Why does my mouth and throat get SO DRY when I sleep at night?

Just out of curiosity, how do you know you're breathing completely through your nose? :)

Really the only way your throat would get that dry is if you were snoring or if you were breathing (even slightly) through your mouth. It doeesn't even have to be conventionally with an open mouth, but if your inhaling the air through your throat and then out your nose, it will still cause a very dry mouth. That's hard to explain, but if you try it, you can probably see...there is a way to inhale and exhale very much through your throat without opening your mouth.

There's really not a whole lot that you can do for this...it's common with a lot of people (not children, but adults). One thing that may help is the throat spray called Breathe Right Snore Relief Spray. Ignore the name--they claim it's for snoring, but what it really does it puts a coating of moisture in your throat. My boyfriend actually doesn't snore at all, but he uses it religiously because he claims it rids him of a dry tickle that he gets as soon as he lies down. The only down side is that it's not incredibly cheap. We get it for $10 a bottle, but that's on sale. It may be worth a try, though; like I said, my boyfriend definitely feels it's well worth it because the itchy dry throat was waking him.

Dry Throat At Night

Dry Mouth At Night

Only in the last few weeks some times when I m awake and always when I go to sleep my whole mouth becomes so dry that it s difficult to open it.it wakes me up many times in the night to rinse my entire mouth to get a short rest. Went to the doctor not sure what it is. I m 69 years old ?

Don't ever take the sleeping pills route!!

1. They will damage your liver big time and you can get into serious health problems.

2. You will get hooked up on them and you won't be able to have a normal life any more if you don't take your pills everyday.

The sleeping pills industry is damaging our health by capitalizing on our ignorance, and by distracting people from effective and natural ways to deal with this problem. I had been taking prescription sleep medications [Ambien] for over 5 years. It stopped working and I simply took more. Still did not work. Nights were very difficult - medication put me to sleep but I would wake up after 2–3 hours with a strong sympathetic response (fast pulse, pounding heartbeat, wide awake alert). It was a very difficult cycle to break. I was really in bad shape due to lack of sleep.

After years of struggling I was able to cure my insomnia naturally and pretty fast. I followed the Sleep Tracks sleep optimization program, here is their official web -site if you want to take a look: http://www.insomniacure.net/

Ohhh..and Good Luck!

The same thing happens to me and it is because I breathe primarily through my mouth and not my nose. I keep a humidifier in my room close to the head of my bed and it keeps my mouth and throat moist while I sleep. I also keep a bottled water by the bed.

You could also try having a soothing throat drop before bed.

You need to check the humidity level in your home and an hygrometer will do just that. Sometimes your humidifier attached to the furnace or if you have a portable one is not performing up to recommended levels (i.e. 20-30% very dry, 50-60% normal, 70-80% humid) may cause a dry mouth. If levels are normal and still having dry mouth issues, talk to your doctor because until you know what is causing it, you cannot fix it.

I know what its about...I am breathing through nose throughout the night and throat still get dry! Doctors have no answer and I don't like meds. Jesus is my only hope at this point and I am depending on him for complete healing.

You may be sleeping with your mouth open I have the same problem, and if it is dry in your house then that could be the problem too.

I just moved into a new house and I'm have the same symptoms. It scared me at first. Its so annoying that I want to sleep in my living room. QUESTION: Does it has anything to do with the water heater on the other side of my bedroom wall?