Dry mouth at night may be too little water, diabetes, rhinitis, dry syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux and other diseases caused by the cause of the need for treatment, drugs, including hypoglycemic drugs, anti-allergy drugs.
1. Drinking too little water: lack of drinking water for a long time, or eat foods with high salt content, leading to dry mouth and bitter mouth at night when the body is dehydrated during sleep, in addition to the high temperature of the sleeping environment will also be dehydrated because of excessive sweating. This situation does not need to take medicine, drink more water, eat less salty food can be.
2. Diabetes: high blood sugar patients with a corresponding rise in urine sugar, urine osmolality increased resulting in osmotic diuresis, water loss through the urine and water shortage, so it will be dry mouth at night and bitter. You can eat metformin, glipizide, dagliflozin and other hypoglycemic drugs treatment.
3. Rhinitis: due to inflammatory lesions such as nasal mucosa exudation, edema, bleeding, resulting in narrowing of the nasal cavity, the patient’s nocturnal compensatory open-mouth respiration, the moisture in the mouth air-drying and leading to dry mouth and bitter mouth. You can take loratadine, chlorpheniramine maleate, ipratropium bromide, hydroxymetazoline and other medications.
4. Dry syndrome: Due to autoimmune dysfunction, the salivary glands are mistakenly attacked by the immune system, and the synthesis of saliva is reduced, so the mouth will be dry and bitter. You can take prednisone, hydroxychloroquine, methotrexate, azathioprine and other drugs to treat it.
5. Gastroesophageal reflux: stomach acid reflux into the oral cavity at night leads to mucosal erosion and dry mouth and bitter mouth. You can take omeprazole, domperidone, bismuth pectin, aluminum hydroxide and other medications.
Pay attention to the use of drugs under the guidance of a physician.