Experts Explain When Dribbling In Your Sleep Could Be A Sign Of Something More Serious

Summary

The last time I had a cold, I woke up with my pillow drenched. It wasn’t sweat from a fever. It was drool, still clinging to the side of my face. Fortunately, the only witness to the deluge on my pillow was my dog, Rusty. If he could talk, he’d probably tell you that I drool even when I’m not sick. As it turns out, occasional drooling is completely normal. “People often drool in their sleep because the body keeps making a normal amount of saliva , but we swallow much less while asleep,” Dr. Cynthia Odogwu , a family and lifestyle medicine physician, told HuffPost. That saliva can leak onto…

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