Hotel Launches "Anti-Snoring Room"

Crowne Plaza is the first hotel chain to offer what it describes as "snore absorption rooms." These rooms are ostensibly the result of research that has been done on the impact of snoring on UK couples' snoring habits. According to the research, snorers' cosleepers lose between one and five hours of sleep a night due to their partners' sleep disordered breathing. A similar proportion also reports that their vacations are ruined by snoring, so anti-snoring rooms make sense for the satisfaction of a hotel's clients.

Supposedly, the snore absorption rooms use "proven" technology to reduce the noise of a snorer's breathing. This technology includes:

• · Sound proofing on walls to absorb and deflect the sound of snoring
• · Sound-absorbing headboards that supplement the sound absorption of the walls
• · An anti-snoring bed wedge that encourages side-sleeping or upright sleeping, which can stop the sound created by positional snorers
• · An anti-snoring pillow which uses "rare" neodymium magnets that open the airways and stiffens the upper palate to reduce sound
• · A white sound machine that drowns out snoring

There is no doubt that this is a problem that needs a solution, but the one offered by Crowne Plaza is dubious. At best, their solution simply masks the problem, and some of the technologies they propose are effective only for a limited number of people, if at all.

Instead, people who want to ensure that snoring will never ruin another vacation should seek out an effective, comfortable, portable snoring solution. The solution that best meets these criteria is an oral appliance. An oral appliance is not only a convenient solution to snoring that travelers can easily be transported when on vacation, it can also be used to treat the serious condition that snoring may signal: obstructive sleep apnea.

If you want to learn how you can reduce or eliminate your snoring for every vacation, please contact a local sleep dentist today to be evaluated for an oral appliance.

Saving Marriages: Elimination of Snoring and Sleep Apnea Can Improve Marriages Inside and Outside the Bedroom

Snoring is often considered funny ,but it can seriously disrupt otherwise good marriages. The spouses of snorers lose up to 15% of their sleep according to Mayo Clinic. This can lead to shortened tempers, weight gain, daytime sleepiness and buried anger and hostility for your spouse. Frequently, it leads to one of the partners leaving the marriage bed on search of quiet.

Sleep Apnea, is usually characterized by snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness but other symptoms can be devastating to marriage tranquility. Communication breakdown is frequent due to short term memory loss associated with untreated sleep apnea. Motor vehicle accidents, personality changes and trouble at work are also frequently seen in patients with sleep apnea.

Of course there are many medical problems associated with sleep apnea and snoring but often the damage to interpersonal relationships can be the most damaging. There is frequently hostility directed toward the patient who refuses treatment.

The primary reason patients refuse treatment is the the "HATE CPAP!". Studies have shown that 60 % of patients abandon CPAP. Not wanting to wear CPAP is also a major reason that patients avoid being evaluated for sleep apnea. This avoidance can lead to heart attacks, strokes and other serious medical consequences.

It is vital that sleep apnea be treated effectively but it does not matter if the effective treatment is CPAP, BiPAP, and Oral appliance or surgery.