What causes dry mouth when sleeping?

The best state of sleep is to sleep until dawn. If you wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, the quality of your sleep will be greatly reduced. However, we often wake up in the middle of the night. It may be because we have a nightmare and wake ourselves up, or it may be because we feel dry mouth and tongue after sleeping, and there feels like a ball of fire in our mouth when we breathe. It is impossible to sleep well in this state. What causes dry mouth while sleeping?

Especially in winter, I feel very uncomfortable when I sleep with dry mouth and tongue at night. I have had this experience as well. Now let me share with you why you have dry mouth and tongue when you sleep at night.

Dry mouth and tongue when sleeping at night is called Sjögren's syndrome, which is a chronic autoimmune disease that mainly invades exocrine glands such as lacrimal glands and salivary glands. It is also called autoimmune exocrine gland disease.

There are three main reasons.

1: Lack of water in the human body causes thirst. When the weather is hot, when doing heavy physical labor, when losing blood, when suffering from burns, when vomiting, when having diarrhea, or when sweating profusely due to high temperature (heat stroke), the human body may suffer from severe lack of water, which may lead to thirst.

2: Thirst caused by diabetes. Many diabetic patients have high blood sugar, which causes a sharp increase in urine output. At this time, even if you drink a lot of water, you will still feel unbearable thirst.

The reason why you have dry mouth and tongue when you sleep at night needs to attract everyone's attention. You need to find out the cause and mainly use Chinese medicine for conditioning. I hope this article about the reason why you have dry mouth and tongue when you sleep at night can help everyone.

For us ordinary normal people: the first effective method is to replenish the body with water in time. But we need to pay attention that it is best to drink boiled water, because drinking beverages or sour things or drinking alcohol are not good for replenishing water to the body and relieving dry mouth.

What to eat for dry mouth in spring

Yam porridge

First, boil the rice until it is 70% cooked. Then peel and wash the fresh yam, slice it, put it into the pot and cook until done. Finally, add an appropriate amount of rock sugar and cook until it melts before turning off the heat. This porridge is best eaten for breakfast, dinner or midnight snack.

Features: Eating yam porridge more often in spring is especially beneficial for middle-aged and elderly people. (However, yam has the effect of absorbing moisture, so people with constipation should not eat too much of it).

Leek porridge

Pour the washed rice into the pot, add water and boil it, then simmer it over low heat until it becomes porridge; after chopping the leek, mix it with an appropriate amount of cooking oil. Before eating, add a little chopped meat to the leek mixed with oil, put it into the porridge and stir evenly, then add an appropriate amount of salt and chicken essence to season, and cook it for a while to make the delicious leek porridge, which can be eaten in the morning and evening. However, for leek porridge, leeks must be added after the porridge is cooked, otherwise the leeks will be stored in the porridge for too long and will affect the taste of the porridge.

Features: Chives are rich in various vitamins, sugars and proteins. Eating some leeks in spring can help with seasoning, sterilization and immunity enhancement.

Celery Porridge

Wash the celery with roots, chop it into small pieces and stir-fry it with minced or shredded lean meat, then set aside. Take an appropriate amount of rice, add chicken soup and cook it into porridge, add the fried celery and chopped meat, then season with salt and cook for a while. This porridge is best for breakfast because it tastes fresh and fragrant, and can put you in a good mood for work in the morning.

Features: Calming the liver and clearing away heat, relieving cough, strengthening the stomach, lowering blood pressure and lipids.

Pork Liver Porridge

First, cook rice into porridge and set aside. Then take a piece of pork liver, soak it in clean water for half an hour, chop it into small pieces, add appropriate amount of cornstarch, minced ginger and salad oil, stir well, then add it into the boiling porridge, stir gently with a spoon and add appropriate amount of salt, white pepper powder and chicken essence to season. Cook until the pork liver is cooked through and then turn off the heat. It will taste better if you drizzle a little sesame oil on it when eating.

Features: Adding some wolfberry to pork liver porridge is suitable for patients who often suffer from dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, spermatorrhea, sore waist and knees, etc.