What disease does drooling while sleeping indicate?

Inflammation of the mouth stimulates the body to produce saliva, causing pain, leading to drooling while sleeping.

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According to Health Sina, frequent drooling, especially in adults, should be taken seriously because it can be a sign of a number of diseases:

Stomatitis: When you have stomatitis, it stimulates saliva production, causing pain, leading to drooling. If the disease is mild, treating the inflammation will stop the drooling.

Facial neuritis: After a stroke, flu or cold face can cause drooling while sleeping. People with this disease often have strabismus, crooked mouth and other symptoms, need to be treated early.

Mental Overload: Excessive mental activity, excessive fatigue or taking certain medications can cause autonomic nervous system dysfunction, causing parasympathetic nervous system excitement to occur during sleep, causing the brain to send wrong signals causing drooling. In this case, it is necessary to rest more, adjust physical and mental activities appropriately to avoid reducing immunity. Otherwise, this condition will lead to many other diseases.

Risk of stroke: If you suddenly start drooling while sleeping, and the next morning when you look in the mirror and smile, your mouth is crooked, or you have a headache along with other symptoms, it means you are at risk of having a stroke. In this case, you must go to the hospital immediately.

Atherosclerosis: Atherosclerosis can lead to cerebral and muscular ischemia, lack of oxygen, leading to facial muscle relaxation leading to drooling during sleep. This condition in the elderly is often accompanied by weaknessability to swallow. Therefore nOld people often droolwhen sleeping, even if there is no crooked mouth, strabismus or other symptoms, you should go to the hospital for examination as soon as possible.

According to VNE