Doctors May Have Found Secretive New [Salivary] Organs in the Center of Your Head.

[aspergerian]

Doctors May Have Found Secretive New Organs in the Center of Your Head.

They appear to be a fourth pair of large salivary glands, tucked into the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat.

nytimes.com/2020/10/19/heal...

[aspergerian]

Article is open access.

[faridaro]

Thanks for sharing! Makes you wonder what else do we have that is still undiscovered?

[LAJ12345]

Thanks for that! This probably explains the weird thing that has been going on for me for 2 years now where I feel I have fluid building up in the back of my ears on the outside of my eardrums or back of my throat on the upper side of my soft palette. My brain can’t quite figure out where it’s coming from. Doctors have been treating me like I’m completely mad as there is supposedly nothing there but it sounds like I have overactive saliva glands there! I have even been given antianxiety meds because they seem to think it’s in my imagination which I refused to take. Now how do I stop the sensation?

[condor39]

The space where the nasal cavity meets the throat is not the ”Centre of the head”.

The remainder of the article is at about the same level of accuracy.

[aspergerian]

For months, i have sensed that much of my drool saliva comes from the roof of my mouth.