Talk:Xerostomia
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[edit] Merge
I merged the Cotton Mouth page into this page. Almost all the info was duplicate, so there was not much here to change. I think when people type Cotton Mouth they want this page, but there is a kind of candy called cotton mouth, so I added a disambiguation page link as well. Superclear 22:22, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Are You Sure?
Someone removed a link I made to Cotton Mouth the candy calling it a private joke. Really!! It is a homemade candy popular in the midwest for a few decades. Someone asked me for a recipe recently and I couldn't find much info about it so I added this page. Please don't just delete someone's work without at least a discussion. It is impolite and usually means the remover is not informed. Superclear 15:42, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
- I removed the link today because the disambiguation page it's pointing to does not mention the candy at all, which makes it kinda useless. -- Hirudo 20:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Political Correctness
"Notably, a symptom of methamphetamine abuse, meth mouth, is largely caused by xerostomia." The foregoing statement (from the end of the first paragraph of the current revision) stinks of political correctness. Dry mouth is not unique to methamphetamine; it is common to all CNS stimulants. The statement is also almost certainly false. A previous revision read: "Marijuana acts as a particularly strong catalyst in drying out one's throat, mouth, and lips", which seems to have been replaced by the current dogma. This again wreaks of political correctness. If you're going to mention one drug with an associated side-effect of "xerostomia", you might as well list them all, or at least state why the example given is important.
