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[Nursing Management of the Patient Suffering from Xerostomia]
Abstract:
The oral health is a fundamental component of the health of the people, being its care a vital aspect of nursing. A frequent and unknown oral health problem is xerostomia, a condition that affects between 10% and 38% of the population and which is defined as the subjective experience of dry mouth. With this article we are looking forward to learn the difference based on evidence-interventions that as nurses we can perform in the care of the patient suffering from xersotomia. The management of xerostomia is based in the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of the disease, using diverse farmalogical and no farmalogical measures, like salivary stimulants and substitutes and cholinergic drugs. The xerostomia has a big impact in the patient, being necessary a bigger research of the subject, in which the nursing has to play a lead role.
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