My Husband Snores What Can I Do
Your Health Your Husband’s Health and Snoring
Snoring is not, in and of itself, a health condition. However, people who snore often have other risk factors. We’ve underlined the relationship between obesity and snoring, but snoring is also associated with an increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure.
Pregnant women who begin snoring may be giving off signs of prenatal high blood pressure and should be sure to have it monitored. Children who snore may have issues with sinuses, tonsils, adenoids, or sleep disturbances. Snoring in children has been correlated with lower intelligence scores and increases in behavioral difficulties.
There are many things you can do to treat snoring problems. For some people it requires a more drastic lifestyle change than others, but several things you can do to help stop snoring include:
• Sleeping on your left side.
• Losing weight.
• Reducing your consumption of alcohol.
• Quitting or reducing the amount of cigarettes you smoke.
• Elevating your head while you sleep.
If you are not concerned about your husband’s health because of his snoring, you may need to worry about your health. Snoring can keep you from sleeping as deeply and peacefully as you should, interrupting your sleep cycles and reducing your oxygen. It can leave you feeling groggy and unclear throughout the next day.
The effect on a spouse, roommate, or partner can often be worse. Not only are they continually awakened by the sound of snoring, but studies have shown that the level of stress created on the spouse of a snorer has a very negative impact on their health.
While most couples enjoy the prospect of cuddling up and going to sleep together, when a person has a snoring partner it can be a nightmare.
According to research, more than 30% of couples are dramatically affected by the snoring of one of the partners, resulting in anger, stress, arguing, and even separate sleeping arrangements.
Because it’s not the snoring itself that can cause health concerns but the lack of sleep it causes, whatever health risks you might be exposed to by being a snoring sleeper may also affect your spouse.
Taking whatever actions you can to improve your snoring will help you both.

