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Baby Drool Rash: Causes, Appearance, & Treatment

Babies typically start drooling between three and six months as they become more “oral-centric.” 

While as parents, we typically associate drooling with teething, that’s not the case! Drool typically comes long before your baby’s teeth.

This saliva is important for eating solid foods, swallowing, and digestion (and eventually, protecting their teeth), but excess saliva can also lead to unwanted side effects if allowed to get out of hand. 

Take drool rash, for example.

What Is Drool Rash?

Drool rash is a chapped, dry, and red rash that’s caused by excessive drooling. It typically appears on the mouth, chin, cheeks, or neck of your baby where drool is present. 

Saliva won’t normally cause a rash if left on the skin for brief periods of time and then wiped away. Drool rashes tend to appear when the skin is left wet for long periods of time. This extended exposure to wet saliva makes the skin irritated.

What Does Drool Rash Look Like?

Drool rash appears as red, dry, and inflamed skin. It can also cause small, red bumps to appear. 

Sound familiar? Drool rashes can look a lot like eczema and cause confusion for concerned parents. Let’s break down the difference.

Drool Rash vs. Eczema

Drool rash (or any rash) and eczema can be difficult to differentiate. That’s partly because eczema shows up in several different forms. Two types of eczema you may confuse drool rash with are contact dermatitis and atopic dermatitis. 

Drool Rash vs. Atopic Dermatitis

Atopic dermatitis is the most well-known and recognized form of eczema. Doctors and researchers don’t know the exact cause of atopic dermatitis, but it’s thought to be a combination of factors affecting the immune system and skin microbiome — like genetics and environment.

Atopic dermatitis appears as a red, dry, itchy rash just like a drool rash can; however, unlike drool rash, it’s often located on the cheeks, forehead, or scalp and in the creases of the elbows and knees… but it can appear anywhere.

Drool Rash vs. Contact Dermatitis

Contact dermatitis is a form of eczema caused by irritation from an external factor — like poison ivy, nickel, chemicals in household products, etc. 

For that reason, drool rash is actually a type of contact dermatitis. In the case of drool rash, saliva is the external factor!

Not all forms of contact dermatitis show up on the skin alike. Depending on the irritant, some people may experience blistering with contact dermatitis. However, babies experiencing drool rash shouldn’t have blisters.

Causes of Drool Rash

Drool rash is always caused by saliva sitting on a baby’s skin for too long. However, this can happen for a few different reasons, including:

Teething

Babies drool long before their teeth start coming in, but we can’t deny that saliva does increase during the teething stage.

When your baby’s teeth start breaking through the gums, your baby may also put their fingers or fist in their mouth and suck on toys, which can smear drool over their face, neck, and chest.

If you’re not sure whether your baby is about to get their first tooth or not, other signs of teething include swollen gums and fussiness.

Pacifiers

Pacifiers are a great and effective way to calm your baby. When your baby is heavily drooling, though, it’s important not to keep your baby’s pacifier in their mouth for extended periods of time. If they sleep with a pacifier, wipe their mouth when they wake up.

Otherwise, check beneath their pacifier throughout the day and wipe away any excess drool around the mouth area. Pacifiers can hold saliva against the mouth and surrounding skin longer than it should stay there.

Food

Babies are messy eaters. Often, they end up with food left all over their faces. When that food dries and sits too long on the skin, it can also contribute to drool rash.

While it can seem harmless to leave that food around the mouth, be sure to gently wipe your baby’s mouth after feeding to help prevent a rash from forming.

Drool Rash Prevention

Understanding what causes drool rash can help you better prevent it…

• Gently blot any saliva from your baby’s mouth and cheeks as soon as you see it.
• Use a bib to help protect your baby’s chest (wet clothes can cause drool rash on the body).
• Gently blot your baby’s face and neck after feedings and naps to get rid of drool.
• Don’t let food sit on their face after meals.
• Give your baby a teething ring or cold washcloth if excess drool is caused by teething.
• Use mild and fragrance-free detergents, soaps, and lotions… Harsh, scented products can worsen your baby’s rash.

Drool Rash Treatment

Most of the time drool rash will go away without any intervention from a doctor within a week of it first appearing. However, to help this healing process it’s important to implement good hygiene practices and choose the best skincare products for your baby.

