• Question: why are our mouths so dry when we wake up?

    Asked by beth.nicholls to Angela, Claire, Ian, Robert, Sarah on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Angela Stokes

      Angela Stokes answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hi _bethnicholls_
      This is all do with how we are designed. As humans we are designed to breathe through our noses. The air enters the nose, is warmed and moistened by the sinuses and then travels down the throat into the lungs.
      Sometimes we don’t breathe as we are designed to do (eg when we have a blocked nose) and we breathe through our mouths which sends dry and often cold air directly to our lungs which can cause a dry mouth and throat.

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