As I grew older and started learning about these things, I went through a lot of eliminations in my diet even though it doesn’t show at all in my blood work, dairy makes me feel congested and backed up right away. I noticed a lot of dryness in the mornings when I woke up I had to drink a lot of water before bed and needed to wake up in the middle of the night sometimes to go to the bathroom. I was one of those kids who wasn’t necessarily always sick to the point I was missing school, but I was always snotty-nosed and congested.Īs I grew older and started learning about all these things, I noticed my mouth was often open at night. My parents would argue over whether to get my tonsils out or not. I always had tonsillar issues, and when I slept, I was always moving around the bed and would get frequent colds. I was a partial mouth breather as a child. Our mandible, the lower jaw, can also go back, obstructing the airway. The minute we lie down-because we’re on a horizontal plane-all the things we have in our nose and sinuses start going to the back of our mouth. There are many people who are normal nose-breathers during the day, but at night, they’re mouth breathers. If early enough in life, there was an obstruction or anatomical deviation-even if it gets corrected later-mouth breathing can become our habitual way of breathing.

Sometimes I see an extra tooth that’s inverted start to obstruct the nasal airway.ģ.

Something anatomical is creating an airway obstruction: a significantly deviated septum, some kind of polyps, having very enlarged turbinates. Some of them become mouth breathers as a result.Ģ. In our practice, we see a tremendous number of kids with allergies, whether environmental or food-related. That could be anything from allergies and sensitivities to gas. There are at least three main reasons why people might breathe through their mouth:ġ. With infants, children, and adults, mouth breathing becomes an adaptation when someone isn’t getting enough oxygen through the nose. Healthy human infants breathe only though their noses mouth breathing kicks in as a survival reflex. Mouth breathing is not a natural thing for humans.

Kid inhaling keyboard cleaner