Re: Drooling

[Guest guest]

Ken, on the other hand had no trouble swallowing consciously up until the

very day he died, but he drooled almost all the time for several years. He

had lost the automatic swallowing reflex along with the blinking reflex and

several others, but when told to do any of them, he had no trouble. it was

not the inability to swallow that made him drool, it was the loss of the

automatic reflex. On demand, he could swallow several pills at once and eat

big hunks of steak.

Barbara

[Guest guest]

This seems to mirror me exactly. Chewing gum makes

swallowing more conscious and that helps. The inside of my

mouth feels foul (that may be a social phobia), I can't smell too well,

did your husband have bad breath (Itry to maintain distance just in case

and use a minty gum.) some mornings I do wake up on a drenched

pillow, other mornings my mouth and throat feel raw - suppose it matter

whether or not I was upright enough and beathed through my mouth or

nose. Blinking is harder to remember, until I can leterally 'hear'

my eyelids close, then drops followed by intentional blinking clears it

up.

At Friday 5/24/02 08:53 AM, you wrote:

Ken, on the other hand had no

trouble swallowing consciously up until the

very day he died, but he drooled almost all the time for several years.

He

had lost the automatic swallowing reflex along with the blinking reflex

and

several others, but when told to do any of them, he had no trouble. it

was

not the inability to swallow that made him drool, it was the loss of the

automatic reflex. On demand, he could swallow several pills at once and

eat

big hunks of steak.

Barbara

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