Why do I wake up in the middle of the night because of saliva?

Sleep is very important to you. If you often lack sleep or have poor sleep quality, it will affect your normal life and work. Your work efficiency will be very low and your mind will be very dazed. If a sleeping person is suddenly awakened or disturbed, he will feel very uncomfortable. So why do you wake up in the middle of the night because of saliva? Let’s learn about it with the editor today.

Adults drool during sleep because they suffer from neurosis or other diseases that cause autonomic dysfunction, which leads to relatively hyperactivity of parasympathetic nerve activity, enhanced gastrointestinal motility, increased secretion of saliva and other digestive juices, and swallowing movements after falling asleep. They may suffer from mucosal ulcers, glossitis and other diseases, and the stimulation of chronic inflammation may also increase saliva secretion.

Also, due to the body position during sleep, sleeping on your side with your head tilted to one side, you are prone to drooling. Of course, the saliva flow in this case is less.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that drooling in adults is a manifestation of spleen and stomach dysfunction. This condition is common in cases of weakened spleen and stomach motility, water retention, spleen and stomach damp heat, or food retention in the stomach and downward movement, and stomach heat steaming up, which is the so-called "restless sleeping if the stomach is not in harmony."

What to do if you drool? First of all, you should not have any mental burden. Go to a regular hospital for a check-up and treat the primary disease of drooling, such as neurosis, oral inflammation, etc.; secondly, you should develop good eating habits, do not go to bed immediately after meals, do not eat too much for dinner or eat too much greasy, sticky and other indigestible food; thirdly, develop good hygiene habits such as rinsing your mouth after meals and brushing your teeth before going to bed to reduce the occurrence of oral inflammation. In addition, do not do strenuous exercise or overuse your brain before going to bed.