How to Stop Snoring While Sleeping

Video Transcript

"Hello. My name is Dr. Robert Hernandez. I'm a psychologist in Miami, Florida, and I'm president and owner of Lafafalu Retreat House. Have you ever woken up to find your partner sleeping on the sofa or maybe sleeping in another room? That gives you an alert that you've been snoring very loudly, and it interrupts their sleep, so what do you do? One of the things that I've worked with couples in couple therapy is the partner that is awake and they can hear you snore, there is a couple of things they can do. They could turn you to the side, because once again most of the snoring is caused by your airway being obstructed. If they turn you to your side, then that usually causes the tongue muscle to relax and stay away from the airway, and that also reduces that. The other thing that they could do is make sure that when they do turn you to the side, put a pillow in between the legs of the person that's snoring. That also will keep them in that position for a longer length of time. Waking the person up to tell them they're snoring really does little to improve them, because the person will be bothered that they're woken up, and they'll go back to sleeping, and the snoring will begin all over."