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HACTEHA [7]
2 years ago
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jack thomas is a 45-year-old automobile mechanic with a history of throat cancer. jack has just undergone radical neck resection

. as a result of the surgery, jack suffers from xerostomia, a dry mouth condition. he is prescribed pilocarpine therapy. what advice should you give jack regarding the drug therapy?
Medicine
1 answer:
Anna35 [415]2 years ago
3 0

jack suffers from xerostomia, a dry mouth condition and  prescribed pilocarpine therapy. The advice is, he should be cautioned about blurred vision and its hazards.

<h3>What Is Xerostomia?</h3>

Xerostomia is the dry mouth condition when we do not have enough amount of saliva in our mouth, Saliva is produced by salivary glands in the mouth.

Saliva helps in increasing the life of the tooth by neutralizing acids, enhance the ability to taste, limit bacterial growth around the tooth area and wash away any food particles, partial digestion of carbohydrate based food.

The symptoms include dryness or the feeling of stickiness in  mouth, first sign before start developing any other symptoms, also experience thickness in your saliva due to lack of production of saliva in mouth, eventually, the mouth will start to feel thicker.

Bad breathing is the major symptom of Xerostomia caused by the lack of saliva in your mouth as saliva in mouth is capable of washing out any bacteria or food particles, do not enough saliva , the food is going to roast, and you will start experiencing bad breath.

people  can also experience several difficulties  like lack of saliva can also cause difficulty while chewing your food and to swallow it, also  difficulty while speaking due to less lubrication in tongue area from saliva.

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