“Oral dryness” is medically known as dry syndrome, also known as primary Sjögren’s syndrome. There is currently no specific drug treatment.
Dry syndrome is a kind of dry mouth and dry keratoconjunctivitis coexisting cases, patients often complain of dry mouth can not eat dry food, need to use water, soup to send, can be swallowed; talk for a long time, the tongue rotating inflexible; oral mucous membrane dry pain discomfort; dry itchy eyes, pain, foreign body sensation obvious.
The cause of dry syndrome is still unclear, most scholars believe that it is an autoimmune disease, related to genetic, immune, viral or environmental factors.
There is no specific drug treatment for dry syndrome, and clinically, most of the local treatment is taken to alleviate patients’ symptoms and prevent irreversible damage to teeth and eyes, such as the use of artificial saliva to alleviate oral dryness; the use of artificial tears to alleviate the symptoms of dry keratoconjunctivitis; maintain oral hygiene, gargle with warm salt water to prevent caries, and so on.
Systemic treatment can follow the medical advice to use thymic peptide, by participating in the body’s cellular immune response and play a role, if necessary, can be in the Chinese medicine practitioner under the guidance of the identification of Chinese medicine to regulate the treatment.
Suffering from dry syndrome should consult a doctor in time, improve the examination, make a clear diagnosis, standardize the treatment under the guidance of a professional physician, and avoid self-medication, so as to avoid adverse consequences.