Mouth breathing.

[Xaawotaako]

is mouth breathing a recognized problem in our community. I’ve seen many that have large overbites and as a result they keep their mouths open and have their tongues hanging out a little. Unfortunately this will cause deformation of the jaw and maybe even the face shape. We really need to bring awareness to the negatives of this mouth breathing problem. Not good for brain development as well.

 

[Sigmundd]

I have that problem although i try to close my mouth as much as possible.

 

[balanbalis]

Yep I’ve noticed it in our community as well

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[Neptune]

It's the modern day human diet causing this.

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[balanbalis]

It's the modern day human diet causing this.

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[wonyluvr]

I’ve always breathed through my nose mouth breathing is so uncomfortable idk how people do it

 

[Xaawotaako]

I have that problem although i try to close my mouth as much as possible.

Make sure to breath through the nose.

 

[Sigmundd]

Make sure to breath through the nose.

yh I do most of the time but it's not easy

 

[motivation]

A highly inflammatory soft refined carb rich diet combined with a lack of early orthodontic intervention will do that

 

[caanoshaah]

I made 2 whole thread ab this last year yes this is a problem… I knew I wasn’t crazy

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I don't think most Somalis are mouth-breathers. But it has definitely increased a lot.

Back home, the Westernization of the diet has ruined dental and general health you see a lot more underdeveloped jaws, small palates, etc than in the past when the standard high cheekboned, large jawed faces were common. People used to give their children hard jerk meat to chew on and other things. Now they give them literal mush.

Mouth-breathing usually develops as a habit from childhood due to allergies, etc that block the sinus/nose and the kid will open their mouth to get more air. If it isn't identified and resolved quickly, it ruins the development of the face and causes many health issues. Low Vitamin D which is very common also causes a lack of jaw bone growth and development which ends up in a restricted airway and issues like sleep apnea, etc later on.

This is my speculation but tongue-tie might be more common amongst Somalis- this is also an issue that needs to be addressed.

Symmetry = health. New parents should be aware of the importance of correcting their children's oral habits and monitoring their facial development to insure their kids remain healthy.

 

[caanoshaah]

It's multi-factorial. They grow up eating inappropriate plant-based foods that damage their guts which causes issues like leaky gut which in turn results in a greater susceptibility toward allergies which clogs up their noses when they're little and so they mouth-breath while they sleep. Top that off with more and more hooyos not breast-feeding for long, giving babies junk like formula, not getting enough animal protein and fat in general (have starches and seed oils instead!), soft and not chewy foods... that's how you go from this about 100 years ago to what we have now:



Somalis I think are perhaps extra susceptible, as are many Arabians from what I've noticed, because a great many of our ancestors (the majority) were still eating majority animal-based diets just 100 years as desert dwelling pastoralists. The average nomad's diet was raw dairy with some meat and extremely occasional wild and cultivated fruit and honey for the sparing time those things were even in season and not nearly as sweet and processed as the honey and fruit available now. Some nomads even went their entire lives without ever consuming a grain by-product like canjeero.

No human is but such people are probably especially not well-adapted to be guzzling breakfast cereal, whole-wheat bread, refined carbohydrates and an abundance of vegetables. We're like Pottenger's cats at this point:



But it can be similarly reversed within a few generations of eating our species appropriate diet.

 

[Unicorn]

I feel so called out lol i remember in hs one somali boy asking me why i would have my mouth open i didnt know i did tht.i dont think i do it anymore