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what is the correct terminology for drooling? (as in stroke patients)
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In a lifetime clothed in medicine I have never heard any medic call the descriptive scene above..... uncontrolled salivation......Ptyalism (which is a noun not a verb),or sialorrhea.
There surely must be a doctor somewhere, but i have never met him.
In a stroke patient, they cannot swallow their saliva........so they dribble. sialorrhea is the excessive production of saliva, which can be swallowed as is ptyalism.
No as the poster has implied.........stroke patient.....they "dribble."
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In a lifetime clothed in medicine I have never heard any medic call the descriptive scene above..... uncontrolled salivation......Ptyalism (which is a noun not a verb),or sialorrhea.
There surely must be a doctor somewhere, but i have never met him.
In a stroke patient, they cannot swallow their saliva........so they dribble. sialorrhea is the excessive production of saliva, which can be swallowed as is ptyalism.
No as the poster has implied.........stroke patient.....they "dribble."
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