Drooling at night may be caused by inflammation. 5 sleep phenomena indicate disease

Entering sleep is the most relaxing time for a person, but the body may sound a "health alarm" at this time. During sleep, some seemingly insignificant "little movements", such as talking in sleep, snoring, grinding teeth, leg twitching, etc., may be signals of physical illness, so don't underestimate these "little movements".

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The mouth is a channel for communication with the outside world and one of the sources of emotional excitement. It has the function of reflecting emotions such as tension and pessimism. If you are too nervous or excited during the day, when you fall asleep, the part of your brain that manages your chewing muscles will still be in an excited state and will continue to chew.

Surveys show that people who are introverted, depressed, emotionally unstable, and easily nervous are more likely to grind their teeth at night. Teeth grinding during sleep is most likely to occur when you are trying to escape subconscious psychological stress. The survey and analysis results of many scholars have also proved that patients with bruxism are more pessimistic than non-bruxism patients. Of course, this does not mean that all people will grind their teeth when the above situation occurs. There are also individual differences.

In addition, frequent teeth grinding in dreams is also related to gastrointestinal dysfunction caused by parasites. For example, ascariasis can also cause teeth grinding. The disturbance caused by the roundworms causes constant irritation of the intestinal wall and causes reflex contraction of the masticatory muscles, leading to bruxism.

Not liking to eat vegetables and long-term unbalanced nutritional intake will cause vitamin and trace element deficiencies. At night, the facial chewing muscles will easily contract involuntarily, resulting in teeth grinding.

Occasional teeth grinding is not harmful to health, but long-term teeth grinding or grinding teeth for too long every time after falling asleep may cause psychological and physiological disorders. The following methods can help prevent teeth grinding:

1. Open your mouth slightly or apply hot compresses to your cheeks during the day to try to relax the muscles in your jaw area;

2. Chew less gum, and do not chew cigarettes or pencils;

3. If teeth grinding is caused by stress, you can relax your body and mind through exercise, deep breathing or yoga;

4. People with ascariasis should receive anthelmintic treatment in time;

5. Eat clean food, eat more fruits and vegetables, and supplement vitamins;

6. If there is no improvement after one month of self-treatment, you can ask a dentist to prescribe a bite plate or mouth guard to prevent tooth damage.

Drooling

When you fall asleep, your muscles relax and your mouth opens, causing drooling. This phenomenon is especially likely to occur when you sleep on your side, are tired, or are very sleepy. According to traditional Chinese medicine, drooling while sleeping may be a sign of spleen deficiency.

The regulation of saliva secretion is entirely neuroreflexive. When a normal person sleeps, the brain controls the secretion of saliva. If the secretion increases, it may be a disorder of neural regulation.

The temperature and humidity in the mouth are most suitable for bacterial reproduction. The accumulation of food residues or sugar substances in the gaps between teeth and on the tooth surfaces can easily cause tooth decay and periodontal disease. These adverse factors can cause inflammation in the oral cavity and promote saliva secretion during sleep.

Diseases such as rhinitis and sinusitis can also increase saliva secretion and cause drooling. If your nose is often uncomfortable and accompanied by drooling, you should be alert to rhinitis.

【Countermeasures】

If you want to reduce drooling while sleeping, you should first pay attention to oral hygiene and develop the habit of brushing your teeth in the morning and evening and rinsing your mouth after meals. Do not eat too much indigestible food, do not do strenuous exercise or overuse your brain before going to bed.

In addition, you can also try to adjust your sleeping position to semi-side sleeping. If drooling is caused by dental disease, you should go to the hospital in time to remove tartar and actively treat gingivitis.

Sleep Talking

Modern medical research on dreams has confirmed that dreaming is not unique to a certain group of people, but is a physiological activity that accompanies everyone throughout their lives. It is the third state of brain activity between sleep and wakefulness. Dreams take up about 1/5 of our sleep time. Due to differences in dream causes, dream amounts, and dream states, the content of dreams varies, thus forming physiological dreams and pathological dreams.

Sleep talking refers to talking or making some kind of sound other than snoring during sleep, which cannot be recalled after waking up. It is a type of sleep disorder. Modern medicine believes that it is related to mental factors, and is often combined with nightmares, sleepwalking, etc. Many people occasionally experience talking in their sleep, which is not a cause for concern. However, if you talk in your sleep too frequently, it will cause fatigue and listlessness during the day, so you should seek treatment.

