Dry Mouth When You Wake Up

Group: General Diet & Nutrition

Created: 2011/12/31, Members: 400, Messages: 16719

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porphyria Posts: 106 Joined: 2004/04/24	2004/10/09, 12:52 PM I have always struggled with this problem, I guess, for aslong as I can remember. What causes it? It's digusting. I wake up and my mouth is like literally a desert and its almost "stuck together". I have been drinking 16 oz of water before I goto sleep and it hasn't done anything. Has anyone else struggled with this and got over it? If so.. how?!?!

deadheadted Posts: 123 Joined: 2004/05/31	2004/10/09, 07:43 PM If I fall asleep on my back, I have a tendency to sleep with my mouth open, generating the same effect. Not sure there's anything you can do about it short of rubber-banding your mouth shut, which probably isn't the smartest idea - what with the need to breathe and all if your nose is stuffed.
fsdsk Posts: 959 Joined: 2003/11/30	2004/10/09, 08:00 PM You could buy a humidifier
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2004/10/09, 08:34 PM ============ Quoting from porphyria: I have always struggled with this problem, I guess, for aslong as I can remember. What causes it? It's digusting. I wake up and my mouth is like literally a desert and its almost "stuck together". I have been drinking 16 oz of water before I goto sleep and it hasn't done anything. Has anyone else struggled with this and got over it? If so.. how?!?! ============= Check this site out. http://www.sjogrens.com/ It talks about sjogrens syndrome (dry mouth ). Hope you can get something out of it! -------------- "A will finds a way, failure is not an option" Ivan carivan@freetrainers.com Montreal Canada
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2004/10/09, 08:38 PM I do the same thing, I keep a glass of water next to my bed, cause I wake up off and on in the night. -------------- ....I\'m probably in my underwear typing this......or maybe not!
mmaibohm Posts: 1,621 Joined: 2003/09/30	2004/10/11, 08:44 PM You are sleeping with your mouth open most likely. Is your nose stuffy before or during sleep. -------------- I am that which must be feared, worshipped and adored. The world is mine now and forever.No one holds command over me. No man. No god. I am ANIMAL! and that is enough.
nutritionworks Posts: 66 Joined: 2004/09/18	2004/10/11, 10:14 PM Maybe try a breathe right strip to help keep nasal passages open and not breathe through mouth when sleeping??? Just a thought...
Anni313 Posts: 1,790 Joined: 2004/03/04	2004/10/12, 07:27 AM I vote for the breathe right strips. I snore like a lumberjack, they help that and the dry mouth. I think I see football players wearing them too, so you know it's manly. -------------- Anni ******* Hard work must have killed somebody
nutritionworks Posts: 66 Joined: 2004/09/18	2004/10/12, 07:29 PM If only they came in black so they matched the fashionable black football smudge under the eyes LOL Kidding!
puresnowchic Posts: 151 Joined: 2004/07/28	2004/10/12, 08:24 PM You say you are drinking water at night before bed but how much during the day?? are you getting enough??? -------------- My mind tells me to win, my spirit shows me how, and my body delivers.
kenny_wtf Posts: 195 Joined: 2005/08/08	2006/02/17, 11:22 AM if you wake up with a dry mouth just go brush ur teeth. i guess we all wake up with dry mouths in the morning..guess we all have to deal with it. but if u keep waking up in the middle of the night and cant handle the dry mouth then try the things mentioned in the above posts.
Lonegirl Posts: 446 Joined: 2002/11/13	2006/02/19, 01:43 PM It is also natural to have a dry mouth when you wake up as you are not swallowing the same and so the saliva production drops.....I certainly wouldn't want to drwon in my sleep :) But yes, excessive dryness is likely caused by open mouthed breathing...I find if I have a cold I do this...and will end up with a dry, sore mouth.
Lonegirl Posts: 446 Joined: 2002/11/13	2006/02/19, 01:44 PM oops typo.....drown not drwon :)
bigandrew Posts: 5,146 Joined: 2002/10/21	2006/02/23, 11:03 AM also when you breath you loose some water vapor.....respiration. You go 8 hours or more without water. So its also due to that.You also loose it under your skin...hince why some look more "cut" in the morning. Not as much water under the skin. -------------- Get your bicep curling, cut off shirt, matching workout outfit wearing,flexing in mirror "toned" wanna-be ass , out of my squat rack! People don't reach thier true potental, only those who seek it.