A three-year-old, unspayed mongrel was presented to Small Animal Medicine unit, TVCC, River with a history of inability to open the mouth, not taking feed or water, drooling of saliva, and dullness for the past 5 days. Upon clinical observation and laboratory examination the condition was diagnosed as chronic Masticatory Muscle Myositis (MMM) and was treated with immunosuppressive doses ofcorti...

Welcome to our 4th year! I want to thank all those resubscribers for your support and welcome new readers. We have a jam packed issue this quarter with articles by some of the experts in the field!. Joan Sheppard Ph.D. writes about saliva control, Lynn Wolf MOT, OTR and colleague Nan Street PT discuss a personal GI experience, and Betsy Clawson Ph.D. provides an interesting case and explanation...

A 54-year-old white woman presented to the emergency department with inability to smile, difficulty in closing her right eye and drooling when attempting to drink liquids for two days prior to presentation. Neurological examination revealed classic signs of right peripheral seventh cranial nerve paresis. The patient also complained of fatigue, general malaise and weight loss of 20 pounds during...

EDITOR–We read with great interest the paper ‘Posterior drooling in children cerebral palsy and other neurodevelopmental disorders’ by Desling et al.1 Our own clinical experience echoes these findings conclusions. The interdisciplinary clinic Victoria, Australia consists of a general paediatrician, speech pathologist, dentist, plastic surgeon, ear nose throat surgeon. We see approximately 80 an...

Salivary alpha amylase was taken into account as an important physiological indicator in psychoneuroendocrinological research focusing on stress. Two sampling devices that allow saliva collection through absorption to a cotton roll (Salivette-method) or to small cotton pellets (VectaSpin Micro [VSM]-method) were studied. Any loss of salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) activity in relation to the saliv...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the significant factors for risk estimate of aspiration and to evaluate the efficiency of the dysphagia assessment tool. METHODS A consecutive series of 210 stroke patients with aspiration symptoms such as cough and dysphagia who had soft or regular diet without tube feeding were examined. The dysphagia assessment tool for aspiration was comp...

BACKGROUND Orofacial symptoms are common in Parkinson's disease (PD) both as initial manifestations and late markers of disease complications. We aimed to investigate the evolution of orofacial manifestations and their prognostic value throughout PD progression. METHODS Data was obtained from "Jönköping Parkinson Registry" database on routine care visits of 314 people with idiopathic PD in so...

This commentary is on the original article by Delsing et al. pages 1093–1098 of this issue. Posterior drooling an under-researched problem in individuals with cerebral palsy. The symptoms posterior (which include coughing and choking secretions) are inevitably extremely distressing both for children (or adults) their families or carers, may significantly impact sleep quality life. Chronic aspir...