Symptom: Drooling

Introduction: Drooling

Drooling: Excessive saliva in the mouth. See free access online books about Drooling below. See detailed information below for a list of 105 causes of Drooling, including diseases and drug side effect causes.

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Causes of Drooling:

The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Drooling. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.

• Excessive saliva
  • Difficulty swallowing
  • Pregnancy - pregnancy causes increased saliva in some women.
  • New dentures
  • Withdrawal from drugs that caused dry mouth
  • Rabies - almost always in animals; few human cases of rabies occur.
• Mouth disorders
• Facial paralysis
• Bell's palsy
• Parkinson's disease
• Stroke
• Dysautonomia

See full list of 105 causes of Drooling

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Causes of Types of Drooling:

Review the causes of these more specific types of Drooling:

• Parotid Swelling (10 causes)
• Phlegm symptoms (18 causes)
• Salivary Gland Pain (25 causes)
• Salivary Gland Swelling (24 causes)
• Spitting blood (89 causes)
• Coughing blood (190 causes)
• Hemoptysis (118 causes)

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Drooling: Multiple Symptom Checker

Listed below are some combinations of symptoms associated with Drooling, as listed in our database. Visit the Multiple Symptoms Checker, to add and remove symptoms and research your condition.

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Multiple Symptom Checker Combinations

• Drooling and Mouth symptoms (90 causes)
• Drooling and Respiratory symptoms (71 causes)
• Drooling and Lung symptoms (64 causes)
• Drooling and Bleeding symptoms (63 causes)
• Drooling and Breathing symptoms (62 causes)
• Drooling and Cough (62 causes)
• Drooling and Nerve symptoms (61 causes)
• Drooling and Bloody sputum (60 causes)
• Drooling and Breath symptoms (60 causes)
• Drooling and Coughing blood (60 causes)
• Drooling and Hemoptysis (60 causes)
• Drooling and Sputum symptoms (60 causes)
• Drooling and Wet cough (60 causes)
• Drooling and Head symptoms (60 causes)
• Drooling and Pain (60 causes)
• Drooling and Sensations (56 causes)
• Drooling and Breathing difficulties (53 causes)
• Drooling and Face symptoms (50 causes)
• Drooling and Muscle weakness (46 causes)
• Drooling and Fatigue (45 causes)

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Causes of General Symptom Types

Research the causes of these more general types of symptom:

• Mouth symptoms (1788 causes)
• Throat symptoms (1143 causes)
• Head symptoms (3858 causes)
• Face symptoms (2766 causes)

Causes of Similar Symptoms to Drooling

Research the causes of these symptoms that are similar to, or related to, the symptom Drooling:

• Saliva symptoms (105 causes)
• Facial paralysis (58 causes)
• Mouth symptoms (1788 causes)

Diagnostic Guides for Drooling

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Diagnostic tests for Drooling:

Various tests are used in the diagnosis of Drooling. Some of these are listed below :

• Physical examination
  • High temperature may suggest epiglottitis or rabies
  • Examine for Kayser-Fleisher rings (brown pigmentation in the periphery of the cornea due to copper deposition)
  • Central nervous system examination, including cranial nerves looking for signs of 7th nerve palsy which may be due to brain stem stroke, brain stem tumor or multiple sclerosis
  • Look for signs of Bell's palsy (7th nerve palsy of unknown cause) e.g. unable to wrinkle forehead or close eye forcefully on affected side, unable to whistle or blow out cheeks

See full list of 13 diagnostic tests for Drooling

Diagnosis Checklist: Questions your doctor may ask (and why!)

During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in their assessment of Drooling. Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information you can share with your doctor about your symptoms may help them with their diagnosis. Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:

• How long have you had problems with drooling?
• Are you, or could you be pregnant? - Pregnancy causes increased saliva in some women.
• Have you been bitten in the last 3 months by a dog, cat, fox, , wolf or bat? - may suggest risk of rabies (note: Rabies has never been reported in Australia, New Zealand or Antarctica, but has been in all other continents).
• Have you recently had new dentures? - may cause excess salivation.
• Immunization status? - relevant if considering epiglottitis.

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Diagnosis Checklist: Associated symptoms your doctor may ask about (and why!)

Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse your condition. The symptoms your doctor may ask about (in association with Drooling) may include:

• Fever? - may suggest epiglottitis, rabies.
• Vomiting? - excess production of saliva is a normal response before the act of vomiting.
• Seizures? - Grand mal seizures involve the body first entering a rigid phase, the tongue may be bitten, there is frothing at the mouth and there may be incontinence of urine or feces. This is then followed by a convulsion in which the muscles jerk rhythmically and then the person is drowsy or in a coma for several hours.
• Symptoms of Wilson's disease? - usually a child or young adult that presents with tremor, chorea (non- repetitive abrupt involuntary jerky movements), difficulty speaking, difficulty swallowing, drooling, weakness of limbs, fits, mental deterioration.
• Symptoms of rabies? - e.g. headache, tiredness, abnormal behavior, fever, itching at the bite site and then drooling, fear of water and muscle spasms accompanied by profound terror.

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Stories from Users for Drooling

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Medications or substances causing Drooling:

The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible causes of Drooling as a symptom. Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using, including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.

• Sinemet
• Sinemet CR
• Lodosyn
• Levodopa
• Dopar

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Organs affected by Drooling:

The list of organs typically affected by Drooling may include, but is not limited to:

• Mouth

Detailed list of causes of Drooling

The list below shows some of the causes of Drooling mentioned in various sources:

• Absence of pulmonary artery - coughing blood
• Actinomycetales infection - coughing up blood
• Adenocarcinoma of lung - coughing up blood
• Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar - coughing up blood
• Alpha 1-Antitrypsin Deficiency - coughing blood

See full list of 105 causes of Drooling

How Common are these Causes of Drooling?

This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases, not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Drooling. Of the 105 causes of Drooling that we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:

• 1 causes are "very common" diseases
• 8 causes are "common" diseases
• 1 causes are "uncommon" diseases
• 2 causes are "rare" diseases
• 9 causes are "very rare" diseases
• 92 causes have no prevalence information.

See the analysis of the prevalence of 105 causes of Drooling

Conditions listing symptoms: Drooling:

The following list of conditions have 'Drooling' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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Causes of Drooling Based on Risk Factors

This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Drooling based on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient: