Recently, the topic of "children sleeping with their mouths open and breathing can become ugly" has been hotly discussed online. This discussion also ignited the "sealing stickers" on the online shopping platform, sealing the mouth and forcing the child not to open his mouth to breathe. So, does a child's sleep with his mouth open and breathing affect his health? Does this sealing sticker work?
On the short video platform, some parents posted videos saying that when their children sleep, they habitually open their mouths to breathe, which is troubled. For a time, many parents said that they had "the same paragraph" troubles, and some parents said that this habit of their children even affected their normal appearance. Ding Xiaoqiong, deputy chief physician of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of cuccidental hospital affiliated to Southeast University, introduced, "Sleeping with open mouth and breathing is harmful to children, and the nose ventilation is insufficient, so it is necessary to open the mouth to assist breathing." For children, it is in the growth and development period, and long-term open mouth breathing causes an adenoidal face, such a face lips are more upturned, the lower lip is relatively large, hanging outwards, not only large teeth, but also protrusion."
Children's sleeping open mouth breathing is medically known as obstructive sleep apnea in children, which can cause a series of complications in addition to affecting appearance. Many parents say they are using a "seal sticker" to help their children correct their mouths to sleep. The reporter opened the online shopping platform and found that this "seal sticker" is very popular, with monthly sales of more than 10,000 abounding, and the price is generally around 0.8 yuan per single piece. According to the introduction on the page, this sealing sticker is a kind of tape, divided into fork and lip shape, the use is to put on the mouth when the child sleeps, and seal the mouth. Some parents who have purchased it said that after a few nights of use of this sealing sticker, the child's mouth appeared red and swollen. Doctors point out that this method is not only useless, but also aggravates the condition.
Ding Xiaoqiong introduced, "Sealing is not advisable, the root cause of breathing in the mouth is that the pharyngeal cavity and nasal cavity are narrow and lead to insufficient breathing, sealing the mouth, ventilation is more insufficient, aggravating the hypoxemia of sleep, aggravating the symptoms of alcoholism, more affecting the growth and development of children, serious situations will be hypoxia, may lead to asphyxia, cardiac arrest and other consequences."
Doctors say that children sleeping with their mouths open and breathing can be cured through regular treatment, but first of all, they must find out the cause. Ding Xiaoqiong introduced, "If sleeping with your mouth open and breathing is a nasal congestion, you should treat nasal congestion. For children, the most common is adenoidal hypertrophy, short-term can be drug intervention, drug treatment is not good, can be surgically treated to improve nasal congestion, most of the narrow pharyngeal cavity is tonsillar hypertrophy, the same take corresponding measures, surgical removal of tonsils, improvement of the pharyngeal cavity, expansion of ventilation."
Parents who find that their children have abnormalities in their health during their growth, they should go to the hospital in time and do not trust the methods circulating on the Internet.
(Source: Zero Distance Reporter/Liu Shu Editor/Zhao Mengyan)