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Snoring needn’t be boring
My grandmother is around 90 and is perfectly healthy — no diabetes, no high blood-pressure and no heart disease. She snores so loudly that the whole room and every object in it vibrates violently. One night, out of curiosity, I asked her the secret of her good health. She smiled, and in a moment, started snoring! I have come across people who are ‘blessed’ with the habit of snoring in any posture — sitting, lying or leaning on a table. In our government offices, nobody dares disturb a snoring officer or a babu. Looking back, I still
remember the pretty face of my class teacher who used to snore in the
class everyday. The class always began with dictation. No talking or
whispering was allowed. There was pin-drop silence in the class except
for the rhythmic snoring of our teacher. Thanks to her prolonged snoring
bout, we got ample time to master the spellings of many difficult words—from
lieutenant, bourgeois, quintessence, manoeuvre to hierarchy and so on. |
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I regret to admit that I also snore. My wife says she can’t stand the uneasy silence of the night and prefers to listen to my snoring until she falls asleep. You may think that she doesn’t have an alternative, but I believe her words. After all, my snoring is a sign that I am alive, my lungs are functioning, my heart is beating and that only my brain is taking rest. Recently, my five-year-old daughter also started snoring. This gave my wife a chance to postulate her own theory. "This is genetically determined, she’s got the snoring genes from you!" I have read that a gadget is available in the international market to drown or diminish the sound of snoring. One has to put it in the mouth or nose before going to bed (I haven’t seen one yet). I think it is better to plug the ears of the listener/s than to put a sophisticated instrument into the mouth of the ‘culprits’! So, all ye who snore, don’t feel guilty. Homo sapiens have been snoring for millions of years. Think of snoring as no more than the innocent purring of a cat! |
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EVERYDAY
a new theory is being put forward about snoring. Some of the causes
commonly cited are air obstruction due to narrow nasal passage, enlarged
tonsils, falling back of the tongue, micrognathia (small chin bone),
sedation due to drugs and alcohol, bizarre sleeping posture and so on.
Researchers also warn us about the consequences: divorce, sleep apnoea
(cessation of breathing during sleep), heart diseases, sudden death,
etc.