This is really a fantastic news for anyone affected by loud snoring. A small clinical trial in the U.S. shows that an anti snoring pill can cut snoring rates by as much as 70%. No need to buy anti snoring devices or undergo surgical procedure. Bigger studies are planned to see if the drug could be the magic bullet in the treatment of sleep apnoea.

According to Daily Mail UK

A pill is regarded by some experts as the holy grail of snoring therapy.

The new drug, called Qnexa, was developed as a weightloss medicine. It contains a mixture of a stimulant drug called phentermine and an anti-epilepsy drug called topiramate.

Researchers noticed an added benefit when they tested volunteers to measure the effects on sleep apnoea.
Over the course of the trial, which involved men and women aged 30 to 65, the number of times their sleep was disrupted by snoring-related problems dropped from an average of 46 times an hour to just 14.

At the same time, they lost an average of 10 per cent of their body weight and saw a significant drop in blood pressure. Vivus Inc, the California drug firm that developed Qnexa, says it hopes to get it licensed to treat sleep apnoea.

Professor Jim Horne, a specialist in sleep medicine at Loughborough University, said: ‘Around 50 per cent of obese people suffer sleep apnoea to some degree,’ he says.

‘When they lie down in bed, their muscles relax and then the fat around their neck compresses the airway even further. It’s possible this drug helps by triggering weight loss.

‘Or it might be that it somehow makes the throat muscles a bit more taut.

‘We won’t know whether it is any use to habitual snorers who are not overweight until more research has been carried out.’