Snoring with tape to the mouth does not work, may aggravate snoring, and even cause a lack of oxygen to the brain.
Snoring may be caused by excessive obesity, enlarged tonsils, mandibular retraction deformity, deviated nasal septum and other reasons, resulting in narrow airways. Treatment of the original disease is needed to relieve snoring.
Over-obesity can be treated by increasing aerobic exercise, scientific diet, weight control, improving snoring, or wearing a ventilator.
Tonsil hypertrophy caused by, can consider surgery to remove the tonsils.
If it is caused by mandibular retraction deformity, a mandibular advancement device can be used, which can widen the upper airway to improve the symptoms.
For snoring caused by a deviated nasal septum, treatments such as nasal septum correction and septoplasty are feasible to correct structural abnormalities of the nasal cavity.
Taping the mouth will aggravate hypoxia and dyspnea due to narrowing of the airway and will not improve snoring. It is recommended that people who snore should seek medical treatment in time to clarify the cause of the disease and then target treatment.