ArticleInternational journal of pediatrics2012
It takes a mouth to eat and a nose to breathe: abnormal oral respiration affects neonates' oral competence and systemic adaptation.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Multispecies Systematic and Critical Review of Intranasal Administration in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Emergency Care: Promising Evidence and Overlooked Challenges.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Pooled it
- Nasal Irrigation in Children: From Pathophysiological Rationale to Clinical Practice.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Know Your Nose: A Narrative Review of the Developmental and Functional Impact and Importance of the Nose, Nasal Breathing and Techniques on Health and Emotional Wellbeing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Infant pigs demonstrate motor adaptation across multiple physiologic functions during feeding in response to dynamic changes in milk flow rate.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2025Article
- Nasal Irrigations: A 360-Degree View in Clinical Practice.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Review
- Heated humidified high-flow nasal cannula: a new conservative approach for neonatal nasal stenosis.European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- Nose vs. mouth breathing- acute effect of different breathing regimens on muscular endurance.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Craniofacial and olfactory sensory changes after long-term unilateral nasal obstruction-an animal study using MMP-3-LUC transgenic rats.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Predicting the clinical trajectory of feeding and swallowing abilities in CHARGE syndrome.European journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- Factors related to mouth breathing syndrome in preschool children and the effects of incompetent lip seal: An exploratory study.Clinical and experimental dental research · 2022Article
- Effects of mouth breathing on maxillofacial and airway development in children and adolescents with different cervical vertebral maturation stages: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2022Article
- The Ogival Palate: A New Risk Marker of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy?Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Thermographic analysis of postoperative changes in the nasal breathing efficiency in infants and young children with unilateral cleft lip.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2021Article
- Influence of mouth breathing on atopic dermatitis risk and oral health in children: A population-based cross-sectional study.Journal of dental sciences · 2021Article
- Influenza-Mediated Lung Infection Models.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019Article
- Association between Mouth Breathing and Atopic Dermatitis in Japanese Children 2-6 years Old: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.PloS one · 2015Article
- Could nasal nitric oxide help to mitigate the severity of COVID-19?Microbes and infectionArticle
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Abstract
Mammalian, including human, neonates are considered to be obligate nose breathers. When constrained to breathe through their mouth in response to obstructed or closed nasal passages, the effects are pervasive and profound, and sometimes last into adulthood. The present paper briefly surveys neonates' and infants' responses to this atypical mobilisation of the mouth for breathing and focuses on comparisons between human newborns and infants and the neonatal rat model. We present the effects of forced oral breathing on neonatal rats induced by experimental nasal obstruction. We assessed the multilevel consequences on physiological, structural, and behavioural variables, both during and after the obstruction episode. The effects of the compensatory mobilisation of oral resources for breathing are discussed in the light of the adaptive development of oromotor functions.
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