Signs & Symptoms

Common Signs & Symptoms in Infants, Children, and Adults:

  • Biting during nursing
  • Bobbing or slipping on and off breast
  • Body tension (tight closed fists)
  • Breastfeeding issues (thrush, milk tongue, clogged ducts, mastitis, bleeding or cracked nipples, vasospasms, “lipstick shape” or flattened nipples after nursing)
  • Breathing sounds (snoring, snorting)
  • Burping difficulties
  • Carseat discomfort/carsickness
  • Clicking sound while eating
  • Colic/Excessive crying/fussiness
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Drooling
  • Eczema
  • Falling asleep quickly while nursing (fists closed and baby seems tense)
  • Food sensitivities
  • Gagging/choking while eating
  • Gassiness/arching when nursing or bottle-feeding/gulping air
  • Gumming/chewing nipple
  • Heart-shaped tongue tip/dent or crease down the tongue
  • Hiccups
  • Milk leaking from mouth while feeding
  • Mom has depression/anxiety
  • Mouth open at rest
  • Nursing abnormally often or long sessions (with short breaks but still unsatisfied)
  • Nursing blister on baby’s lips
  • Oversupply/undersupply
  • Premature self-weaning (before 2 years)
  • Recessed chin/jaw
  • Reflux/silent reflux
  • Sacral dimple/stork bite
  • Shallow latch or poor latch
  • Sleep issues (apnea, mouth breathing, snoring, or sleeping hot)
  • Slow weight gain, weight loss, or excessive weight gain
  • Sounds congested
  • Spitting up excessively/projectile vomiting
  • Sucking on hands, fists, and fingers
  • Torticollis
  • Tremors/involuntary movements
  • Unable to hold pacifier in mouth
  • Upper lip curls inward when latched
  • Allergies/Eczema/Asthma
  • Anxiety or depression
  • Aversive to brushing teeth
  • Bedwetting or issues with toilet training
  • Behavioral issues, meltdowns, ADHD-like symptoms (including ADD/ODD/OCD)
  • Car/motion sickness
  • Changes in head posture (forward head or tipping forehead backward)
  • Chapped lips
  • Choking, vomiting, or gagging on food/liquids
  • Chronic ear infections
  • Chronic sinus infections
  • Clumsiness or affected posture
  • Dental/oral health issues (cavities, premature decay, bad breath)
  • Deviated septum
  • Diagnosis of apraxia
  • Difficulty in school (math, science, spelling)
  • Difficulty swallowing liquids, food, or pills
  • Drooling
  • Flat feet
  • Food issues (falling out of mouth, using fingers, pocketing food, food trapped in cheeks/palate)
  • High palate
  • Insufficient development of the palate (narrow palate)
  • Irritability, anger, or aggression
  • Jaw issues (TMJ, grinding teeth)
  • Malocclusions (overbite, underbite, open bite, overcrowding, crossbite, gap between teeth, inverted V, crooked teeth)
  • Migraines and headaches
  • Often associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
  • Picky eating; food and texture aversions
  • Recessed jaw/chin
  • Scoliosis and torticollis
  • Sensory issues
  • Sleep apnea, snoring, night terrors, nightmares, sleep walking/talking
  • Speech issues; delay or lisp
  • Swollen tonsils and adenoids (chronic sinus/throat issues)
  • Tiring easily while speaking/reading aloud; daytime drowsiness
  • Trouble sleeping; waking up frequently
  • Venous pooling beneath the eyes (dark circles)
  • ADHD/ADD
  • Allergies and sinus issues
  • Anxiety or always feeling highly strung
  • Bladder issues
  • Car/motion sickness
  • Cavities, gum disease, or halitosis
  • Choking on liquids
  • Difficulty or pain opening mouth wide
  • Difficulty swallowing pills
  • Difficulty with dental x-rays
  • Drooling while sleeping
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
  • Facial pain after a long conversation or smiling
  • Food trapping in the palate, gums, or cheeks
  • Gagging if brushing or drinking liquids
  • Grinding teeth
  • Headaches and migraines
  • Issues with food textures
  • Nail-biting
  • Neck, back & facial pain
  • Pain or discomfort with kissing
  • Pelvic floor issues and diastasis recti
  • Sleep apnea
  • Sleep talking
  • Sleep walking
  • Snoring
  • Speech difficulties when talking fast, tired, or with alcohol
  • Swallowing issues (tongue goes forward when swallowing)
  • Sweaty sleep
  • TMJ or clicking in the jaw
  • Tinnitus (ear ringing)
  • Vertigo/dizziness
  • Bunions
  • Crusty or chapped lips
  • Crooked or crowded teeth/needed braces
  • Deviated septum
  • Dowager’s hump
  • Flat feet
  • Forked or scalloped tongue
  • Forward head posture
  • Gummy smile
  • High or narrow palate
  • Horizontal wrinkles on Cupid’s bow’s dimple when smiling
  • “Long face syndrome”
  • “Buck” teeth
  • Narrow or misaligned jaws
  • Overbite, underbite, or open bite
  • Premature wrinkles (especially around the eyebrows)
  • Recessed chin or jaw
  • Scoliosis
  • “Small” mouth
  • Smiling with both upper & lower teeth or lower teeth only
  • Smiling with tongue resting between teeth
  • Torticollis
  • Anxiety & depression
  • Cardiovascular issues
  • Diabetes
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Excessive daytime sleepiness or fatigue
  • Gastric reflux or heartburn
  • High blood pressure
  • Hyperactivity
  • Irritability & moodiness
  • Loud snoring
  • Napping or dozing off
  • Poor memory
  • Restless Leg Syndrome
  • Restless sleep
  • Waking up with a headache
  • Weight gain
  • ADHD
  • Aggression
  • Allergies
  • Alzheimer’s
  • Anxiety
  • Asthma
  • Depression
  • Dementia
  • Diabetes
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Headaches
  • Hypertension
  • Hypothyroidism
  • Obesity
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis
  • Restless Leg Syndrome
  • Snoring

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