Excessive saliva

[pastor]

Hoping someone may have some pointers for my mom.
She has bulbar onset that his seemed to ramp up over the last couple of weeks. She is experiencing excessive slobbering. It gets worse when she tries to speak it spews from her mother.

The specialist prescribed some drop (can't remember name) they worked the first couple of times she took them but not anymore.

Any advice of how to control the saliva or slobbering

 

[Nikki J]

Robinul has worked really well for this for my sister

 

[zoohouse]

My husband was having this problem and my friend, whose son has cerebral palsy brought some drops over. They are atropine ophthalmic drops, but I give him 2 drops under his tongue and it dries his secretions up so that it doesn't bother him as much. I called his doctor and got a prescription for his own. So to clarify it is an Atropine 1% solution that optometrist use, but a couple of drops can be put under the tongue and absorbed that way. Atropine is a drug that is used as well to speed up the heart, but that is in a concentrated form, and intravenous so it does not affect the heart rate at this dose.
I have also heard of Botox injections to decrease salivation. Talk to your doctor about it.

Paulette

 

[pastor]

Thanks Ladies. Going to call her dr about those

 

[hjlindley]

I take Mucinex during the day, amitriptyline at night, and chewable papaya enzymes for the thick mucus. I have several good side effects from the amitriptyline. I sleep like a baby, it dries my mouth out at night, it helps with my peripheral neuropathy, and makes a small dent on my depression. Good luck. But do talk to your doctor, there are many medications at drive saliva. Several people use radiation and some use Botox.
Hollister

 

[pastor]

Thank you Hollister!
My mom mentioned that she would like to try mucinex but I was concerned that it brings mucous up and she doesnt have the ability to cough it up.
I will definitely check with her dr though.

 

[ECpara]

Pastor, if it gets really bad, like my husband's saliva, she can get Myobloc injections in her salivary glands. He gets them every two months and they help so much! Down the road, if it gets any worse, there's the option of radiation, but that will destroy the glands completely and can cause the opposite....dry mouth. Tom is going to just stick with the Myobloc injections.