A scientific review of 10 research conducted previously revealed that the fashion of the mouth closing during sleep to prevent breathing from the mouth may cause suffocation and other severe damages that affect health.
The review was conducted by Dr. Brian Rottenberg and his colleagues from Western University in Ontario, Canada and published its results in the “Plos One” magazine on May 21, and the Yurrick Alert website wrote about it.
Why do people close their mouths while sleeping?
Breathing is transmitted from the nose to the mouth when the nasal passages are clogged. Breathing out of the mouth was tied to sleep disturbances, which includes cases ranging from snoring to sleepless obesity, where breathing stops during sleep and then begins again repeatedly.
The spread of mouth closing fashion during sleep to prevent breathing from the mouth recently, which was reinforced by social media, led some people to close their mouths at night with adhesive tape in an attempt to treat breathing disorders during sleep by preventing oral breathing.
Despite the widespread spread of this fashion, the safety and effectiveness of the mouth closing at night with an unclear adhesive tape. To help assess the benefit of this practice based on the available evidence, see Rottenberg and his colleagues at the St. Joseph Health Care Center, and the London Health Science Center Research Institute in Ontario Canada systematically studies that have evaluated this practice.
Their analysis included 10 studies that used various research methods to assess the potential benefits to closely closing the mouth – using adhesive tape or other devices, such as chin belts – at 213 patients.
Is it useful to close the mouth at night?
Among the ten studies, two studies indicated that the closure of the mouth may be associated with a slight improvement in the scale of the intensity of the sleep apnea, known as the Amplay Index, in a limited group of people who suffer from mild sleepy hypertension, while other studies did not find any evidence that the closure of the mouth tightly may help in treating oral respiration, sleeping during sleep, or sleepless sleep.
4 of the ten studies discussed the risk of potential suffocation that the mouth closed tightly while sleeping for people with tight or severe blockage in the nasal airways. Dangerous nose may result from cases such as hay fever, chronic rhinitis, nasal septum deviation, sinusitis, or enlarged tonsils.
Based on these results, the researchers concluded that the available evidence does not support the use of a night adhesive tape to treat sleep breathing disorders, including sleepless obesity.
The researchers add: “Putting an adhesive tape on the mouth is a contemporary practice of a contemporary practice that is often the support of celebrities, but it is not necessarily scientifically accurate. Many people do not suit them using adhesive tape, and in some cases this may lead to severe health risks.”