Just as there is no one single answer to what causes dry mouth, neither is there one single solution to dealing with the problem. Dry mouth, known in medical parlance as xerostomia, is essentially a lack of saliva in the oral cavity. It is also known familiarly as pasties or cottonmouth. Some commonly known causes of dry mouth include: Certain diseases such as epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Sjogrens syndrome, Lambert-Eaton syndrome, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, anemia, hypertension and cystic fibrosisSide effects from the use of certain drugs, both prescription and non-prescription.
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