European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 17 modern living taking the magic out of marriage i by John Witt United press International t keeps millions of people awake each strains countless marriages and can signal life threatening medical problems but doctors say snoring can usually be controlled with proper the word snore comes from a Middle English term that Means to the characteristic rattle and wheeze generally occurs in the deepest stages of sleep when the jaw Falls open and the breath Rushing through the Mouth causes the soft tissues of the Throat to my husband my son my dog snores and i snore we have arguments All the time about who is the most astrologer and t7 self help tips for snorers United press International from the time honoured poke in the ribs to Tennis electric shocks and there Are Many cures for the common Over the years the Patent office has received applications from the inventors of More than 200 anti snoring there Are a number of de vices available that fit inside the Mouth and set off alarms or electrify the sheets to Jolt the offender but doctors say there Are Many Folk remedies that Are less drastic and just As weight and avoiding alcohol and drugs at bedtime can often lower the nighttime noise sewing a Tennis Ball into the Back of a snorers Paja like an Elbow in the can discourage the offender from sleeping on his Back and sawing logs a padded Collar like the ones used to immobilize strained neck Muscles can keep the jaw from dropping open during sleep and Force a scorer to breathe quietly through his if these common self help tips fail to alleviate the a doctor May advise surgery to Correct potentially dangerous breathing obstructions that cause loud Lowrick operations can open clogged nasal passages and tighten the soft tissues in the Throat that vibrate during sometimes a procedure that lengthens the lower jaw can reduce the frequency and severity of snoring bouts by making the Mouth less Likely to fall children who snore can often Benefit from the removal of tonsils and printers Devil Rosie Harris sometimes our House sounds like its in the Middle of a Black Hole or a constant i usually try to fall asleep first so i dont have to research shows a big Bass snore can reach a noise level of 80 by Federal safety Stan Dards require factory workers to Wear earplugs at 85 and a Jackhammer generates Only about studies indicate that nearly half of All adults snore and about one in four has a chronic prob Lem that May be caused by dangerously obstructed breathing males Are the worst and the problem is accentuated by obesity and alcohol and used As sleeping aids by some May actually make the noise worse by relaxing the Muscles that hold the jaw Many otherwise Loving couples say they have to sleep separately to sleep at lawyers and marriage counsel ors list snoring As a contributing Factor in Many snoring can take the magic out of a said Jack Eberhart an nose and Throat specialist from in one recent Hospital 18 of 83 snorers surveyed confessed to making so much Racket they frequently drove their mates from the Dean psychologist and director of the sleep Laboratory at Virginia military said that while snorers cant hear they often get their feelings Hurt by constant no one wants to be viewed As the Champion purveyor of unfortunate and ugly that kind of self image can Breed Foster if your wife thinks of you As an Al night Frog it can create psycho logical Ole a Roanoke surgeon who performs Throat lifts and lengthens jaws to cure nocturnal noise said Many including under estimate the potential people who snore very the kind who make the roof May be suffering from an Airway of Renick some actually Stop breathing for a minute or the struggle to breathe usually causes the Sleeper to toss and turn and ruins sleep Renick said chronic snorers have been known to fall asleep at work or behind the a patient who does not breathe for several minutes each night can suffer brain damage Over a period of Renick a patient who has heart disease and bad circulation to begin if he stops breathing often his arterial oxygen could be decreased and a Small shift could put him in danger of a heart attack or a person who wakes up frequently with Chest pains May blame it on indigestion because circulation improves when he sits up and the pain Renick there May even be a correlation Between snoring and the High number of Hospital admissions that occur during the night especially with the Eber Hart doctors can perform sleep studies to Check oxygen Levels and As the potential dangers of snor ing have become More widely some health insurance companies Are now providing coverage for med ical it should not be disregarded As though there is Noth ing you can do about Eberhart it can be a lethal problem snoring can be hazardous to your Erma Bombeck you can pack your kids with teach them the alphabet and How to Tell you can expose them to the arts and you can advise them on handling rejection and Digap you can get a please and thank you out of them on a Good but you cant teach them and you cant take the credit for parents tend not to recognize courage in their kids when they see when a baby flights for us we Call it when a toddler Falls Down and gets up we Call it when a teenager says no to drink or drugs when All his contemporaries Are saying we Call it common when a child hangs on to a principle against some stiff we Label it non its a handicapped who attends a University in the wrote me an unusual letter about have cerebral she and my Mother has never accepted this As a a lot of things that were problems to her Long before i came i have Learned a lot through my a girl has to be resilient when her friends decide to hide her i have Learned to laugh at myself to save my once my Book bag was so heavy i fell Over backwards and  get Back 1 laughed until my sides split i Felt so from that Day Forward my who helped me called me it int my moms 1 love the lady with All my heart and realize mothers of handicapped children Arent there just Ordinary human you have to Tell a handicapped child that he is loved every Chance you a child can never hear it i cant give up on i want her to under stand that if i we rent it could have been i could have turned out to be a Valley for crying out How do you give someone the courage to face what they Are no one can share give it away or leave it behind when they you have to earn on the other youre never too old to get your even a Turtle Doest get anywhere unless he Sticks his neck if theres a Mother Reading this who sees herself Between the she might shrug and say her Handi capped daughter is Well Call it by its us name is c 1985 los Angeles times Syndicate