Worry about sleeping with your mouth or eyes half open

Infants often sleep with their mouths half open or their eyes open, not like adults. I wonder why this is the case and whether it is normal.

Editorial "Site" I asked what the pediatricians of private clinics thought about this. It turns out that most often sleep in this position is due to the incomplete formation of the nervous system.



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Baby sleep consists of fast and slow phases, replacing one another. During sleep, the baby’s brain works intensively, showing him eventful multicolored dreams. Rainbow pictures make the baby move his eyes, smile, shudder, flinch, catch air with his mouth. By one and a half years, all these reactions gradually disappear.



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But! If a dream with half-open eyes is permanent in a child aged two years, you should worry. During this period of life, the baby should behave in a dream the same way as adults. Deviations can indicate many things: shortened eyelids; lagophthalmos, exophthalmos and other ophthalmological diseases; disruption of the nervous and endocrine system; somnambulism; damage to the brain and even the development of oncology.



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Don't get scared right away. You just need to check on the child for his own benefit. The sooner violations are identified, the easier it will be to eliminate them. Prevention is always better than cure.

What can a dream with a half-open mouth at the age of two indicate? Again, violations. In a dream, the baby should breathe through his nose. During nasal breathing, the air passes through the nasopharynx, is moisturized, warmed, cleaned of dust and microorganisms, affects receptors that activate blood flow and brain function. Breathing through the nose during sleep, the baby quietly sleeps.





If the baby makes snoring or other side sounds with the nose and opens his mouth in a dream, then not everything is in order. Perhaps his nasal passages are clogged with mucus. The same is observed with ARI, rhinitis, the growth of adenoids. All this needs treatment. Particular attention should be paid to checking the presence of adenoids, the most common nasal childhood ailment.





Breathing with the mouth can become just a habit, stay even after healing the nasal tract and apply harm. This habit must be broken. Because such a seemingly trifle can lead to serious consequences: sleep disorders, chronic hypoxia, improper development of the dentomaxillary system, speech disorders, the formation of an adenoid type of face.





DepositPhotos What to do? In the pharmaceutical market, vestibular plates, or trainers, made of silicone have long been on sale. They help maintain the muscles responsible for closing the mouth in tone and stimulate the closing reflex of the lips.

Promotion of child health - care of their parents. Treat your child carefully, and he will repay you with gratitude: good health and good mood.