How about dry mouth?

Many people actually have xerostomia, and there are many reasons for xerostomia, especially when the weather is dry, it is easy to have xerostomia due to lack of water in the human body, and some people have xerostomia due to endocrine disorders. It's time to take good care of it. What about dry mouth? What are the methods for treating xerostomia?

1, medicated diet prescription treatment

1, almond and ophiopogon drink

6 grams of almond, Ophiopogon japonicus 10 gram. Remove the almond, break the skin, wash the Ophiopogon japonicus, put them into the pot together, add a proper amount of water, turn the pot on low heat, cook for about 15 minutes, filter off the residue, and air for a while, then it can be used as tea substitute. Used for patients with lung yin deficiency. Recommended reading: What about dry eyes? Watch out for dry mouth.

2. Gouqi porridge

Sacrificial rice 30g, japonica rice100g. Wash the rice and glutinous rice, put them into a pot, add appropriate amount of water, bring them to a boil with high fire, and cook them into porridge with low fire. You can take it suddenly or twice a day. It is used for patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency.

3. Sanyao drinks

Adenophora adenophora 10g, Ophiopogon japonicus 20g and Glycyrrhiza uralensis 3g are brewed with boiled water instead of tea.

4. Gouqi tea

20 grams of medlar, brewed with boiling water instead of tea.

2. Symptoms of dry mouth

1, thirsty. In fact, you can know from the name that the most typical symptom of xerostomia is that patients often feel dry mouth, which is mainly caused by too little saliva secretion in the patient's mouth. Mainly manifested as dry mouth, little or no saliva, patients can hardly swallow hard food.

2. bite your teeth. Some xerostomia patients can't get saliva to nourish and gargle because of too little saliva secretion in their mouths. Gradually, the teeth will turn black and even fall off. As a result, I left the remnants of hatred and formed biting teeth.

3, parotid gland swelling phenomenon. Some patients with xerostomia syndrome will also have symptoms of parotid gland enlargement, which will occur several times a year. And as long as a little cold, or fatigue, it is easy to cause symptoms of parotid gland enlargement.

4. Special tongue map. Patients with xerostomia syndrome will also have some special tongue pictures. In addition, the patient's tongue will crack and the taste will gradually decline. Moreover, the patient's tongue will gradually become shorter, making it impossible for the tongue to stick out of the mouth.