In the winter, the climate becomes drier and drier, people will feel dry mouth to a greater or lesser extent, and even more with bitter mouth, bad breath, mouth ulcers, constipation and other symptoms occur.
Why is it so easy to feel dry mouth in winter? On the one hand, the climate becomes dry and the water evaporates too quickly, aggravating the original dry mouth to make the symptoms more obvious; on the other hand, the autumn and winter seasons are converted, and the dryness and evil consumption of yin are also easy to cause a variety of uncomfortable symptoms such as dry mouth and dry tongue.
Dry mouth is not an independent disease, it is a group of disorders that include both physiological and pathological causes.
Physiological dry mouth mainly includes: less daily drinking water, and eating too salty or a lot of dry food; the elderly have various functions degenerated, the secreted fluid glands have atrophied, saliva has decreased and there are different degrees of dry mouth; after exercise, there is no timely replenishment of water, and dry mouth will also occur.
Pathological dry mouth is most commonly caused by a cold due to a viral infection. In addition, high fever, diarrhea, open mouth breathing, etc. caused by loss of water in the body caused by dry mouth; long-term anxiety, depression, insomnia appear bitterness, dry mouth; long-term taking of blood pressure and other drugs caused by drug dry mouth.
Dry mouth and dry mouth that occur in systemic diseases, such as patients with Sjögren syndrome, which destroy the structure of salivary glands and tear glands due to immune abnormalities in the body, and dry mouth and eyes; diabetics cause increased plasma osmolality due to high blood sugar, and tissue dehydration cause dry mouth.
The causes of dry mouth are complex, and the increasing amount of water to alleviate dry mouth is only alleviated for those who drink too little or too much water, while dry mouth caused by various diseases is often difficult to work. Remind everyone that dry mouth can not be relieved in the short term, especially if the symptoms exceed three months, you should go to the hospital for a comprehensive examination.
So, how to prevent dry mouth and tongue in winter? Keep your mouth clean and rinse your mouth frequently to reduce the possibility of dental caries and secondary oral infections; prevent colds, maintain optimism, relieve work tension and pressure, avoid anger, anger and irritability; dry in winter, pay attention to eating more lung-nourishing foods and fruits, such as honey water, ginseng fruit, sydney pear, grapes, etc., which can not only alleviate dry mouth and tongue, but also prevent constipation; keep going to bed early and getting up early, participate in outdoor sports exercise, dietary rules, quit smoking, and avoid alcoholism.
Several dietary remedies are recommended here to relieve the symptoms of dry mouth in winter.
Lotus seed drink: guiyuan, lotus seed, American ginseng, jujube, decoction water drink, suitable for tonic qi and yin.
Longan Ginseng Drink: Longan meat, American ginseng decoction, take before bedtime, suitable for dry mouth with insufficient heart and yin.
Snow ear, quail egg sugar water: snow ear, quail egg fried water with rock sugar, xuan lung nourishing yin shengjin, suitable for lung yin deficiency dry mouth.
Dendrobium porridge: Dendrobium washed into the pot, add water to boil, take the juice and rice to cook porridge, suitable for spleen and stomach yin deficiency mouth dry.
Snow ear apple lean broth: take snow ear, apple (peeled core) to cook lean broth, clear heat and nourish the lungs, suitable for lung yin deficiency mouth dry.
Sand ginseng lily wheat winter tea: sand ginseng, lily, wheat winter, quail egg, boiling water and rock sugar, has the effect of promoting lung nourishment and yin.
In addition, goji berries have a sweet taste and flat nature, which has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys, improving the eyes, and quenching thirst, and the drug can nourish the yin of the liver and kidneys, and can effectively eliminate or alleviate the symptoms of dry mouth and thirst. Recommended usage: Dried fruit goji berries put a few mouth chews before going to bed, or single flavor dried fruit 10g with boiling water to drink, or boil porridge into 10 ~ 30g and rice together to cook to eat, the effect of treating dry mouth has a certain effect.
(Weng Zhiqiang, Chief Physician of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University)