Recently, Xiaobian found a product on a treasure platform - mouth breathing paste monthly sales of up to 10w+, claiming that it can correct the breathing of the mouth and prevent the baby from becoming ugly due to oral breathing, does this really work?
First of all, the conclusion, oral breathing patch can not work, find the reason for the outlet breathing in order to prescribe the right medicine. The reasons why babies sleep with their mouths open are mainly divided into three types.
1. Because of bad oral habits, such as improper feeding methods for babies, frequent finger sucking or tongue-spitting behavior, etc., leading to habitual opening of the baby's mouth.
2. It may be caused by tonsillar hypertrophy, adenoidal hypertrophy, allergic rhinitis and other reasons affecting nasopharyngeal ventilation, so that the baby has to open his mouth to breathe, and this situation is often accompanied by snoring.
3. Baby's high weight, excessive obesity caused by oral breathing.
The mouth breathing patch is only very rough and simple to seal the baby's mouth, and can not fundamentally solve the child's nasal breathing problem, once the original situation is removed, it will reappear, and it may cause other problems.
1. Affect sleep quality:
Most of the oral breathing patches on the market are declared comfortable and breathable, but the comfortable breathing mouth and breathing patches are a kind of constraint for small babies, and the baby may be struggling with it all night, which greatly affects the quality of sleep.
2. Hypoxia:
The baby opens his mouth to breathe because the nose breathing is not comfortable, at this time, if you stick to the baby's mouth, it is undoubtedly to prevent the baby from inhaling fresh air, resulting in the baby's low oxygen and hypoxia during sleep, and there may be a serious situation of suffocation.
Myth 1: Opening the mouth = breathing through the mouth
Infants and young children have weak lip muscle strength, the mouth will be slightly open, but in fact, there is no flow of air flow through the mouth, this situation is not oral breathing, and with the development of the baby's facial muscles will improve.
How to judge oral breathing:
1. Paper method: Parents can tear off a long strip of toilet paper after the baby is asleep, and then close to the baby's nostrils and mouth, respectively, to observe the shaking of the paper strips to determine whether to breathe orally.
2. Face mirror method: put a mirror under the child's nose, and then place it under the mouth, observe the fog above the mirror, the nose fog is more than normal nasal breathing, and the mouth fog is more than mouth breathing.
Myth 2: Breathing = Getting ugly
Studies have shown that there is no direct correlation between oral breathing and facial morphology. Of course, oral breathing will change the dental arch, resulting in tooth deformity growth, but it will not cause facial deformity to become ugly. (Facial growth is mainly influenced by genetic factors.) ）