Twitching and biting tongue while sleeping

Some people may suddenly twitch or even bite their tongue while sleeping. These are all unconscious behaviors of people. The physiological reasons that lead to these symptoms may be excessive fatigue, nightmares, and excessive mental tension. If the mood is relieved, these symptoms will naturally disappear. Another cause is pathological, which may be caused by low blood calcium and epilepsy, and requires diagnosis and treatment.

Dry mouth when sleeping at night is mainly caused by breathing through the mouth. Try breathing through the nose when sleeping at night to improve this symptom.

1. It may be caused by dysfunction of the masseter and tongue muscles. During sleep, the human mouth and body are in a particularly relaxed state. If there is a sudden stimulation, the masseter muscles and other muscles will unconsciously contract suddenly and violently, which may cause the tongue to be bitten unconsciously. Therefore, if you don’t think too much before going to bed every night and maintain the correct sleeping posture when sleeping, such a situation will not occur.

2. On the other hand, it is probably because the teeth were not corrected properly when you were young and the correction was stopped before it was complete. Occasionally, you may have an improper sleeping posture, which makes it easier to bite your tongue. During sleep, the mouth and the entire body are in a very relaxed state, and that sudden stimulation can trigger the masseter and other muscles to contract suddenly and violently, causing the tongue to bleed after being bitten. You can go to the dentist to get a pair of braces and wear them in your mouth when you sleep.

3. It may be epilepsy. Epilepsy is a clinical syndrome characterized by recurrent abnormal discharges of brain nerve cells, leading to brain dysfunction. Before treatment, we must first find out the cause, distinguish the type and treat symptomatically. Blind treatment will not cure the disease. Epilepsy is a chronic brain disease. It is recommended to use traditional Chinese medicine gene regulation therapy combined with neural factor implantation therapy for standardized and systematic treatment.