Wash the Skin Daily

Gently wash your baby’s mouth and neck with warm water after feedings and nap time. Be sure to use a clean cloth and look at the folds in your baby’s neck for any saliva that may have fallen from their mouth.

Most importantly, don’t leave the area wet! Pat the skin dry with a soft blotting motion.

Use Petroleum Jelly

After your baby’s skin is dry, apply petroleum jelly to their rash. Petroleum jelly is made of a combination of mineral oils and waxes and can help heal minor skin irritations while moisturizing the skin. 

However, make sure the skin is cleaned and dry before applying petroleum jelly so you don’t trap in any bacteria that can negatively impact the skin.

Use Fragrance-Free Products

Using gentle, fragrance-free products on your baby is always wise. Babies have incredibly sensitive and absorbent skin that can easily become irritated by harsh chemicals.

When your baby is already experiencing skin irritation, the reaction to fragrances and other aggressive skincare ingredients only becomes amplified.

See a Doctor

Most drool rashes will heal with at-home treatment. However, if you’ve been managing your baby’s drool rash for a week or more — or if the skin around your baby’s mouth or neck is cracked and painful, see a doctor to determine if a more aggressive treatment plan is needed. They may be prescribed a medicated cream, such as a hydrocortisone cream. 

Conclusion

Babies drool! That’s a fact of life. If your baby ends up developing a drool rash, don’t worry. This is more common than you may think.

Chances are by blotting your baby’s saliva and avoiding additional irritation to the rash, your baby’s skin will heal within the week.

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Shedding of a small child is a fact in the life of new parents: it happens quite often, and there are even special wipes designed to clean it. But when your baby seems to be spitting all the time, it’s understandable if you’re wondering if this is normal. Luckily, experts say, in most cases, you don’t have to worry about kid leagues.

How often or how often a baby spit up varies from child to child, says Dr. Jeffrey Bourne, pediatrician at Santa Monica, California Medical Center. In general, he says, spitting in babies is “very, very common and generally not a cause for concern. ”

Whether your baby has a tendency to spit up or you just want to be prepared for what to expect in the first few months, here’s what you need to know:

Why do babies spit?

To understand why babies spit, it is worth knowing what spitting is. Spitting up is different from vomiting. Vomiting is the forceful expulsion of something from the body, while regurgitation is usually “gentle regurgitation,” says Dr. Ashanti Woods, a pediatrician in Baltimore. In addition, spitting up in a child is usually in a small amount, while vomiting has a larger volume.

There are several reasons why babies spit up:

? There is reflux. Babies often spit up due to gastroesophageal reflux, a condition in which ingested food returns from the stomach and exits the mouth and nose, Woods explains. A valve in the lower esophagus usually prevents this, but it still doesn’t work very well in newborns. So food is coming back, Bourne says. As this mechanism matures, infants tend to spit up frequently.

? He drank too much milk. If a newborn weighs about 3 kilograms, the stomach has a capacity of about 100 ml. “If you feed your baby 120 ml of milk per feeding, there is a good chance that the baby will spit it out,” says Dr. Born.

? He doesn’t like formulas. According to Dr. Woods, if your baby is formula-fed, he may not be intolerant to the formula you are using. If you suspect this is the cause of your baby’s spitting up, talk to your pediatrician about changing the brand of milk.

? Something in your diet does not tolerate it. If you’re breastfeeding, it’s possible that something you’re taking, like too much caffeine, is increasing the amount of spitting up, Dr. Woods says. But first, talk to your child’s pediatrician before dropping any diet, especially since there are many other reasons why your child may spit up.

When do babies stop spitting?

Babies don’t spit forever – something to keep in mind if you feel like all your clothes have been spit out in the laundry basket. While all babies are different, Dr. Bourne says that most babies stop spitting up by six months: “It usually gets less and less over time,” he says.

The child spits a lot: how normal is this?

Children’s saliva should usually be a few tablespoons or less than 25 ml, says Dr. Woods. If your baby spit up more or spit up after every feed, tell your pediatrician. There is probably nothing to worry about – just some babies spit more often than others. “If your child is still gaining weight, this is usually not a cause for concern,” says Dr. Born.

When does a child get annoyed by spitting up?

Call your pediatrician if your child is lethargic, not gaining weight, or has blood in their sputum. If a greenish tint appears, you should also consult a doctor, as in rare cases it can signal a blockage in the baby’s gastrointestinal tract. If the baby spits and it seems that it bothers him, it is also worth calling a doctor – acid in saliva can cause discomfort.

