Can something as simple as taping your mouth at night provide benefits for sleep apnea, snoring, and bad breath? Read on to learn why it’s not a proven treatment and could be dangerous to your health.

Sleeping with your mouth open may seem harmless, but it can significantly impact your health. While occasional open-mouth breathing, like during a cold, is usually temporary, chronic mouth breathing ...

You already know that getting a good night’s rest is essential for good health. However, mouth breathing can interrupt the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep your body needs to function at its best. Like ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. People have been talking up mouth-taping ...

Three recent studies have found that when untrained bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as part of CPR on people who are in cardiac arrest, it does not improve patient survival rates. In ...

Mouth taping is one of those questionable TikTok health hacks that has seemed to stick around. It's a simple intervention: Place a piece of tape over the mouth and go to bed. The idea is that the tape ...

Breathing through the nose is more beneficial than mouth breathing. Nose breathing filters, heats, and humidifies air as it enters the body. This may reduce the risk of infections and other problems.

An evaluation of 10 previously published studies suggests that a recent fad of taping one’s mouth shut while sleeping to prevent mouth breathing may have little benefit and could pose serious ...

Mouth breathers get a bad rap, especially when it comes to sleep. Luckily, there’s a trend that could save them (and their loved ones) from enduring another night of snoring and bad breath: mouth ...

Rescue breathing is a potentially lifesaving technique. Rescue breathing involves exhaling into the airway and lungs of a person who has stopped breathing. A person performing rescue breathing takes a ...