Many breathe through the mouth, causing their jaw to drop and the tongue to move back, blocking the airway.
Loud snoring has been the cause of countless divorces. But now, couples from all over the world believe they have found a surprisingly simple solution to save their marriage and be able to sleep in the same bed.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the secret lies in a small piece of duct tape that the snorer uses to cover his mouth before going to bed at night.
In fact, those who have tried the technique prefer to use a piece of medical tape, which they stick to their mouth, either horizontally or vertically. In this way, they manage to redirect their breathing through the nose and thus deal with snoring.
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But there are those in the medical community who believe that no one should tape their mouth, unless they have been a victim of abduction.
First of all, this practice has been poorly studied and according to some doctors, it could be dangerous. “Let’s say you have some medical problems like acid reflux disease. “Having tape over your mouth can be harmful”Dr. Aarti Grover of Tufts Medical Center’s Sleep Medicine Center in Boston tells the Wall Street Journal.
But Dr. Steven Park counters that many doctors are overly cautious. A former ENT surgeon at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he himself applies this practice to himself and has not identified cases where anything bad happened. “Worst case, you wake up and take the film out,” he says.
As he explains, the tape is not effective for all snorers, but it can work for those who breathe through the mouth while they sleep. Many breathe through the mouth, causing their jaw to drop and the tongue to move back, blocking the airway. The film stops all of this by keeping its mouth shut.
Although there is evidence of mothers covering their babies’ mouths for a better night’s sleep as far back as the 1800s, the practice of taping was something no one talked about until 2019. That changed when entrepreneur Nicholas Michalak appeared on the TV show Shark Tank’ to introduce his company, SomniFix, and lip tapes. Taking inspiration from his father, who used surgical tape and cardboard to curb his snoring, Michalak spent six months trying different tapes on himself. What he was looking for was a tape that wasn’t too clingy but also wasn’t so weak that it would come off at night.
A year later, author James Nestor wrote about the use of mouth tape in his book ‘Breath’. This year, related videos have become popular on TikTok.
For the last 6 weeks I’ve taped my mouth before going to sleep.
Here are 8 things I’ve learned: pic.twitter.com/QMcTxiLlPl
— Dan Go (@FitFounder) August 7, 2022
The practice has barely begun to be studied. The best-known research was done in Taiwan, where scientists investigated whether taping the mouths of 30 patients who habitually breathed through their mouths while sleeping could reduce snoring and apnea. In a study published in 2015, they concluded that a patch, similar to tape, was useful for doing just that.
Another researcher, Dr. Ann Kearney of Stanford University’s Voice and Swallowing Center is organizing a similar study that she hopes will include 300 patients.
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