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slobbering - when does it stop?

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madamez · 11/10/2006 21:26

Well I've just bought yet another packet of bibs. My boy is 2 now and still slobbering and dribbling like a Cliff Richard impersonator. At what point do kids' mouths dry up a bit? Is it because he's not quite got all his teeth yet?
Other mums at playgroup sometimes look at us a bit oddly because I keep him in a bib all the time, but if I didn't we'd be going through about 3 t-shirts a day.
Any suggestions/commiserations welcomed...

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CrocodileKate · 11/10/2006 21:28

Both of mine stopped as soon as all their teeth were through.

soapbox · 11/10/2006 21:29

Have you checked that he does not have a dairy intollerance? Are there other signs that he might have?

Excess dribbling is one of the symptoms of a dairy allergy. Does he get contact redness where milk/dairy touches his skin?

Snotty nosed a lot of the time?

Prone to ear ingections?

zephyrHellcat · 11/10/2006 21:29

Hiya - my DS is like that as well. He's 2.4 and dribbles an awful lot. When he had a health check with our HV recently she got the speech and language development lady to look him over but she said it's fine, some do it, some don't, he'll get past it. When he was in hospital for something else a month or so back, the registrar noticed that he had very large tonsils so it could well be something to do with that - or not - but the basic view seemed to be it'll pass

zephyrHellcat · 11/10/2006 21:33

Soapbox I never realised it could be a sign of dairy intolerance. I don't think DS is allergic to an extreme as he drinks a lot of milk and eats a fair bit of cheese. However, thinking about it, he takes a cup of milk to bed and in the morning he often has red/dry exzema type skin on the back of his neck.....

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madamez · 11/10/2006 21:35

No signs of dairy allergy or anything actually worrying. It's just like having my own little water feature round the house. I'm a bit of a slobberer myself (at least when sleeping with mouth open) so maybe that's where he gets it from. Oh, I'm sure you all really wanted to know that.
Perhaps I should look on it as an excuse to wear nothing but PVC to playgroup.

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Sunnysideup · 11/10/2006 22:01

one of the children's catalogues sells cowboy style neckerchiefy things that older toddlers can wear instead of bibs, if that would be your style? I think it might have been 'Urchin' but can't remember.

Tommy · 11/10/2006 22:14

someone on here gave me a tip about this.

Try and teach them to drink through a straw as it helps with the dribbling. DS1 has this problem (still - he's nearly 5 -sorry, you don't want to hear that!) but the straw things helps. I can tell him to "suck" when he is dribbling and at elast he knows what I mean!

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madamez · 11/10/2006 22:54

sunnysideup thanks for the suggestion but I generally get bibs from boots or poundstretcher (no matter what I pay they are going to look vile in a month or so). Other poster, I will try the straw tip as it's about time we gave up on spouted beakers anyway.

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