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Sialorrhea

What is it?

It is when drools and/or produce excess saliva that you cannot control because one salivary glands are inflamed or still developing as in babies or sucking on thumb (young children).

Cause

Syndromes

Medication i.e.

  • Antipsychotics i.e. Aripiprazole, Clozapine, Risperidone
  • Cholinergic agonists used in Alzheimer’s and myasthenia gravis  i.e. Pilocarpine, Pyridostigmine
  • Ketamine
  • Potassium chlorate
  • Heavy metal toxins i.e. mercury and thallium

Symptoms

  • Chapped lips?
  • Skin which is soft damage  around the mouth (angular cheilitis)?
  • Red and/or white patches in mouth and tongue, lips or gums?
  • Bad breath?
  • Difficulty swallowing?
  • Choking?
  • Altered sense of taste and/or change of sense of taste?
  • Speech problems?
  • Rash on chin?

Complications /Information to beware of/General tips:

Do not wait, phone for an ambulance if have or develop:

  • Dehydration
  • Pneumonia
  • Breathing difficulties
  • Trouble opening your mouth because of swelling
  • Cannot drink liquids instead are drooling excessively
  • Loose movement on one side of your face
  • Lump is growing and not going down
  • Symptoms have not improved after seeing a dentist/medical doctor or after a course of antibiotics.

This condition can lead to:

This condition may show similar symptoms to:

  • Irritant contact cheilitis (Lip Sucking)
  • Temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders
  • Mumps 
  • Mouth cancer
  • Cysts (tiny fluid-filled sacs)
    • Babies sometimes are born with cysts in the parotid gland because of problems related to ear development before birth.
  • Benign tumours  (noncancerous tumours)
    • Salivary (benign- not cancerous) gland tumours occur in the parotid gland.
    • Most common type of benign parotid tumour usually appears as a slow-growing, painless lump at the back of the jaw, just below the earlobe.
  • Malignant tumours (Cancerous tumours)
  • Proteus syndrome (Salivary gland tumour known as monomorphic adenoma and meningioma)
  • Sjogren’s syndrome
  • Sialadenosis (Salivary glands become enlarged without cause i.e. infection, inflammation or tumour)
  • Exostosis (Osteoma)

Please talk to your healthcare professional (i.e. Medical Doctor/Pharmacist) for further advice

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