Wearing a mask to sleep can correct mouth breathing

Mr. Li’s 4-year-old daughter snored and slept with her mouth during her recent sleep. Zhang Silai, former director of Pediatrics Department of Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, points out that children must use mouth breathing for a long time and must be promptly corrected.

Many people have had this experience and when they have a severe cold and stuffy nose, they can only use their mouth to breathe while sleeping. Zhang Silai said that when patients have chronic rhinitis, turbinate hypertrophy, nasal septum bending, sinusitis and other diseases, the respiratory tract will be partially or completely unobstructed, patients have to use their mouth to breathe, and many children are self-cultivation Use your mouth to breathe bad habits.

She pointed out that breathing through the mouth will affect the normal development of the face, manifested as atrophy of the nose, lip hypertrophy, shallow nasolabial folds, curling of the upper lip, crowded dentition, and protrusion of the anterior teeth, affecting the appearance of the face. In addition, using the oral cavity instead of the nasal breathing, the air inhaling the lungs cannot be as gentle and moist as it is through the nasal cavity. On the one hand, it will cause damage to the trachea and alveoli and other tissues. On the other hand, it will make the oral mucosa dry and crack, weaken the resistance to the bacteria, and induce a variety of oral diseases.

Parents must promptly correct children's mouth breathing. First check the nasal cavity. If there is no obstruction of the nasal cavity, it is only due to the child's habit of self-cultivation and oral breathing. Parents should encourage and supervise the children's nasal breathing, in addition to promptly taking the child to the hospital for treatment. In addition, it is to put a mask on the child when the child goes to sleep. The mask is sewn with 4 layers of gauze and a layer of plastic film is added 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 their bad habits of breathing with their mouths.

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