understand why you tickle in the throat   throat and nasal passages. Such reactions can be caused by food, such as chocolate, cakes, spicy dishes, dairy products.
• Do not eat before going to bed. Ideally, the last meal should be three or four hours before you go to sleep. If you really want a snack after dinner, eat an apple, a pear, or a cup of yogurt. Full stomach presses on the diaphragm and, thus, increases snoring.
• Do not drink alcohol before going to bed. Alcohol relaxes the muscles and tissues, hindering the movement of air through the airway than usual.

There are other ways to stop snoring. Typically, they are used when a person has a serious problem with the respiratory tract than snoring.

Other ways to get rid of snoring

Uvulopalatofaringoplastika (UPPP). During this procedure, do lift the soft palate - the very fabric that relaxing during sleep Dreams: how to understand our dreams It causes snoring.

Laser uvulopalatofaringoplastika - it does not lift, and the removal of the soft palate and, sometimes, the uvula. If the procedure is successful, the patient may be on the same day to go home.

Somnoplastika - is a relatively new procedure to deal with snoring in which the sky is not affected by low radio frequencies, and it formed scars. As the scar tissue is more dense and supple than regular fabric sky after somnoplastiki patients tend to stop snoring.

Protriptyline, according to some, it is an effective treatment against snoring. However, because of numerous side effects of surgery, it is generally preferred.

Interventional pulmonology - a relatively new field of pulmonology. It uses endoscopy and other special procedures to diagnose and treat diseases of the lungs and airways. These procedures may carry a pulmonologist, passed the appropriate additional training. The surgery is sometimes also used the procedures related to the field of interventional pulmonology.

Interventional pulmonology procedures

• Flexible bronchoscopy Bronchoscopy - unpleasant but necessary . Bronchoscopy - is the most common procedure, interventional pulmonology Pulmonology - everything you wanted to know about respiratory diseases . During bronchoscopy, the doctor inserts through the patient's mouth or nose into the windpipe flexible endoscopes (bronchoscope), which is at the end of the camera and lighting. The image inside the respiratory tract is transmitted to the monitor.
• Bronchoscope hollow on the inside, and at its end has a hole through which a physician introduces thin if necessary tools. With these tools, he can do some diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
• Bronchoalveolar lavage - a procedure that is performed during bronchoscopy. Through the bronchoscope to one of the segments easily enter the sterile liquid. Then it is pumped and sent to a laboratory for analysis. Bronchoalveolar lavage is used to diagnose infections, cancer, various disorders causing bleeding.
• Biopsy of lung or lymph nodes. During bronchoscopy physician may produce a small amount of the fence or the lung tissue located in the same region of the lymph node. It uses a thin needle or forceps are introduced through the bronchoscope. With biopsy can detect cancer, infections, sarcoidosis Sarcoidosis - how to protect themselves?   and other diseases.
• Patients with lung cancer Lung cancer - prevention is better than cure   a biopsy will help to ascertain the beginning of the spread of cancer to the lymph nodes. This allows you to do less invasive and timely treatments.
• Stenting the airway. Cancer in the later stages and some other violations can lead to compression of the airway, resulting in shortness of breath, cough, or pneumonia. Using a bronchoscope into the narrowed area of ​​the respiratory tract are administered stent is essentially a grid that will keep the airway open, relieve symptoms caused by their compression.
• Bronchiectasis. The narrowed portion bronchus balloon is introduced, which is then filled with water. The ball is expanding at the same time expanding the bronchial tubes. This procedure is often preceded by stenting the airway.
• Rigid bronchoscopy. This procedure is performed using a bronchoscope metal which is introduced into the trachea of ​​the person. Large diameter rigid bronchoscopy allows the doctor to use a more sophisticated surgical techniques, than is possible with flexible bronchoscopy. Rigid bronchoscopy performed under general anesthesia.
• Removal of foreign body. To do this in interventional pulmonology also used bronchoscopy - flexible or rigid, depending on each case.
• Plevroskopiya used to diagnose a variety of disorders related to the pleura - the shell of the lungs. This procedure allows to see some tissues outside the lung, using bronchoscopy impossible. During the procedure, through a small incision in the chest wall plevroskop administered (variation of the endoscope), which can be used for both diagnosis and treatment.
• Thoracentesis. To bring the liquid that has accumulated around the lungs, the doctor inserts in the chest wall thin needle and catheter. Excess fluid is evacuated, after which the catheter is removed.
• Pleurodesis is used for recurrent pleural effusion (fluid retention around the lungs). The chest cavity through a small incision injected plastic tube around the lungs and then sprayed a chemical irritant. Eventually irritated pleura firmly attach to the chest wall and the liquid will cease to accumulate around the lungs.
• Pleural Catheter - alternative to pleurodesis in the treatment of pleural effusion. Using minimally invasive surgical procedure a catheter placed under the skin, the tip of which emerges into the chest cavity. In the future, people will be able to pump himself accumulating around the lungs pleural fluid using a special sterile devices.
• Bronchial thermoplastic - a procedure that in interventional pulmonology used for the treatment of severe asthma that can not be controlled with medication. During bronchoscopy, the doctor inserts into the airways hot probe. Heat destroys the smooth muscle layer, which contribute to the symptoms of asthma.

Diagnostics in interventional pulmonology

Due to diagnostic procedures that offers interventional pulmonology, you can avoid the more invasive surgical procedures. For example, before the interventional pulmonology for biopsy of lymph nodes in the chest operation required to the chest wall.

Endobronchial ultrasound. The ultrasound probe on the end of a bronchoscope allows the physician to biopsy lymph nodes with greater accuracy. In the capable hands of endobronchial ultrasound significantly increases the probability of setting the correct diagnosis.

Electromagnetic navigation bronchoscopy - a modern system that bronchoscope further than is possible using conventional bronchoscopy. This system allows a biopsy in inaccessible areas of the lungs, to which access otherwise require more invasive procedure.

Risks and Limitations

Generally, interventional pulmonology associated with minimal risk to the patient. However, in rare cases, it can cause the procedure the following complications:

• Pneumothorax;
• Bleeding;
• Excessive sedation, which may lead to the need for a temporary connection to the extracorporeal support, pneumonia, and other problems.

Interventional pulmonology procedure is generally safer and requires less prolonged recovery period, as compared with the surgical procedures. However, surgery remains the best option for the treatment of many lung diseases.