Sleep Positions and Mouth Breathing: The IMPACT on Your Sleep Quality
00:00:00.000 | - What about mouth taping?
00:00:00.840 | - I can be such a fan of mouth taping,
00:00:03.400 | but I think here are the caveats,
00:00:04.920 | and this is why a lot of the sleep community
00:00:06.400 | is upset about it,
00:00:07.480 | is that many people are just mouth taping
00:00:11.200 | and not taking the steps to get tested
00:00:14.960 | to make sure there's no respiratory-based disturbances
00:00:18.000 | at play, because if you are,
00:00:20.120 | you truly are just band-aiding the problem
00:00:23.040 | to the point that it can actually make it worse
00:00:25.080 | in some cases.
00:00:26.440 | If you do have sleep apnea, upper air resistance syndrome,
00:00:30.040 | some of the snoring,
00:00:30.960 | but that's not to say that one,
00:00:32.800 | if we clear that out, make sure that's not present
00:00:35.760 | and you're good to go,
00:00:37.000 | then that you couldn't benefit from mouth taping.
00:00:39.320 | And it's also not to say that then if we discover
00:00:41.800 | you have one of these disorders,
00:00:43.280 | then can we use mouth tape to help
00:00:46.120 | with the treatment process,
00:00:47.720 | that you're also being treated for this
00:00:49.800 | and using mouth tape,
00:00:51.160 | you can absolutely do that as well.
00:00:52.880 | There's just a concern,
00:00:53.920 | 'cause some people are now just blindly
00:00:56.680 | taking these steps without knowing
00:00:58.280 | that they might be doing some harm.