I know why you should stop mouth breathing. I have seen my clients’ lives change when they stop mouth breathing. I am shocked to learn that none of my clients’ doctors have ever asked them if they breathe through their mouth or their nose. Does that mean it isn’t important? NO. Does it mean that the doctors don’t know the consequences of mouth breathing? I can’t imagine that being the case, but it may be.
Are Tongue Thrust and Snoring Related?
Control your tongue and lips and you may accidentally stop snoring!
What do your tongue and lips have to do with stopping snoring? Picture this: you are lying on your back – mouth is open & tongue is down – air is sucked in and the snore is born!
In 1994, I opened an outpatient speech therapy clinic in Asheville, N.C. I started getting referrals for children who had tongue thrust. These were school-aged children so why weren’t they receiving speech therapy in the school? I learned that tongue thrust is not treated in the schools because it is not an educational problem. This meant that parents had to pay for private speech therapy and make arrangements for a weekly appointment.