Written By: Debjani Arora | Published : April 20, 2018 4:46 PM IST
If you snore, you could be at risk of heart disease © Shutterstock
If your partner or any other family members have been complaining about your snoring for too long, take this piece of information about yourself seriously and get help because snoring isn t a condition that you can ignore or sleep over. It makes you prone and susceptible to numerous health crises and increases your chances of suffering from high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, obesity, diabetes, heart failure, irregular heartbeats, etc. There are both surgical and non-surgical ways to treat snoring. However, before reaching that point one can also try doing some simple exercises at home to improve the situation. Here are reasons why you should take your snoring seriously.
Snoring is a condition where there is some obstruction in the nose, mouth, throat that blocks breathing while sleeping producing a soft or loud unpleasant sound. It is a sign or first alarm of OSA (obstructive sleep apnoea).
Here Dr Dillon Dsouza, a Mumbai based Consultant ENT and Head and Neck surgeon attached to Jaslok Hospital and Desa hospital suggests some simple exercises to counter the problem of snoring:
These exercises look simple but are tried and tested by people who promise that they deliver results.
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