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What can you take to dry up saliva?
To reduce saliva, the kinds of foods you can eat are those with a dry texture, such as toasts, saltine crackers, dry cereals, Because foods that are sour or spicy can increase salivation, these types of foods should be avoided.
How does saliva help swollowing?
If you didn't have saliva think of how dry your mouth and throught would be.
What is a hypothesis for how a soda cracker might affect saliva?
The soda in soda crackers will suck up the saliva leaving your mouth dry. Try to whistle after eating a couple of soda crackers!
What makes dry food wet hard and soft?
Saliva.
Your throat feels dry but you have lots of saliva?
The throat may feel dry and the mouth have a lot of saliva because of a condition called the dry mouth. This is usually caused when someone is under deep depression or stress. The condition is treatable.
What is the medical term meaning pertaining to saliva?
Xerostomia is the medical term for a dry mouth.Xerostomia is the medical term for a dry mouth.
How does saliva make it easier to eat a dry biscuit?
Saliva provides water and mucus and makes chewing and swallowing easier .
How can you treat dry mouth?
There are a few ways in which one can treat dry mouth. For example, one can purchase artifical saliva products that will help stimulate the mouth to produce more saliva naturally.
What are two dry mouth symptoms?
Dry mouth is a common (and sometimes severe) problem. It is when the mouth fails to provide enough saliva. Two symptoms include tooth decay, and lack of saliva.
What if salivary glands this did not work?
Well your mouth would be very dry, swallowing would hurt (saliva coats chewed up food, called a bolus, as you swallow it). Digestion of carbohydrates/starch normally begins in the mouth because of salivary amylase in the saliva; this would not happen if there was no saliva
Why are you asked to wash your mouths as soon as sweets are taken?
If not, sugars from your mouth will travel into the horn as part of the saliva. The saliva will then dry, and the sugars will crystallize.
Can you get sick from dry saliva on a licked envelope?
Well I think you can... its still germ infested :)
