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Dry Mouth Causes

What Causes Dry Mouth? -- this question was asked elsewhere by Edwin Scott; reposting here in its proper location: "Lately I've been waking up with a dry mouth. Does anyone know what causes this?"

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Permalink Reply by Mike on December 1, 2009 at 12:50pm

Edwin -- dry mouth is usually an indication of mouth breathing -- opening up your mouth at night and breathing through it instead of/ in addition to your nose. If you're wearing a CPAP mask, this will cause the positive airway pressure to fail by escaping through the mouth, instead of being used to splint open the airway as intended.

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Permalink Reply by 99 on December 1, 2009 at 1:06pm

caused by mouth breathing or even low oxygen as bacterior love a place where oxygen is absent
and is a possible sign of apnea what are your blood oxygen levels

with a dry mouth your breath probable pongs BO