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Revisiting Nightly Mouth Breathing During Sleeping Hours
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What an interesting subject. I'm a mouth breather at night and during the day, I am now consciously working on being a nose breather. I'm now pretty consistent during the day except when I exercise. The nose is an extra filter and after reading James Nestor's book "Breath", I believe nose breathing and modified box breathing is very helpful. I liked his research approach; a very interesting book and he discusses the importance of bringing up CO2 levels. I haven't tried the tape yet. I just try to correct my night breathing when I wake up and can consciously switch from mouth to nose. Also, my dentist told me that mouth breathing dries out the mouth (so does the saline nebulizing) and when your mouth is dry, you don't have the saliva to wash away the bacteria around your teeth and gums. So, it's bad for dental health. She recommended I use "Allday" spray which really helps. I don't swallow it, but it rapidly moistens and generates saliva. It really works.
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Yes the nose filters and the mouth does not.
I, my belief, believe this mouth breathing probably causes more problems than they know about, as yet.
Processed foods, as he mentions in the book (went to wikipedia to look the book info up) for sure causes problems. Who truly knows what the food processors know or don't know, but use, to sell their products. I recently heard a doctor say it simply for better health: 1. No processed foods. 2. Aerobics/Weight Lifting,. 3. Sleep and Recovery.
So far I have not had the dental problems. This mouth breathing, as far as I know for me, has gone on for over ten years. What I do have is mucus getting clogged up, as we all do with BE. So for me in my logical thinking, it doesn't help my BE that I am a mouth breather at night. Mouth breathing at night, night after night, might not only affect the mouth saliva drying up but it might dry out the moisture in the lungs and possibly causing dried up mucus vs. loose mucus and I may also be breathing in minute air particles of bacteria that for others might not cause a problem other than for people with BE. Just saying, what do I know!
Not sure why but I am no longer waking up with dry mouth with taping my lips closed and I believe it is helping to keep the mucus moist and loose because it is less sticky now when I wake up each time during the night for my visit down the hall. I am seeing a difference since taping the lips closed again. The sides of the tape and the sides of my mouth, are not taped but taping the center lip area, only, seems to be helping a great deal.
Thanks for replying....and the information. That's four of us so far as confessed night mouth breathers. Some people may not realize that they are mouth breathers at night until another notices it and tells them that they are.
Barbara
P.S. There are possibly at least two million people around the world that must be mouth breathers per the book being on the best sellers list and since the information showed that over 2 million books were sold so far after first publishing.