Is it ugly to sleep with your mouth open? Kelly, a doctor from the Oral and Maxillofacial Sleep Center of the Ninth Hospital, told the reporter, "Breathing with your mouth open while sleeping has no effect in the short term, but it will definitely change your face in the long run. Some people may be more obvious, while others are not. " When breathing through the nose, the mouth is closed and the tip of the tongue naturally stays on the palate. When breathing with your mouth open, your tongue sinks backwards to open the oral passage. In the long run, the mandible (that is, chin), which should develop forward and downward, will easily develop backward, so some children whose adenoid hypertrophy affects the airway will gradually become "adenoid faces", with their faces and mouths sunken and their noses turned into "noses facing the sky". In addition, breathing with the mouth open will also lead to the short and thick upper lip, irregular tooth arrangement, poor occlusion, buckteeth and other adverse effects.
"In the past, parents didn't care whether their children slept or snored with their mouths. In recent years, with the increasing attention to sleep problems, there are also many parents who bring their children to the stomatology department to find an expert team to see a doctor. " Kelly said that parents should never underestimate some bad habits of their children in life. If the child always breathes through his mouth or snores at night, he should take the child to see a doctor in time to find out what caused the diagnosis.
Breathing through the mouth has many reasons. On the one hand, when the nose is blocked, people will unconsciously breathe through their mouths. On the other hand, there is a kind of lymphoid tissue called adenoids in the nasopharynx. Under normal physiological conditions, it reaches its maximum at the age of 6-7, gradually shrinks after puberty, and basically disappears after adulthood. Sometimes due to heredity, irritation, infection and other reasons, the child's adenoids are too large, which will also lead to poor breathing in the nose.
It is reported that if adenoid hypertrophy seriously affects the airway, surgery may be needed; If the craniofacial deformity has been caused, the doctor will formulate a personalized orthognathic-orthodontic treatment plan; However, some children just have such bad habits. At this time, the doctor will give guidance and do some oral muscle function exercises to help children correct bad habits in time.
Disadvantages of sleeping with your mouth open Do you or people around you sleep with your mouth open? Even in a relaxed state such as watching TV and being distracted, you don't consciously open your mouth? Maybe many people think it's normal to sleep or watch TV with your mouth open! Is there a problem? Of course there is! Because they breathe through their mouths, and oral breathing has many disadvantages! The biggest drawback is that it will become ugly! Other disadvantages of sleeping with your mouth open are as follows:
Increase the chances of being infected by viruses and bacteria. There is a lot of dust and bacteria in the air. As the saying goes, "illness comes from the mouth." Once you breathe through your mouth, these germs will increase your chances of getting sick.
The fluff on the nasal mucosa that causes oral diseases has the function of moistening the air and blocking germs, while breathing through the mouth makes the oral mucosa dry, which is easy to cause oral diseases.
Affect the quality of sleep. Once you breathe through your mouth at night, the breathing in the nasal cavity will stop, which will slowly affect the metabolic state of the whole body and make the body unable to get a good rest.
Loss of appetite The olfactory function of the nasal cavity can stimulate appetite and help digestion. Long-term oral breathing will affect this function of nasal cavity, and then affect people's appetite.
Breathing with your mouth open for a long time in the sleep of buck teeth or irregular teeth arrangement will lead to abnormal development of children's upper and lower jaws, which will lead to buck teeth or irregular teeth arrangement. In severe cases, teeth cannot be closed normally, which will make children even more unable to close their mouths.
Beware of rhinitis and tonsillitis. Some people may unconsciously breathe through their mouths. At this time, we should pay attention to whether there are rhinitis and tonsillitis.
Sleeping with your mouth open has many disadvantages, so what are the taboos of sleeping? Taboo when sleeping, let's take a look.
The taboo when sleeping is to avoid covering your head when sleeping. It is cold in winter, and the elderly are generally afraid of the cold, so some elderly people like to sleep with their heads covered. This is extremely harmful to the body, because it inhales a lot of carbon dioxide exhaled by itself and lacks the necessary oxygen supplement.
It is also important to avoid lying on your back. Sleeping posture, lying to the right side is the best, so that the whole body bones and muscles are in a natural state of relaxation, easy to fall asleep, easy to eliminate fatigue. Lying on your back makes the whole body's bones and muscles still in a state of tension, which is not conducive to eliminating fatigue, and it is also easy to cause nightmares due to putting your hands on your chest, which affects the quality of sleep.
It's especially bad to sleep with the light on without looking at your eyes. When people sleep, although their eyes are closed, they still feel bright. Sleeping in front of the light is easy to make people uneasy, it is difficult to fall asleep, and even if they fall asleep, they are easy to wake up.
Avoid sleeping at windy nights and be sure to take shelter from the wind. Keep the room ventilated, but don't let the wind blow directly on you. Because people's adaptability to the external environment is reduced after falling asleep, if they sleep in the wind for a long time, cold air will invade the body, causing diseases such as colds and chills.
About one-third of a person's life is spent in sleep, which shows how important sleep is to everyone. In a sense, the quality of sleep determines the quality of life, so we must pay attention to it.