It can also cause noisy breathing,
called stridor, which can be upsetting.
She is not in any respiratory distress but a soft
inspiratory stridor
is audible and she is drooling saliva.
If
laryngeal stridor
develops, allow a few breaths of air and then continue more slowly.
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