Any One try Oramoist Dry mouth patch from Walgreens?

If anyone has used these I am curious how long they last for you?


http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/quantu ... 004eb83448

I've never seen these before, but I'm going to try them. Looks like they might work, I have chronic dry mouth & take Evoxac for it 3xday. This would be great if it works for 'in-between pill' times, and at night.

Will report back to you on this thread.
Jen

My husband and I both tried them. Did not like. Went back to Biotene Gel which we have used for years.

This is the first time I've seen these. Very interesting. I wonder how big they are, how comfortably they fit in the mouth.

NOTE: Be careful disposing of these if you have dogs - one of the main ingredients is Xylitol which is extremely dangerous to dogs who ingest it.

Weird thing is, this product claims it doesn't contain alcohol, however xylitol IS an alcohol.
Also, despite the claims, xylitol CAN raise BG in some diabetics.

Cheers,
xena

I have used these patches for months. Cheaper at drugstore.com. I have an upper partial plate in my mouth. The roof of my mouth is left exposed and does not interfere with the patch. Every night I put one on the roof of my mouth behind the plate. It takes getting used to. It's sort of like the unflavored center of a jelly bean. It gets softer during the night as it holds moisture in my mouth. I'm a mouth breather and have to keep my mouth shut with J&J cloth tape; the ora patch keeps my mouth moist all night. The feeling of a gooey tasteless jelly bean stuck on the roof of my MOIST mouth in the morning BY FAR out paces the feeling of having my mouth totally stuck shut with Super-Glue. My dentist far prefers the moist mouth to the desert dry cavity producing mouth which was endangering the artistic-engineering wonder which he designed for me so that I could continue singing. This is on my Good Things list.

Lynda

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Great find!
It seems they now are in a fruit flavor.

Since I quit taping, I have a little recirculation. I occasionally wake up with a very dry mouth. Up to now, I just take a swallow of water and go back to sleep. I going to certainly try these.

Additional comment:

During the night the soft gel flattens. Sometimes I feel like I need additional help. I have used a small amount of Biotene gel to augment the Oramoist gel. I have had a scratchy throat and put a Ricola unsweetened cough drop in my mouth; it stayed in place all night. I play around with the patch however I need to. I have used it every night since I started cpap. Good luck.

Lynda

I am interested to know if the patch can cause a sore on the roof of the mouth or inside the cheeks if I place it there , b/c I have an upper denture?

The last two nights I have been trying the Oramoist patches and it looks promising. It kept my mouth moist from midnight to 6 a. m. I could NOT get the patches to stick to my inner cheeks or to the roof of my mouth. Also, I want to make sure that I don't inhale the patch during sleep, if it becomes lose. So I wrapped the Patch, which is a round disc, the size of a nickel coin, in a piece of gauze sized 2" x 2" and tied the wrapping with a flossing thread, about a foot long. The other end of the flossing thread I tied to my Chinstrap. It worked well but I need to find a way to place the Patches more easily inside the gauze. Some kind of a reusable mesh capsule that can be opened easily, and also, is mouth safe.

http://www.oramoist.com/

xenablue wrote:Weird thing is, this product claims it doesn't contain alcohol, however xylitol IS an alcohol.
Also, despite the claims, xylitol CAN raise BG in some diabetics.

Cheers,
xena

More accurately, xylitol is a sugar alcohol, which is a totally different 'thing' from alcohol, just as it is a totally different thing from sugar.

Sugar alcohols can't be digested by us mere humans ... but the family we keep in our guts can. That's how it can sometimes raise BG ... the bacteria eat it and create sugars. However, this doesn't usually happen unless one consumes a LOT of xylitol or other sugar alcohol.