Recently, a mother in the WeChat circle of friends posted a photo of the child sleeping, not to look at it is okay, a look really shocked me: this girl's mouth was sealed by the mother with tape!
Shut your mouth, how do you sleep? Isn't it uncomfortable for your child to sleep? Does it not affect the child's breathing?
In the face of the "doubts" of friends in the circle of friends, An An's mother explained to the curious onlookers: This is the doctor's suggestion.
It turns out that 5-year-old An An always likes to breathe with his mouth open recently, and even when he is asleep, his mouth is open.
The more Ann's mother looked, the more wrong she became, breathing with her mouth open, easily inhaling dirty things, and easily choking and coughing.
Confused, An An was quickly taken to the hospital by her mother to see a doctor.
The doctor asked about the medical history, examined the child's oral development, and came to the conclusion that this condition is called "oral breathing".
The doctor advised her that she needed to tape the child's mouth while she slept, so she rushed to buy the tape.
Subsequently, she shared the matter with the circle of friends.
What An An's mother did not expect was that her circle of friends actually attracted the resonance of many mothers:
Check again, the original sealing tape on a treasure has long been welcomed by the majority of parents.
In this way, there are still many children who breathe through the mouth.
Are there so many children with mouth breathing?
I went to check the relevant information, I really don't know, a check is shocked.
This probability is 30%, which means that 3 out of 10 children use their mouths instead of noses to breathe!
Normally, we all breathe through our noses, occasionally opening our mouths to assist in breathing.
However, oral breathing patients are breathing with their mouths for 24 hours. Sounds tiring, right?
There are many reasons for allowing children to form oral breathing, such as upper airway obstruction, such as sinusitis, adenoidal hypertrophy, tonsillar hypertrophy and other pathological factors.
But there are some children, there is no disease, just simple oral breathing.
The causes of simple oral breathing are complex, some of which are caused by the congenital weakness of children's orbicularis muscles (that is, the muscles around the lips), and we close our mouths, which requires the strength of this circle of muscles.
It is also possible that the nasopharyngeal long-term disease causes secondary open-mouth breathing, and although the primary disease has healed, the habit of oral breathing has remained.
Children are in the growth and development period, and the facial bones and teeth are not fixed. Long-term oral breathing can affect your child's physical health and development.
Affects the value of the face
This is the most intuitive impact.
Children with long-term oral breathing are likely to develop this "adenoidal appearance".
Adenoidal face
These two sets of real people can see the huge effect of export breathing on the change of appearance:
Image by British orthodontologist John Mew
▲ This little Lori was already a serious oral breathing patient when she was 6 years old, and by the age of 9, she became the right side of the figure, was she not as cute as when she was a child?
Image by British orthodontist John Mew
▲ When I was a child, the handsome and handsome little Shota grew up, but when she grew up, she grew up and became more crooked, and her heart ached...
Affects posture
In addition to affecting the appearance, long-term breathing with the mouth will also make the head involuntarily lean forward, which will cause pressure on the back and neck in the long run, and it looks like a hunchback.
Nowadays, many school-age children use tie rod school bags, and many bad standing and sitting postures such as neck forward probing and "hunchback" do not come from the weight of the bag, but from oral breathing.
Affects health
There is no nasal-like structure in the mouth, and the airflow does not pass through the wetting/heating/deceleration/filtering of the nasal cavity like nasal breathing. Therefore, it is easier to irritate the mucous membranes, causing mouth ulcers and enlargement of the tonsils and adenoids.
Enlarged tonsils and adenoids will further block the airways, causing an increase in nasal airway pressure and again increasing the incidence of oral breathing.
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Moreover, when sleeping, opening your mouth to breathe is easy to over-dry your mouth, bacteria are more likely to invade, and it is easy to lead to the occurrence of dental disease. Therefore, many adults who breathe through their mouths will always have red and swollen gums, frequent bleeding, and even trigger bad breath. (Hissing, it hurts to think about!) ）
Affects development
Children who breathe through the mouth will have breath holding and sleep interruption during sleep, which will lead to a decrease in sleep status during deep sleep and an increase in the number of night awakenings.
If you don't sleep well, it is difficult to achieve normal levels of growth hormone secretion, which is likely to affect the growth and development of children.
Don't be so anxious to make up your mind,
Sleep with your mouth open≠ breath.
Oral breathing is a form of breathing in which the upper airway is completely or partially blocked, resulting in airflow not through the nasal cavity, but through the mouth into the lungs.
Therefore, opening your mouth is not necessarily oral breathing, the key is to see whether the airflow is mainly from the nasal cavity or the mouth.
You can test your child with these two small methods
Fog mirror test method
When the child is asleep, parents can put a small mirror (the temperature of the mirror is lower than the room temperature) in the child's nostrils and lips, observe the fog on the mirror surface, if the nose exhales more, then do not worry too much, do not have to follow the trend to wear oral orthosis.
If the fog on the mirror surface is found to be concentrated at the lips, parents should pay attention to it and need to take their children to a professional dentistry in time.
Shut up test method
This is relatively simple and rude.
Gently pinch your baby's mouth while your child is asleep, and if your baby shows signs of struggle during this time, it may also be oral breathing.
Be careful not to pinch for too long Ha, don't play off...
Of course, these two methods can only be used as a reference. The final result is still subject to the doctor's examination results.
In general, it is not easy to have an adenoidal appearance before the age of four, and it is easy to correct oral breathing.
But we have been ignoring the problem of children breathing through the mouth, and by the time they are six or seven years old, they may already have adenoidal appearance.
At this time, to correct it, it is necessary to find an orthodontist in the department of stomatology and guide it through some physical means to change the appearance of the adenoid.
If you wait until the 12-year-old to completely complete the tooth change and then correct, the facial changes that have been formed are more difficult to correct.
Generally speaking, 2 to 10 years old is the golden age for treating oral breathing in children. Once it is determined that the child is breathing through the mouth, parents should immediately take the following actions:
Make sure your child can breathe through the nasal airway, otherwise go to the hospital's OTOL department for treatment.
Make sure your child has treated allergies, as allergies can force your child to breathe through his mouth.
Summarize which oral breathing symptoms your child has developed in this article and document it.
Consult with a dentist, the doctor can help the child through muscle balance training, the first time to treat the person's oral breathing, to prevent any subsequent adverse development effects.
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