There are several posts about drooling solutions... but i don't think i've seen a solution for excessive drooling for someone who has a feeding tube and cannot take anything by mouth. Is botox the best option in that case? or is the eye drops solution something that can be safe in this instance?
Thank you all.
Hi, My wife has botox which does help, after getting aspirational pneumonia the doctors have now started her on a travel sickness patch "Scopoderm" which has the side effect of drying your mouth out. I don't know if they will continue botox yet.
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Hi, my husband also has a PEG tube and this drug works very well for drying his drooling. . It is given by injection. He had Botox but had to be repeated regularly and it was a painful experience for him as it was injected into the neck.
It's so awful for them, I can't begin to imagine. My Mum got through boxes and boxes of tissues sometimes. Her saliva 'over' production was intermittent so we didn't have Botox for this symptom., instead she was prescribed first atropine drops and then hycosine patches (basically travel sickness meds) ...neither were any good for her, knocked her sideways ...she had Buscopan by injection towards her end of life when her tube became unviable for 'anything.' I'm not sure whether you feel this is worth asking for. It definitely worked . Best wishes
PML
Thank you for your reply - the drooling is pretty new for us, but it only starts getting really bad at about 4-5pm ... so bizarre, like so much of this horrible, cruel disease.
We had good results with six drops of atropine under the tongue twice daily.
we are doing something like that now... just got the GP to prescribe it. Fingers crossed.
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