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Excessive dribbling -3.5 year old

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Pisspoorspeller · 02/04/2020 09:55

Hopefully this gets some traffic!.

Ds is 3.5 (4 in the summer), he's always been dribbly, when he was younger he was constantly cutting teeth and always allocated the dribbling to this, as hes got older hes remained quite dribbly. Over the past 2 weeks (me being at home full time as opposed to at work) I've noticed he's excessively dribbly, it's almost like he can't control his mouth to hold saliva in? I've noticed he tends to spit a little when he talks (always has, but normally when he's really excited).
He's sat eating some peppers at the moment and I can see the saliva pouring out of him. His top is literally drenched (not exaggerating!)

Just wondered if people have had similar with their kids of the same age?. The only thing I can find online points to either babies or strokes :/. Fairly sure he's not had a stroke!. The info on babies suggest a possible tounge tie, and as far as I'm aware he doesn't have one, he speaks normally, can stick his tounge out etc.

Any help on this would be great!. I would try and get hold of a health worker, but I don't have any details for them. Also fairly sure the drs might be busy and not sure if this is trivial or not.

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JiltedJohnsJulie · 03/04/2020 09:55

No idea but mine never dribbled like this. If you are in the UK it might be worth ringing your GP’s practice and asking for the contact details for your HV.

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