How to correct sleeping with mouth open, you need to know these methods

Many children always sleep with their mouths open. If you have such a baby at home, you should pay attention. Adenoids hypertrophy will cause such symptoms. Take your baby for a check-up and make timely corrections. Otherwise, always sleeping with the mouth open will affect the baby's facial development.

1. How to correct sleeping with mouth open

1: Close your mouth and blow air frequently. You can whistle, blow a trumpet, eat a lollipop, chew gum and blow bubbles, etc., and use the tongue and cheek muscle movements to promote the cleanliness of the mouth and teeth.

2: Training the upper and lower lips and cheek muscles: Repeatedly use the upper and lower lips to clamp a piece of cardboard and quickly pull it out, 3 times a day, each time for 5 to 10 minutes. You can also clamp the magnetic card with your upper and lower lips until you get tired.

3: Wearing a special veil: For children who develop the habit of breathing with their mouths open, they should wear a special small mask with three layers of gauze when sleeping at night, leaving the nostrils exposed, forcing them to breathe through their nasal cavity.

4: How to breathe through your nose with your mouth closed after exercise: When doing exercises or jogging, remember to breathe through your nose with your mouth closed. After exercise, children are used to breathing heavily. At this time, parents can encourage their children to breathe through their noses with their mouths closed, and persevere in changing their children's habit of breathing through their mouths.

2. Why do some people breathe through their mouths?

There are several reasons for breathing through your mouth. On the one hand, due to poor air quality and high incidence of rhinitis, children will unconsciously breathe through their mouths when their noses are blocked. On the other hand, there is a lymphatic tissue called adenoids in the nasopharynx. When children are 6 or 7 years old, the adenoids begin to develop. Some children may become enlarged, which can also cause difficulty breathing through the nose.

"Currently, for children under the age of 12 who breathe through their mouths, these two reasons account for 70 to 80 percent, or even more." In the weekend clinic, many parents bring their children to see this problem, which is quite common.