Drooling when sleeping smells bad. Do you know these hidden dangers?

In real life, most people have experienced drooling while sleeping. Drooling while sleeping is generally a normal phenomenon. If you lie in the wrong posture while sleeping, it will cause saliva to flow out, or if you breathe through your mouth unconsciously while sleeping, it will cause drooling. The saliva that flows out while sleeping has a bad smell, which may be caused by a disease.

We don’t drool after falling asleep, but if we often have smelly saliva, it means that the body has kidney deficiency and qi deficiency, with a tendency towards yang deficiency. The so-called "Yang" refers to the functional state of the body. People with yang deficiency have insufficient muscle elasticity and are prone to relaxation. Therefore, after falling asleep, their mouths will open and saliva will flow out. Of course, if you have a cold and a stuffy nose and need to open your mouth to breathe, that’s a different story.

If you often drool while sleeping, it is best to pay more attention to your body and make timely adjustments.

On a daily basis, you can take more Chinese herbal medicines that strengthen the spleen and kidneys, such as lotus seeds, water chestnuts and Chinese yam. If you don’t have dry mouth or bitter taste, you can add Codonopsis pilosula.

Drooling while sleeping may be caused by some "small problems" and requires everyone's attention.

First of all, it may be due to improper sleeping posture. Sleeping on the table or sleeping on your side can easily cause drooling.

Secondly, inflammation in the mouth can also promote saliva secretion. If the mouth is infected by bacteria, there will be obvious pain and drooling. Local medication is needed to promote ulcer healing and the drooling will disappear automatically.

Dental deformity is the third cause of drooling while sleeping. Especially for patients with convex tooth deformity, the front teeth protrude more obviously, and the lips are often open and the teeth are exposed. It is difficult for the lips to completely cover the front teeth when sleeping, and the upper and lower lips often separate naturally, which makes it easy to drool. It is best for such patients to correct their teeth as soon as possible.

Some systemic diseases may also cause drooling while sleeping. Some patients with neurosis or other systemic diseases that may cause autonomic nervous system disorders may also experience abnormal excitement of the parasympathetic nervous system during sleep, which may cause the brain to send erroneous signals and lead to increased saliva secretion.

In addition, one of the side effects of taking certain anti-epileptic drugs is drooling, so you need to be careful when choosing drugs.

Saliva, medically known as spit, is a colorless, transparent, foamy, slightly turbid liquid. The amount of saliva secretion is similar to that of urine, averaging about 1,500 ml per day.