How can Kent keep quiet at night for stop snoring week?

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We spoke to locals in Rochester and Dr Sandip Banerjee to find out more on The Kent Morning Show.

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00:00I don't think I snore but I'm told I snore.

00:02Yes I do snore when I'm very tired but that's when other people have told me

00:08and then other times I don't snore at all.

00:11Not anymore.

00:12Uh, yeah. Sometimes.

00:14I don't know. My mom snores and my girlfriend snores

00:18and we've tried some things but the snoring just doesn't stop.

00:21No. I'm looking at... I don't snore do I? No.

00:26Uh, not that I know of. I know my boyfriend does though.

00:30Because I don't wake myself up with the snoring so and I don't have anyone

00:34nudging me in the back and sort of roll over.

00:37So I haven't tried anything and I know my husband, he passed away last summer

00:45but he was a very very bad snorer and it's okay so you know he got the elbow in the back

00:52to roll over and that was his way of trying... me trying to stop him from snoring

00:58but never tried any of the kind of nose um sort of clips and things like that that you see advertised.

01:04I don't think uh some methods work. I think it's the money making scheme.

01:10So I had tonsillitis and it was causing sleep apnea so the tonsils was taken out.

01:16Go right of it. Yeah nice little strips. So my mom has the actual mask kind of like a sleep apnea mask

01:25but it's for snoring and then she's also tried like the nose strips that kind of hold your nose

01:31open a little bit more but that's not working and trying to tell them stop snoring doesn't seem to work

01:38either um sleeping on their front or lying on their side um it's my dad he snores very badly

01:46if he's laying on his back it's a problem so he tries to sleep on his front.

01:51Yeah I think so um they used like um like nasal strike like things and um bits and pieces yeah I

01:59think like a spray thing as well. It is expected that roughly 40 percent of adults um males and females

02:06here in the UK snore. So it is fairly common um a third of them would also have a condition called

02:12a sleep apnea. Now obviously we are more concerned about sleep apnea because that is associated with

02:18other health you know health scares. But the biggest myth that I've heard about snoring is that

02:25most individuals tell me they snore from their nose but actually snoring does not occur over there.

02:30It technically occurs because of a partial collapse of your upper airways which are right behind your

02:37tongue and this tends to happen only when you sleep and and because it's of a partial collapse of the

02:44upper airway it tends to be worse when you're lying on your back. So as you've heard in some of the videos

02:50they mentioned asking their partners to sleep on the side which resulted in some improvement.

02:55But there are various reasons for that and and obviously we can discuss those in detail.

03:01Yeah and a big problem with snoring you see it's sort of a bit of a domestic between partners and

03:07couples that I can I had a terrible sleep last night because you were snoring they might have been

03:12sleeping soundly but it was the partner that suffered. So what are some of those sort of longer

03:16term impacts that snoring can actually have not just the actual snoring itself but the lack of sleep

03:22from it? That's right so the vast majority of people who snore may not have any health care

03:29problems. The main issue occurs in those individuals where the the airway obstructs to a significant

03:37degree which results in your sleep being disrupted even though people would be sleeping through the

03:42night their brain is having to work fairly hard to keep the breathing going through the night and

03:48that is what can lead to issues in the long term. We know individuals who have high blood pressure,

03:55diabetes, heart diseases, heart failure, 50% of them would have sleep apnoea. So my advice would be

04:02that if your partner or you are snoring and have been told that you may be stopping breathing at times

04:11then seeking medical help or advice would be would be very helpful. Is it bad if we snore? Is it more

04:18is it a worry that if I if I do snore at night should I actually be worried about my health?

04:23So as as I just mentioned if you just snore in itself it's not a health care scare but if you

04:31have episodes where your breathing reduces significantly whereby you're not taking in enough oxygen or air into

04:38your lungs that can be associated with health issues such as hypertension, diabetes, palpitations

04:47and it's it's important to seek help at that stage.

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