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Feb 10, 2019 at 7:55 pm #3577789
Do you drool when you sleep? I do. To survive inside a plastic tent with a plastic bed and plastic clothing I force myself to sleep on my back. I wish there was a better solution. Is there a better solution?
Feb 10, 2019 at 8:06 pm #3577790As a side-sleeping drooler, I almost always wake up in a puddle. It sucks doesn’t it? While camping, if I have spare clothing, especially a fleece pullover, I use it to cover whatever I’m using for a pillow. If I’m wearing all my clothing, then I use a bandana, which is something I never leave home without. I simply can’t sleep on my back, so that technique doesn’t work for me.
Feb 10, 2019 at 10:19 pm #3577811I stitched a fleece pillow case for the Montbell UL Comfort Pillow. I still side-sleep, snore and drool but the fleece takes care of the mess.
Thanks, Fleece Pillow Case! You are the best!
Feb 10, 2019 at 10:41 pm #3577815One day I looked at my hiking pillow, which doesn’t have any way to hide slobber stains, and then I realized my home pillow must be like 50% spit by now. I decided not to act on that information.
Feb 10, 2019 at 11:34 pm #3577821Keeping your mouth closed while sleeping might help.
I use a socalled “Ruby chin strap” to keep my mouth closed at night to force myself to breath through my nose and therefore mitigate snoring, sleep apnea, etc.
Search on Ruby chin strap and CPAP and you will see multiple offerings. The ones from CPAP.com cost a bit more and last a bit longer.
Feb 11, 2019 at 12:50 am #3577834If your mouth is strapped closed, how do you shout at animals you hear moving in the night?
Feb 11, 2019 at 1:03 am #3577837I’m pretty sure I’d still drool through my closed mouth. I do when I’m concentrating playing my violin.
I’ve used extra clothes for pillow cases, but the drooling sometimes leaves a mark. Maybe I do need a dedicated pillow case.
Feb 11, 2019 at 4:54 pm #3577904@MJH
LOL.Well when I am snoring really loud, I wake up thinking I have heard a bear near my head.
For those other animals, I just wake up and turn on my headlight to see them.
Is that not why we cowboy camp? To be closer to nature, especially in the dark.
Feb 21, 2019 at 3:59 am #3579674I mainly drool at the sight of certain beautiful women.
Even W.C. Fields said, “Of course I like children… 22 year old female children.” Dirty old man! (OOPS!)
Feb 21, 2019 at 7:31 pm #3579791I made a loose fitting surgery mask type of thing from some scrap cuben and some trip tease LineLoc 3’s. Its like a cross between a surgical mask and one of those horse-feed bags. I can drool all night!
Feb 21, 2019 at 8:26 pm #3579799This thread had me thinking about 5 years ago when I would take a couple of Benedryl to help me sleep better when in griz country. I quit doing it when I found that I always had a dry mouth in the morning, and I switched to melatonin. Maybe a certain dosage of an antihistamine (eg – Benedryl) could help reduce the nocturnal slobber fest a wee bit?
Feb 21, 2019 at 9:04 pm #3579802I find the drooling is a function of sleeping with an open mouth. Â When I’m congested, I’m a nocturnal mouth-breather and drool on my pillow (one reason to put my PackTowel on the top of my pillow). Â When my nasal passages are more clear, I don’t drool at night.
Feb 21, 2019 at 9:13 pm #3579804I have a pillow case made from the end of a silk liner. I stuff something inside it (fleece top/trousers/puffy top…) then make a small pillow shape and double up the end so that the side I sleep on has 3 layers of silk. Easy to wash , dries fast enough.
Feb 28, 2019 at 10:02 pm #3581047Seriously though, I carry a light microfiber pillowcase to fit over the top 1/4 of my mattress. Drools can easily be washed out.
Mainly I use it to keep facial oils, sunscreen and mosquito repellant from damaging my mattress fabric. The microfiber dried fast when washed and laid in the sun or clipped on my backpack.
Feb 28, 2019 at 11:46 pm #3581061I wish I had not read these posts.
Mar 1, 2019 at 12:50 am #3581074@ “reduce the nocturnal slobber”
The way my dentist explained to me is that nocturnal slobbering is a combination of 1) sleeping with an open mouth and 2) the nerves inside your mouth sensing the liquid and initiating the semi autonomous response of swallowing.
If my dentist is right, an antihisaimine like benedryl might help if it cleared congestion and enabled you to breath through your nose. Dry mouth is often caused by mouth breathing at night.
Mar 3, 2019 at 12:02 am #3581390Kat, Â Well, now unfortunately you can’t “un-read” this thread.
Life is often messy. “Stiff upper lip and chive on” ;o)But perhaps my pillowcase-over-mattress solution is just me being OCD.
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