Why does my baby sleep with his mouth open?

Most people sleep with their mouths open because they suffer from rhinitis. When patients with rhinitis sleep, the blood circulation in their body is slow, so they will have nasal congestion and feel difficulty breathing. In order to convince themselves to have a good sleep, people will consciously open their mouths and breathe through their mouths. This is a subconscious action. So why do babies sleep with their mouths open?

It is a pathological condition for children to breathe with their mouths open while sleeping. It is harmful to their development and health. The cause should be found and corrected actively. Children usually breathe through their mouths due to some disease, such as rhinitis, sinusitis, hypertrophy of tonsils and tonsils, etc. It is because of the existence of the disease that the nasal cavity is blocked, forcing breathing to find another channel.

The dangers of mouth breathing include: affecting the normal development of the child's face, causing the face to become ugly, such as a sunken nasal root, atrophied nasal wings, crowded teeth, protruding upper front teeth, high arched palate, etc. At the same time, the child's expression is dull and lacks expression, which is medically called proliferative facies. Over time, it will also affect intellectual development, manifesting as decreased memory, slow reaction, and lower IQ.

In addition, when breathing through the mouth instead of the nose, the air inhaled into the lungs cannot become as gentle and moist as it would be through the nasal cavity. On the one hand, it will damage tissues such as the trachea and alveoli, and on the other hand, it will make the oral mucosa dry and easy to crack, change the normal pressure in the mouth, weaken the resistance to pathogens, and induce a variety of oral diseases.

For children who have developed the habit of breathing through their mouths, parents should not only take their children to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time, but also use the following methods to correct it: let the child wear a mask when sleeping. The mask is made of 4 layers of gauze with a layer of plastic film in the middle of the gauze. When wearing a mask, the child's nose must be exposed. After a period of training, most children can change the bad habit of breathing through their mouths.