Dr. Andy Galpin

Try to get as much of that cleared out of there as possible before the nighttime starts, right?

Now, you'll particularly see this with people who are like, my nose is fine throughout the day, and I just wake up at night.

It only happens at night, only happens in my bedroom.

Part of that's gravity.

Part of that's physically gravity, right?

Like you're laying up here or you're standing up here, all right, and you go backwards, and then it's going to sit there.

Like part of it is that.

So number one, do all the things I just talked about, cleaning the air out of there.

If you want to get an air filter and then specifically put it in or above or around your bedroom, that is a great option.

So you can go there as a next step.

Third step is you can just use Flonase.

You can use a very simple nasal dilator.

So whether this is actually like a nose strip that you can put on, we use a bunch of different companies for this, or an actual injection, again, like a Flonase, and you can squirt it in your nose before bed, dilate your nose, you can stop having problems that way.

So those are three or four different things you can try.

We've used and we'll use all those things pretty consistently, and they're all pretty beneficial and they work pretty well.

There's some amount of just like morning gunk you'll have.

That's normal, that's okay.

But if this is consistently waking up with dry mouth and nose completely clogged, then I would do all those steps.

Past that, then you've got to really start thinking about special pillowcases and different solutions like that.

But those are more expensive.