cameroon gce advanced level professional English 3
cameroon gce advanced level professional English 3
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SNORING
The loudest snor ever recorded so far have been 80 decibles which is equivalent to 747 Boeing plane
taking off or the sound of a desel bus at close range. Snoring can be more than just annoying leading to marital
discort and having fiscal and sychological sight effects such as personality change, sexual disfunction,
intellectual deterioration and hypertensions. snoring can sometimes be the first symptoms or the earliest stage
of a serious respiratory disorder called apnea, in wish, the sleeper stops breathing for ten second or more in
episodes that occure many times an hour.
Snoring which in most cases gets progressively worst with age has selfcare and high-technological
remedies, if one visit a sleep clinic for advise. More than 300 snoring cases are registered in US, patente and
trademark office. To begin with snoring can be avoided by lossing weight if you are over-weight, this is
beleived by doctors from the sleep disorder centre in the university Medical School-Baltimore. Too much
weight gain can also course hypertension.
Medication is also beleived to contribute to snoring, expecially those that have to do with the central
nervous system. Avoiding depressants and alchohol within two hours of going to bed is a remedy to snoring.
Medications are trouble causers as well as trouble-shooters.
Sometimes the type of beds, that is a matress and pillow also contribute in our snoring habits. By putting a
break or too under the forward bed post to elievate the head helps the airway open, thereby stoping this
disorder.
Another self-care remedy are a cervical caller usually priscribed for people with sprained neck. When
these caller is warn it keeps the chin up and the wind pipe open and snoring is prevented.
The sleeping position of a snorer also matters i.e. those who sleep on their backs snores a lot. This
problem can be tackle by sewing a marble into a pocket on the back of a pyjama to cause the person sleep on
the side or stomach.
Scientists are not sleeping as they continuously research to come up with a solution to snoring. This may
be expensive but it helps. For this a pressurized air true a nose mask feeding the airways is a preventable major.
The nose mask reduce the average number of snores per knight from 1000-23. Is this not a solution.
Do you know what is uvulopalatopharngoplasty (UPPP)? It is a surgical treatment of choice for apnea
i.e. it is a “facelift for the throat” whereby snoring is discontinued by a surgical removal of the estra tissue
blocking the airway. UPPP was first meant for the treatment of sleep apnea. We can now go to bed and get up
rich, wiser and healthier than before. Were there is a wheel therefore there is a way, it is said
Source: ways of life by: WC Lesley
N.B adapted for use
