A Californian medical company has won government approval to sell a new anti-snoring treatment, holding out the prospect of a better night’s sleep for snorers’ partners across America.
SnoreRx Medical Technologies, based in Sunnyvale, can now market a method to fight sleep apnea, the nocturnal halting of breath that leads to loud snoring. It is caused by tissue blocking the air passage.
Called SnoreRx, the treatment involves the insertion of a tiny electrode beneath the surface layers of the soft palate, an area of tissue at the rear of the roof of the mouth. The electrode transmits low levels of “radio frequency” energy. This generates a form of friction, which melts the snore-causing tissue.
According to Brian Emery, an assistant professor in the department of Otolaryngology at the University of Maryland Medical Centre, “SnoreRx offers dramatic benefits over other treatments for snoring, and the most important one is lack of pain”. Current treatment options, such as zquiet – or the cutting open of the soft palate, tonsils and the tissue of the body’s “upper airway” – are deeply invasive procedures, involving general anaesthetic and significant post-operative discomfort.
Forty million Americans, or about one in seven, suffer from sleep apnea. About 20 per cent of the middle-aged population snore every night, the majority of them men. By the age of 60, two-thirds of all men snore, often ferociously. SnoreRx offers a good chance to combat that. To read more about SnoreRx go here: http://sleepsilproducciones.com/does-snorerx-work-we-answer-the-question-decisively/
Another cure is from Dr Mansoor Madani. He prefers to channel such energy waves up people’s noses – and they thank him for it.
Patients pay $350 a nostril for the pleasure and in the hope that their three-minute, relatively pain-free experience will bring them five years’ relief from one of the most distressing and anti-social medical conditions known to man (and woman): snoring, writes Lindsay Nicolle .
The same medical procedure is proving equally effective as a cure for stuffy noses and general nasal congestion typically caused by allergies to molds, pollen’s dust, ragweed and animal hair. This is very welcome news for the millions of people in Britain currently sniffing and snorting their way through the late-summer fungal spores and pollen season, which is a particularly heavy one this year.
Dr Madani’s technique is about 100 years old, well-known in the medical fraternity but only recently approved by the American authorities for use as a treatment for habitual snoring. Research shows that 20 per cent of the total US population suffers chronic congestion of the nose.
The technology is radio frequency energy, originally used to cauterize blood vessels during surgery to prevent bleeding, shrink prostate gland tumors and monitor irregular heartbeats. The radio frequency energy unit Dr Madani employs is an evolution of that earlier SnoreRx snoring technology, and acts on the same principle as microwaves.
Radio frequency energy is sent down a very fine probe inserted into the back of the patient’s mouth and the tip is heated up to around 85C. Within three to six weeks the inflammation is absorbed into the body, returning the tissues to normal. Read more tips about sleep here.
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