Children sleep spitting foam may be physiological reasons, such as swallowing function is not fully developed, generally can be relieved on their own. There may also be pneumonia or tonsillitis and other pathologic factors.
1. Physiological factors: children’s swallowing function is immature, with the increase of saliva secretion, unable to swallow saliva in time, resulting in sleep spitting foam, generally with the growth of children’s age, sleep spitting foam symptoms can be relieved on their own.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) Pneumonia: upper respiratory tract infections caused by bacteria such as Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus, or viruses such as respiratory syncytial virus and influenza virus can easily lead to foamy spitting and choking in children’s sleep.
(2) Tonsillitis: Inflammation of the kid’s tonsils caused by beta-hemolytic streptococcus, non-hemolytic streptococcus or staphylococcus bacteria and other factors, the enlarged tonsils make swallowing dysfunction, which leads to the child sleep spitting foam.
Children sleep spitting foam, there may be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.