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ReviewSaudi medical journal2026

Drooling in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Narrative Review of the Current Management Landscape.

Kamel A Alenazi

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Review in Saudi medical journal, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kamel A AlenaziDepartment of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-6294-1621

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children with developmental or neurological disorders, such as cerebral palsy, present with impaired motor function, resulting in impaired swallowing, feeding, and drooling. The prevalence of chronic drooling radically changes from 0.5% in children >4 years to 60% in children with neurological ailments. Drooling can have a serious impact on the quality of life of affected children, which can create a sense of isolation and refusal by peers. In addition, drooling results in not only financial but also considerable emotional turmoil for caregivers of affected children, who are frequently confronted with difficulty managing the underlying neurological impairment of their child. In this narrative review, we expansively address, in addition to prevalence, causative factors, clinical manifestations, and impacts on quality of life, the current management landscape of drooling, which includes rehabilitation and conservative approaches, medical therapy (pharmacological management), and surgical management.

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Cerebral PalsySialorrheaChildHumansPrevalenceQuality of LifeCerebral palsyChildrenDisease managementDroolingNeurodevelopmental disorders

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PMID42761697
PMCPMC13588300

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