Excessive Drooling Of Children Under Five

Excessive Drooling Of Children Under Five

Is there really a connection between Little frequent drooling, with a mother who wishes not accomplished when cravings? Or, just a little early symptoms will grow teeth? Is drooling constant is indicative of a disease? Let's find out more!  Consider what people comment upon seeing the child salivate continuously. Typically, comments that often arise not far from the myths like, "Wow, she definitely had cravings and not accomplished!" Or any other comments, "Gee, would grow teeth, huh?" Really assumption like that?
Drooling (drooling) or in medical terms is called shalore is something that can be explained scientifically. Dr. Conny Cape, Sp.A of Hospital Pantai Indah Kapuk explain, basically several factors ranging from the physiological to the disorder can cause drooling child.

And not all drooling must be addressed with concern. Some even do not cause serious disruption. However, you should note accompanying symptoms of drooling children. "If the drooling is an indication of disease, impaired alertness could create handled from an early age," says Conny.
Drooling is not just a matter of aesthetics. Nor because children like to play with her saliva. Basically, the child drooling because the physiological processes that make saliva spilled out of the mouth.
Actually, everyone has a mechanism to produce and distribute saliva. It's just a shallow oral cavity and the ability to swallow that baby has not been perfect, causing excessive salivation and seemed out of the mouth.

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This is why in general is said there are three causes of drooling, namely excessive production of saliva, inability to swallow saliva, and the inability to retain saliva in the mouth.
"Usually, the child will begin to produce enough saliva to the age of 6 months. This is the phase of preparing the child to get the nutrients from the first solid foods to breast-feeding, "says Conny.
However, at the same time, children do not have the ability to swallow is perfect, so that in certain positions it is hard to keep the saliva in the mouth and drooling.
Positions such as prone, sitting, crawling and lying will trigger more frequent drooling child. At the age of 9 months, usually he has started to control her saliva so it does not spill when sitting and crawling, because the ability to swallow better.
However, when eating certain foods that stimulate saliva, some children could still drooling. And when a child is 3 years old, with the ability to swallow a lot better, he will not dribble again.
One cause of the drooling child is due to the disruption process of swallowing and excess saliva production. This condition can occur when a child is suffering from a disorder, such as the phase will grow teeth, ie when the child was about 6 months.
At that time the child will feel pain around the mouth and a little trouble swallowing. "Usually, if indeed drooling due to teething phase, accompanied by symptoms of teething, such as children like to bite or insert objects into her mouth, and a little fever," said Conny.
Drooling is caused disruption can be associated with severe illnesses such as mononucleosis, pus around the tonsils (peritonsilar abscess), retrofaring abscesses, and tonsillitis.