Foaming at the mouth

Introduction Foaming at the mouth refers to the phenomenon that saliva is spit out from the mouth and is a common clinical symptom. This is also the case with other diseases. Usually "mouth foaming" is organophosphate poisoning, because organophosphate poisoning inhibits the sympathetic nerves. Causes pupil contraction, tracheal contraction, and excessive secretion of saliva. When you breathe, there is a lot of saliva, which looks like it is "white foaming at the mouth." However, it may also be caused by seizures. Excessive exercise or excessive excitement may also be caused.

Cause

Epilepsy patients will have foaming at the onset of the disease, and will also appear when poisoning. When the larvae of pork aphids enter the human brain, they begin to have convulsions and nausea. Later, they will have vomiting and foaming. When they are scared, they will be emotional, nervous, overexcited and fatigued when exercise exceeds their body's ability to withstand. , after drinking alcohol, etc., it is easy to cause "immediately wind" to get the wind immediately.

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At the time of diagnosis, observe the patient's pupil size, breathing condition, and consciousness status to determine the cause of foaming.

Differential diagnosis

Foaming of mouth vomiting with poisoning should be differentiated from seizures. Epilepsy is generally dizziness, confusion, upper abdominal discomfort, audiovisual and olfactory disorders. At the time of onset (the seizure period), some patients first make a sharp scream, and then both lose consciousness and fall, have muscle weakness, have a pause in breathing, and the head can be biased to one side. After a few seconds, there is a convulsion, and the convulsions gradually increase. , the number of hours to make the second, the reincarnation of breathing recovery, foaming at the mouth.

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