Reduce the amount of spitting up in the baby

If your baby is spitting up a lot, you may need to do a little detective work to find out what is causing it. Here are some methods that can help you and make your child feel better:

? Hold your baby face down at a 30 to 45 degree angle after feeding. “This is often the position you hold the baby in to burp,” says Dr. Bourne. Keep your baby on your shoulder in this position for 15 to 20 minutes after a feed to help reduce spitting up.

? Try to feed your baby less at once. If he looks hungry, you can make up for it by feeding him more often, says Dr. Woods.

? Consider changing the formula. It is possible that another brand will have a better effect on the baby.

If these methods don’t work or you’re still worried about your baby spitting up, talk to your pediatrician about the next steps. But usually you have nothing to worry about. “Most babies do fine without changing,” says Dr. Woods, “you may have to wait until he gets past this period.”

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Although most people find the thought of saliva disgusting, saliva plays a vital role in our lives. This allows us to comfortably chew, swallow and digest. It fights bacteria in the mouth and elsewhere, as well as leading a bold fight against cavities. Here are 11 facts that might make you reconsider the unsung hero of bodily fluids: spit.

1. Spitting mostly water.

Saliva is 99 percent water. The other 1 percent is made up of electrolytes and organic matter, including digestive enzymes and small amounts of uric acid, cholesterol, and mucins (mucus-forming proteins).

2. There is a medical standard for how much saliva you should drink.

Healthy people accumulate 2 to 6 cups of saliva per day. And that’s without the stimulation from activities like eating or chewing gum, which open up the floodgates for saliva [PDF].

3. Saliva production has a circadian rhythm.

Your body usually produces the most saliva in the late afternoon and the least at night. Salivation is controlled by the autonomic nervous system (like your heartbeat), meaning it is an unconscious process.

4. There are five different types of spit.

Salivation consists of five distinct phases, most of which are caused by the passage of food through the body. Not all of them are good. The first type of salivation is head when you see or smell something delicious. B Buccal Phase is the body’s reflex response to the actual presence of food in the mouth (which aids in swallowing). In the esophageal includes stimulation of the salivary glands as food moves through the esophagus. In gastric The phase occurs when something irritates your stomach – for example, when you are about to vomit. B intestinal This phase is triggered by the fact that food that does not suit you passes through the upper intestine.

5. Saliva can fight bacteria.

It is not in vain that the phrase “lick one’s wounds” appeared. Saliva is full of white blood cells that fight infection. And, according to a study published in the 2015 journal Blood , neutrophils – a type of white blood cell – are more effective at killing bacteria if they come from saliva than from any other part of the body. Thus, adding saliva to a wound gives the body a powerful boost as it fights infection.

6. Saliva protects you from caries.

Calcium, fluoride and phosphate in saliva strengthen your teeth. Saliva also fights cavities-causing bacteria, washes away food debris, and neutralizes plaque acids, reducing tooth decay and cavities. That’s why chewing gum has been approved by dentists: chewing increases salivation, thereby protecting oral health.

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7. If you want to try something, you will need a skewer.

Saliva acts as a taste dissolver, delivering dissolved taste to taste bud sites. It also keeps these receptors healthy by preventing them from drying out and protecting against bacterial infection. Many people who suffer from dry mouth (or xerostomia ) find that their sense of taste is affected by a parched mouth. Since dry mouth is a side effect of many medications, scientists have developed artificial saliva sprays that mimic the lubricant of real saliva.

8. Saliva exchange exchanges millions of bacteria.

One study found that a 10-second kiss involves the transfer of about 80 million bacteria.

9. People are not born to drool.

Babies don’t drool until they are 2-4 months old. Unfortunately, they also don’t really know what to do with their saliva. They cannot fully control the muscles in their mouth until they are about two years old, so they cannot swallow it effectively. That’s why we invented breastplates.

10. Stress can keep you from spitting.

The fight-or-flight response of the body is designed to give you the energy and strength you need to get through a near-death experience, such as running into a bear or speaking at work. Your blood pressure rises, your heart beats faster, and your lungs take in more oxygen. Now is not the time to sit back and digest food, so the digestive system slows down production, including saliva.

11. Lack of saliva was once used as an admission of guilt.