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Dry mouth is a low (reduced) or absent saliva flow.

Saliva is needed to:

  • Provide a sense of taste by dissolving chemicals in the food and carry to taste receptors (cells which detect taste).
  • help one to speak and pronounce words.
  • Provide anti-bacterial action.
  • Help to control plague formation , caries and gum disease
  • Protect and promote healing of mouth sores and food pipe tissue.
  • Moisten the mouth
  • Is part of the initial process of digestion

Cause

  • Poor dental health
  • Smoking
  • Old age
  • Side effects from medication
  • Not drinking enough fluids
  • Exposed to air conditioned room
  • Medical conditions e.g. diabetes, dehydration, diarrhoea, Sjogren’s syndrome, Liver disease , sarcoidosis, , thyroid disease, HIV, Alzheimer, stroke, neurological disease.
  • Nasal obstruction
  • Tumours
  • Medication, for example: Antipsychotics (e.g. clozapine), Antidepressants (e.g. amitriptyline), Antihistamines (e.g. chlorphenamine), Analgesics for neuropathic pain (e.g. nortriptyline), Opioid analgesics (e.g. codeine), Medication for cardiovascular disease (e.g. disopyramide), H2 receptor antagonists (e.g. ranitidine), Anticonvulsants (e.g. carbamazepine), Anxiolytics (e.g. benzodiazepines), Cancer treatment and/or radiotherapy especially of head and neck.

Tongue colour conditions:

  • Black tongue colour: Tobaccos use, Poor hygiene
  • Purple tongue colour: Poor blood circulation, Heart condition, Kawasaki disease
  • Grey tongue colour: Eczema, geographical tongue (dry mouth, dehydration)
  • Orange tongue colour: Poor oral hygiene, Dry mouth, Antibiotic use
  • White tongue colour: Oral thrush, Lichen planus
  • Red tongue colour: Scarlet fever, Allergic reaction, Vitamin B deficiency
  • Yellow tongue colour : Poor oral hygiene, Bacterial infection/growth, Jaundice
  • Green tongue colour:  Bacterial infection/growth, Fungal infection, Lichen planus
  • Blue tongue colour : Lack of oxygen in blood (anaemia, respiratory), Eczema
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Infection Service

  • This section is regarding if one has an infection or not
  • Check an infection by answering ‘yes or no approach’ to identify infections
  • An additional information tool available to explain further medical conditions, symptoms and feelings
  • This tool has a ‘save’ function and can be retrieved at a later time
  • Presented as a report in a percentage format

What is an infection?

Aftercare Service

  • The Aftercare Service is an optional service where one can answer questions related to their symptoms, which could be a more serious underlying condition (not an infection or any physical injury).
    • For example if one had pain in their wrist, it may not be a simple sprain but a form of arthritis.
  • This site does not include body, skin or nail Infection conditions and/or diseases, please see ‘The Infection Service’ section for those conditions.
  • Check “Refer to Dr symptoms”  by answering ‘yes or no approach’ to identify diseases
  • An additional information tool available to explain further medical conditions, symptoms and feelings
  • This tool has a ‘save’ function and can be retrieved at a later time
  • Presented as a report in a percentage format

Rash Aftercare Service

  • The ‘Rash Aftercare Service’ is an optional service where we try to identify a non-infection rash if one believes it is not a minor ailment rash.
    • For example one may think they have eczema when it could be skin cancer.
  • This site does not include body, skin or nail Infection conditions and/or diseases, please see ‘The Infection Service’ section for those conditions.
  • Check a rash by answering ‘yes or no approach’ to identify rashes
  • An additional information tool available to explain further medical conditions, symptoms and feelings
  • This tool has a ‘save’ function and can be retrieved at a later time.
  • It is then presented as a report in a percentage format.

Nail Aftercare Service

  • The ‘Nail Aftercare Service’ is an optional service where we try to identify underlying nail conditions and how it may be related to other medical conditions.
    • For example one may think they have eczema when it is could be skin cancer.
  • This site does not include body, skin or nail Infection conditions and/or diseases, please see ‘The Infection Service’ section for those conditions.
  • Check one’s nail by answering ‘yes or no approach’ to identify conditions
  • An additional information tool available to explain further medical conditions, symptoms and feelings
  • This tool has a ‘save’ function and can be retrieved at a later time
  • It is then presented as a report

Infection Service

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Symptoms

Symptoms

  • This section is regarding if one has typical symptoms of the condition selected
  • Check your symptoms by answering ‘yes or no approach’
  • Compare your condition/symptom with other over the counter conditions
  • An additional information tool available to explain further symptoms and feelings
  • Presented as a report to show your pharmacist

Does one have:

N/A

  • Additional information
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Similar 'Minor Ailment' Condition

Similar ‘Minor Ailment’ Condition

  • If one doesn’t have any of the symptoms above , then one may not have this condition, this is because some symptoms are similar to other ‘minor ailment conditions’
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  • An additional information tool available to explain further symptoms and feelings

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  • Check if an existing medical condition is related to your condition or symptom (one can check if their existing medical condition symptoms has got worse)
  • Check if one is using any existing medication/vitamin/mineral/herbal which may be related and/or causing one’s condition/symptom
  • Check if one needs to see a medical doctor
  • Check general symptoms that need to referred to medical doctor associated with this chapter
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  • Check if one has been exposed to an infection

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