Waking up from sleep with a dry mouth and throat is partly caused by physiological factors and partly related to diseases, such as dry syndrome, diabetes mellitus, mumps, and sleep open-mouth breathing, which can be treated with medication (prednisone, cephalexin, metformin) and surgery.
1. Physiological factors: for example, drinking too little water or eating too salty food will have the corresponding performance, you can drink a moderate amount of water, light diet, without too much intervention.
2. Dry syndrome: Dry syndrome is an autoimmune disease, which can cause dry mouth, dry eyes, dry skin, etc. It can be treated with artificial tears, artificial saliva and other symptomatic treatments, and thymosin, prednisone, tretinoin and other medications.
3. Diabetes mellitus: Diabetes mellitus is a very common cause of the corresponding symptoms, metformin and insulin can be applied to control blood sugar.
4. Mumps: Viral or bacterial infections can cause mumps, which will make the parotid glands produce less saliva and wake up with dry mouth and throat. Ribavirin, cefadroxil and other drugs can be used to treat it.
5. Sleep open-mouth breathing: Adenoid hypertrophy and other reasons lead to sleep open-mouth breathing, which can show that waking up with a dry mouth and throat. Adenoid hypertrophy can be surgically removed to improve sleep mouth breathing.
Waking up with a dry mouth and throat, has not been able to alleviate, need to consult a doctor in a timely manner, a clear cause of the disease, under the guidance of a professional physician standardized treatment. The above drugs need to be used under the guidance of a physician.