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What should i do when my newborn child of two weeks has so much saliva and keeps spitting it out?

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Dr. Oscar Novick answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Spitting: Try using the. Bulb syenite given to you andsuck out the mucous from the child's mouth.

Answered 3/28/2014

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