Hello all - to add to Catherine's info
"If the palate is high, the dome of the palate is at the expense of the
nasal air space (the space behind the nose and over the mouth).  This
also reduces the amount of air that can be exchanged.
...This disturbed sleep is
what leads to the bedwetting, the person does not arouse to know they
have to go and so they can't get up and use the bathroom.  Perhaps there
is a brief moment of unconsciousness as well that might lead to loss of
bladder control."

There is another school of thought that chronic mouth breathing leads to
incorrect carbon dioxide levels in the blood which worsens asthma and causes
almost catatonic sleep - my family has bedwetters, and these are kids that
you can drag out of bed without them waking up.  Chiropractic and Buteyko
breathing method (latter is now recommended medical practice in Australia)
both aim at correcting the CO2 imbalance.

Sorry to be (slightly?) off topic,

Michelle Bentley, CLE

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