text:  becomes an issue because our mouth and our throat, right, that's what we're using for speech, but those are the same muscles we're using for swallowing. And so that can become an issue. So drooling may be a symptom, choking on your saliva or choking or coughing with foods and liquids. And in fact, aspiration pneumonia, which is just a fancy way of saying we choked on something and it got into the lungs and caused an infection.