Symptoms:
Wheezing, sighing noises made through the mouth while a person is sleeping. It drives everyone else to distraction, except the one making the noise. The tissue in the upper airway in the back of the throat relaxes during sleep, and breathing in causes it to vibrate.

Cause:
Snoring generally occurs while sleeping on the back. The mouth falls open and the singing begins.

Men snore much more often (71% of men) than women (51% of women). Most snorers are middle-aged, overweight men.

Treatment:
• Sleep on your side; not on your back. One method which works fine is to sew a tennis ball into the middle of the back of your pajamas. When you roll onto it in your sleep, you will quickly roll off again—and there will be no snoring.

• Pillows tend to elevate your head and increase snoring.

• Put blocks under the front legs of your bed, and elevate the entire upper part of your body. This will reduce snoring.

• Losing weight tends to lessen the snoring. The more overweight a person is, the more likely he or she will snore.

• Alcoholic drinkers and smokers tend to snore more than other people. Sleeping pills also increase it.

• Snoring can develop as a result of allergies, during or following hay fever time, or after colds.

• Tell your spouse to shake you when you snore. That will wake you enough that you will stop.

• Buy your spouse ear plugs to wear at night.