There is always saliva secreted from under the tongue

Drooling is a common phenomenon in life, especially for children, who always drool. Sometimes incorrect sleeping posture can also cause drooling. But if drooling keeps happening and you can't control it, you must go to the hospital to see a doctor, because there may be some disease in the oral system. So why is saliva always secreted under the tongue?

In daily life, some people drool unconsciously. The main reasons are as follows:

1. When you first wear dentures, you will feel uncomfortable and have a noticeable foreign body sensation, which will stimulate increased saliva secretion. The retention of saliva will stimulate the mucous membrane and cause nausea. Mucosal pain, redness, swelling and ulcers can all cause increased saliva secretion.

2. Oral diseases such as caries, acute and chronic inflammation, and periodontal disease.

3. Oral mucosal diseases, such as patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis, herpetic stomatitis, and chronic recurrent aphthous stomatitis. There are too many missing teeth in the mouth, which causes more saliva to flow when speaking and the lips cannot hold it.

4. Alzheimer's disease, cerebral atrophy, and other brain diseases.

5. Any stimulation to the mucous membranes of the digestive tract, such as the esophagus and stomach, can reflexively lead to saliva secretion.

6. The sense of smell, vision and hearing can perceive the color, aroma and taste of food. Eating sour, sweet, bitter and spicy food forms conditioned stimulation, which induces excitement of the saliva secretion center through the corresponding centers and cerebral cortex, causing large amounts of saliva to be secreted.

7. Light can stimulate saliva secretion, while darkness and fear can reduce saliva secretion.

8. Any stimulant can cause increased saliva secretion. In fact, abundant saliva secretion is not a bad thing. Under normal circumstances, 0.5 to 1 ml of saliva should be maintained in the mouth. Saliva has a strong anti-caries effect, but drooling a lot every day without being aware of it is an abnormal phenomenon. You should go to the hospital for examination in time and do not delay the disease. You can go to the hospital's specialist department for examination to identify the specific cause and then make further targeted and effective treatment.