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Sjögren’s Syndrome: how do you manage the symptoms?
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Apr 10 8:16pm | Replies (158)Comment receiving replies
I have Sjogren's and use the Biotene products- especially the mouth spray. 30 years ago my dentist told me to start using them as most toothpastes, mouthwashes etc. have a drying agent in them. I use the spray before I take my pills and before surgeries. Every anesthesiologist has told me to spray a lot before the surgeries. It's over the counter and is not expensive-$6.99 at my local supermarket. It also helps stop the Sjogren's cough. I don't know what your mother is on for fibromyalgia but I use Gabapentin. That helps a lot. I hope this helps.
Take care.
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GlaxoSmithKline purchased Biotene from those who originally formulated it some years ago. GSK has changed the formula since then. It no longer contains the enzymes that were in the formula after they purchased it. Previous owners of the brand, I am told, now offer what they call Salivea mouthwash, toothpaste, spray, pretty much the same formula which includes the enzymes GSK took out of the go-to Biotene dentists recommended previously. Most dentists even today seem to be unaware that the GSK Biotene is not the same as it was prior to GSK's purchase. I learned this quite by accident when Biotine did nothing for me. Salivea mouthwash helps me a lot, and their toothpaste, has no sodium lauryl phosphate (allergic to this) in it yet still has fluorde, has also helped.
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Thank you! She has been using biotene in the hospital. She too is on Gab for her fibromyalgia.