meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
More Plates More Dates

Deviated Septum Or Inflamed Turbinates The Cause Of Mouth Breathing? | ENT Doctor’s Opinion On Mewing

More Plates More Dates

More Plates More Dates

Health & Fitness, Education, Science, Self-improvement

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Following up on my previous post where I talked about my deviated septum, this topic extends by finding an answer to the cause of my mouth breathing. During my last meeting with my ear nose and throat doctor I asked if the main cause of my mouth breathing was my deviated septum, or the inflammation of my turbinates.… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Based on what you've seen in my nasal passage, is it more of an issue of deviation or like inflammation of the tissue kind of thing?

0:08.5

Because I think it's weird how throughout the day I can have one side good and then the other side's like 80% inhibited.

0:16.7

And then it just jumps back and forth between.

0:19.2

Like they're obviously both capable of being open

0:21.7

but they just kind of like switch and I don't know so when we saw you you did have the

0:30.6

intermediate septum moderately deviated off to the left we have these bones on the side of our nose called

0:36.2

turbinates and the

0:38.0

turbinates are what grow and shrink throughout the day and there's always ways to help

0:42.0

shrink that. You need to have a decent response to it. Right now the left side is

0:50.9

completely plugged. But if you want definitive treatment then you get surgery in hospital, they fix the middle part

0:57.8

of those, and they shrink the bones on the side of the nose.

1:00.6

The ones that we do in office, we just shrink the bones in the side of the nose.

1:05.0

So how is it like jump back and forth though?

1:08.0

It's determinants.

1:09.0

So the bones in the side of the nose the

1:10.9

thin bones thick lining they grow and shrink your response to allergies or

1:14.7

irritants and they have a cycle between them so does that mean even be humidified

1:19.8

your nose and it regulates air flow and all that stuff so is that a definitive

1:23.5

measure that somebody who has that has some sort of allergic response to something?

1:28.3

Some sort of inflammatory response generally. So it can be allergies or it can be irritants.

1:34.3

Allergies are things like molds and grasses and weeds and all that type of stuff.

1:38.3

Irritants are things like smoke or barometric pressure changes, weather changes,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from More Plates More Dates, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of More Plates More Dates and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.