What is the disease of dry mouth

There are always people who report that their mouths are always dry. Sometimes they have to get up several times a night to drink water, and they may have trouble swallowing their normal meals. In this case, you should first consider whether there are other discomforts in your body. If so, you need to consider the cause of the disease. It is best to go to the hospital for some examinations to avoid delaying the treatment of the disease in the later stage. This article introduces the diseases that may occur due to dry mouth. Let’s take a look.

Saliva has the functions of keeping the mouth moist, helping digestion and antibacterial. The normal daily secretion volume of saliva is about 2000-3000 ml. Once you feel dry mouth, it means that there is a change in saliva. In addition to objective factors such as drinking too little water, eating too salty food and a lot of dry food, strenuous exercise and excessive sweating, it is very likely that your body is beginning to warn you. Never ignore the early signs of this disease and go to the hospital for examination immediately to avoid delaying diagnosis.

Diabetes: The typical symptoms of diabetic patients can be summarized as "three mores and one less", namely, drinking more, eating more, urinating more and losing weight. Due to frequent urination, the body loses a lot of water, so it is easy to feel thirsty and like to drink more water.

Chronic mumps: Bacteria can cause chronic mumps, which is characterized by decreased saliva. In addition to dry mouth, there will be a salty taste in the mouth when you wake up in the morning.

Sjögren's syndrome: As an immune disease, if it is not detected and controlled early, it will cause serious conditions in other parts of the body. The main symptoms of dry mouth in this patient are: first, the mouth usually feels extremely dry, and they often have to get up to drink water at night, and have difficulty swallowing meals; second, the tongue and teeth lose the nourishment of saliva, causing changes in the oral environment; finally, the tongue surface is dry and without saliva, the cementum is damaged, and the teeth in the entire mouth are affected almost at the same time, and bad breath occurs.

Hyperthyroidism: Patients with this disease have accelerated energy metabolism: heat production increases and heat dissipation accelerates. This is followed by dry mouth, sweating, heat intolerance, moist skin with increased temperature, enlarged thyroid gland, and exophthalmos.

In addition, dry mouth is also closely related to the following factors, such as mental factors such as tension and anxiety; the glands in the oral mucosa of the elderly atrophy and the decrease in saliva secretion.

No matter what the cause of dry mouth is, you can drink some Chinese medicine soaked in water to relieve the symptoms. For example, take 10 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, 10 grams of Polygonatum odoratum, 10 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, 10 grams of Lilium, etc. to promote body fluid and nourish yin, or take 30 grams of Phragmites australis, 10 grams of Chrysanthemum, 10 grams of Lotus leaf, etc. to clear away heat and dampness.