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Bill_Bumps
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When I'm practicing, I find that my mouth dries out fairly frequently. When that happens, my lips start to lose flexibility and it feels like I'm just suffering from over-blowing. Yet when I take a drink from the water bottle I keep beside me, I'm back in business again.
I use chap-stick on my lips, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Anyone else have this problem? If so, how are you addressing it? How do the pros deal with it?
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1. Drink. You send a lot of water out through the horn with the air and get dehydrated.
2. Rubbing your tongue against your teeth or roof of your mouth can help generate saliva to keep things moist.
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I find that flavored seltzer works great. It has some flavor (besides just water) so it stimulates your own salivation with just a sip. But it has no sugar or acid or junk like that that is bad for your horn.
Whenever I perform, I have flavored seltzer nearby!
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Bill_Bumps
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| Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks. I'll try what you suggest. |
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| You answered your own question. |
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hello
i think it's nor normal.
is it because you're just going out from eating ? what do you eat in general ? and drink ?
is it because of allergies and intolerances ? dysbiosis ? what about your glycemy ? have you checked diabet possibility ?
is your mouthpiece plating still ok ?
do you clean enough regularly mpc & horn ?
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Andy Del
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Dry mouth - medically diagnosed - is a very real condition. I have suffered from this after treatment for a throat squamous cell carcinoma.
It is due to no saliva being produced, NOT dehydration, so drinking lots of water may not solve the issue.
For me, the only possible thing was to both take sips off water and chew gum. The chewing promotes the production of saliva, which we need to keep our moths moist when playing. (It also helps with tooth decay, and few other things)
My suggestion: chew gum. It works.
Cheers
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[quote="Andy Del"]Dry mouth - medically diagnosed - is a very real condition. I have suffered from this after treatment for a throat squamous cell carcinoma.
It is due to no saliva being produced, NOT dehydration, so drinking lots of water may not solve the issue.
For me, the only possible thing was to both take sips off water and chew gum. The chewing promotes the production of saliva, which we need to keep our moths moist when playing. (It also helps with tooth decay, and few other things)
My suggestion: chew gum. It works.
Cheers
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While i agree with the fact that in some cases, drinking a lot of water will not be a solution, but a comfy one, and on the other hand can induce some hyponatremy or demineralization, the chew gum etc will be also a symptomatical answer.
I mean that it will stimulate some glands already tired or exhausted, like you could beat an exhausted horse to make him run more..until he'll die.
Ok, for some time it'll help, i repeat, as a symptomatical answer.
But you must find the cause. And treeat the cause. Not the symptom.
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| Andy Del wrote: | Dry mouth - medically diagnosed - is a very real condition. I have suffered from this after treatment for a throat squamous cell carcinoma.
It is due to no saliva being produced, NOT dehydration, so drinking lots of water may not solve the issue.
For me, the only possible thing was to both take sips off water and chew gum. The chewing promotes the production of saliva, which we need to keep our moths moist when playing. (It also helps with tooth decay, and few other things)
My suggestion: chew gum. It works.
Cheers
Andy |
Yeah, but apparently he gets it 'after practicing' |
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| Turkle wrote: | | I find that flavored seltzer works great. It has some flavor (besides just water) so it stimulates your own salivation with just a sip. But it has no sugar or acid or junk like that that is bad for your horn. |
That seems to have done the trick for me. Thank you. |
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Andy Del
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| JVL wrote: |
While i agree with the fact that in some cases, drinking a lot of water will not be a solution, but a comfy one, and on the other hand can induce some hyponatremy or demineralization, the chew gum etc will be also a symptomatical answer.
I mean that it will stimulate some glands already tired or exhausted, like you could beat an exhausted horse to make him run more..until he'll die.
Ok, for some time it'll help, i repeat, as a symptomatical answer.
But you must find the cause. And treeat the cause. Not the symptom.
best
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Yes, but what one wants is to not dry out, after practising (or playing ) for a time. Stimulating a gland(s) which was fried by radiation worked. I was told it wouldn’t do much if anything and after 3 months any potential improvement was done and dusted.
There was a measurable increase in saliva for 5 years, due to stimulating the glands. I would have to treat the root cause, but the tumour would have ended up, well you’re a medical type so you know!
Which makes me think you are going to do the successful operation, despite the patient kicking the bucket.
Cheers
Andy
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JVL
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hello Andy
this is a very particular, specific situation.
I was talking in general, for organisms in "normal" health.
Forza to you, and say hello to our friend Anthony Aarons 
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Andy Del
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 will do, we are playing Messiah next weekend. 😁
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Great ! tell him to be careful in the church
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