When a person falls asleep it does not mean that the brain completely rests; some brain cells may even become more active. If you are always in a tense state during the day, you will easily talk in your sleep at night. Some of the content of your dreams is often similar to your usual thoughts, mostly things you thought about during the day. This is also a way to vent your emotions.

【Countermeasures】

Frequent talking in sleep may be a sign of neurasthenia. The occurrence of neurasthenia is mainly related to long-term high-pressure life, so it is best to adjust the rhythm of life appropriately, relieve psychological pressure, and supplement nutrition.

Traveling or long-distance walking can help adjust the excitation and inhibition processes of the cerebral cortex and can effectively prevent and treat neurasthenia.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that:

The cause of nightmares is usually due to yin deficiency and excessive fire. The so-called yin deficiency refers to kidney yin deficiency, and excessive fire means excessive heart fire and insufficient kidney yin, which will lead to excessive heart fire and cause symptoms such as nightmares, insomnia, panic, and dizziness. Some people may also experience low back pain.

You should pay attention to replenishing kidney yin in your daily life and take Qiju Dihuang Pills for a long time. Because of kidney yin deficiency, special attention should be paid to the combination of work and rest, and avoid excessive fatigue. Eat a light diet, eat less spicy and irritating foods, and eat more heat-reducing foods such as lilies and lotus seeds.

Snoring

Under normal circumstances, snoring is mostly caused by physical fatigue. When falling asleep in a state of extreme fatigue, people will unconsciously breathe through the mouth to inhale more oxygen and eliminate fatigue. This will intensify the vibration of some soft tissues such as the soft palate and cause loud snoring.

There are also many people who habitually lie down or lie prone when sleeping. This sleeping position does not utilize lung activities and can easily cause snoring. Some people think that snoring is a sign of good sleep and good health. In fact, frequent snoring may also be a sign of disease.

If your snoring is high and low, and there are intervals of silence for tens of seconds to minutes, it is likely a sign of sleep apnea syndrome. Simply put, this is a sleep apnea disease caused by snoring. If this happens, you should go to the respiratory department of the hospital for treatment in time.

Snoring can also cause the brain and blood to be in a state of hypoxia and low blood pressure for a long time. The nervous system will self-regulate to maintain normal blood pressure. In the long run, it may cause hypertension and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

If certain parts of the upper respiratory tract become diseased or deformed, it may cause respiratory tract narrowing and lead to snoring. Therefore, people who snore frequently should pay attention to whether they have respiratory diseases, such as enlarged palatine tonsils, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, stomatitis, pharyngitis, etc.

Studies have shown that obese people are many times more likely to snore than ordinary people. This is because the airways of obese people are clogged with fat, causing difficulty in breathing.

【Countermeasures】

Some experts pointed out that if snoring is caused by personal habits or psychology, patients can avoid snoring through self-treatment, but if snoring is caused by other diseases, patients must go to the hospital for treatment in time, otherwise the consequences will be more serious. People who love snoring can usually relieve snoring symptoms through the following methods:

1. Adjust sleeping posture: This treatment is based on the patient's sleeping habits. If the patient snores due to incorrect posture, then the patient can avoid snoring by adjusting the posture.

2. Lose weight: If the patient snores due to obesity, it is best for the patient to control his weight and consume less high-fat foods.

3. Stress relief: If the patient is in a state of tension for a long time, then the patient needs to reduce snoring by stress relief. The patient can listen to light music or go for a walk.

Leg twitching

Many people experience occasional leg twitching when falling asleep and sleeping, but the frequency is generally very low and will not affect sleep. This is a normal phenomenon.

However, if the twitching occurs more than 5 times per hour, the quality of sleep will be affected. This phenomenon is called "periodic leg movements during sleep". It generally does not cause insomnia and daytime fatigue, and does not require hospital treatment. If it seriously affects the quality of sleep and even affects daytime life and study, it is called "periodic leg movement disease."

Periodic leg movement disorder refers to periodic, involuntary twitching of the legs (and occasionally the arms) during sleep, usually occurring every few tens of seconds or more than five times an hour. It can occur throughout the entire sleep process and manifests as partial bending of the toes, ankles, knees, and hips, often causing brief or complete awakenings and resulting in intermittent sleep, but the patient himself often cannot feel these movements. If this happens, you need to see a doctor.

【Countermeasures】

To improve leg twitching, you can soak your feet in warm water before going to bed to relax your leg muscles. Usually, you should drink more milk and other calcium-rich foods to replenish calcium in time.