What’s the best way to fix drooling in Parkinson’s?

Drooling, also known as salivation, is one of the common non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease patients, and it is common to see outpatients, with handkerchiefs and with toilet paper. What is a good way to solve it? The reason for this is not excessive salivary secretion, which is mainly due to Parkinson’s disease involves the muscles of the mouth, pharynx and palate, making it a motor disorder, the muscles responsible for swallowing are stiff, and the patient’s conscious or unconscious swallowing is reduced, resulting in the accumulation of saliva caused by. What we usually call saliva refers to the saliva secreted by the three pairs of large salivary glands in the oral and maxillofacial region, i.e., parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands, as well as small glands all over the mucous membranes of the lips, cheeks, palate, and tongue, etc. When these salivary fluids enter into the oral cavity, it can play a role of moistening the oral cavity and helping to digest the food, etc., which is known as “saliva” and commonly known as “drool”. Saliva”, commonly known as “saliva”. Parkinson’s disease patients of the head, face and mouth into the swallowing muscles of the motor function is also impaired, can not be in time to their own secretion of saliva naturally swallowed, a large number of accumulation from the mouth can not be completely closed out of the mouth and lead to non-stop drooling phenomenon. In general, the patient will also have slow speech, low and monotonous voice, difficult to hear the speech disorder. In advanced Parkinson’s disease, excessive salivation can cause severe aspiration pneumonia due to severe swallowing difficulties. Then the problem of drooling brings a lot of trouble to patients and their families, you can try the following methods to solve it. 1, according to the patient’s condition, give appropriate administration of benzo hydrochloride (commonly known as Antan), the drug is good for trembling, but the side effects are many, causing dry mouth, which happens to have a very good inhibition of drooling. But must be based on the patient’s condition, by the doctor to guide the use of drugs, patients and their families do not take medication without authorization. 2, adhere to the rehabilitation training, conscious swallowing saliva, exercise dysphagia.