Elderly people with sticky mouth can be divided into physiological and pathological manifestations, physiological sticky mouth can take acidic drugs to promote salivary secretion, and pathological need to consider anti-inflammatory drug treatment.
1. Physiological manifestations. Elderly mouth sticky is often due to age, salivary gland gland function decline lead to saliva secretion is too small, you can take vitamin C and other drugs to promote the secretion of saliva.
2. Pathological manifestations. If there is salivary gland inflammation or oral dental periodontal tissue inflammation, will also stimulate the salivary gland follicle secretion of saliva reduction, bacterial infection triggered by inflammation can take antibiotics, such as metronidazole, amoxicillin medication, viral infection caused by parotid inflammation can be taken antiviral medication, such as ribavirin treatment.
The old man’s mouth is sticky to take drugs should first go to the hospital for examination, clear cause in the doctor’s guidance under the use of drugs.