The causes of spitting in newborn babies include physiologic factors and pathologic factors such as pneumonia and oral diseases.
1. Physiological factors: discharge of amniotic fluid: newborns may enter a small amount of amniotic fluid in the mouth due to the extrusion of the birth canal during labor. After birth, the newborn may clean up the amniotic fluid left in the mouth by spitting.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) Pneumonia: Pneumonia can lead to an increase in airway secretions, so when pneumonia occurs, it manifests itself as more frequent spitting and is accompanied by sneezing, coughing and other symptoms.
(2) oral disease: such as mouth ulcers, gum inflammation, due to inflammation stimulation or bacterial proliferation will lead to newborn spitting increase, and infant swallowing insufficiency, resulting in spitting.
Newborn babies spitting, there may also be other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.