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Drooling or sialorrhea can occur during sleep. It is often the result of open-mouth posture from CNS depressants intake or sleeping on one's side. Sometimes while sleeping, saliva does not build up at the back of the throat and does not trigger the normal swallow reflex, leading to the condition.
Popular sleep training methods, such as the Ferber Method, rely on letting the baby cry for a certain number of minutes, to allow the child a chance to fall asleep more independently and move away from an over-reliance on parental assistance to fall asleep. Advocates of attachment parenting generally reject traditional sleep training methods ...
CIO is any sleep-training method which allows a baby to cry for a specified period before the parent will offer comfort. "Ferberization" is one such approach. Ferber does not advocate simply leaving a baby to cry, but rather supports giving the baby time to learn to self-soothe, by offering comfort and support from the parent at predetermined ...
Having enough saliva helps neutralize acids created by the mouth’s bacteria. This “natural buffer” fights cavities, and saliva’s “washing action” clears away bacteria and food ...
Beyond a bad night’s sleep, which has been linked to other health problems like cardiovascular conditions and high blood pressure, he says that mouth breathing can bring on a host of additional ...
The adaptation from nasal to mouth breathing takes place when changes such as chronic middle ear infections, sinusitis, allergic rhinitis, upper airway infections, and sleep disturbances (e.g., snoring) take place. In addition, mouth breathing is often associated with a decrease in oxygen intake into the lungs.
Hypersalivation can contribute to drooling if there is an inability to keep the mouth closed or difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia) the excess saliva, which can lead to excessive spitting. Hypersalivation also often precedes emesis (vomiting), where it accompanies nausea (a feeling of needing to vomit).
In the life of your child, you easily exchange thousands of words every day, or at the very least every week. And while many of these conversations may seem normal and even fairly inconsequential ...