Can mouth-taping lead to a better night’s sleep?

By Jogai Bhatt of RNZ Mouth-taping is a health practice that involves placing an adhesive tape over your mouth while you sleep at night. Is it a legitimate health practice, or just another fad? Jon has suffered sinus infections every winter since he was a teenager. For more than 15 years, he’s woken up in the middle of the night with a stuffy nose and sore throat, struggling to breathe properly, and never feeling well-rested the next day.

In late 2021, things became particularly bad - Jon suffered a sinus infection which lasted three months. He turned to mouth-taping - a health practice which involves placing an adhesive strip over your mouth while you sleep at night - and, for him, things began to change almost immediately..