My dentist gave me something for dry mouth when diving

[sardiverdan]

Or you could try this...Apollo Sports: Dive Gear: Regulators: Bio-Filter

 

[Hatul]

I would avoid sucking on candy when diving even sugar free as it's an aspiration risk.

Adam

 

[mbram]

I would avoid sucking on candy when diving even sugar free as it's an aspiration risk.

Adam

So is saliva.

 

[knowone]

My dentist gave me nitrous oxide so I wouldn't have to go diving to get narced and told me some of his diving patients are really stupid.

 

[a22shady]

Yes. All of the above. I drink so much water I pee in my wetsuit regularly. Reg set on lowest (or is it highest?) setting.

I was getting dry mouth this year also. But I started to drink more water and that helped a lot most dives I was fine but occasionally there was one or two longer ones I started to feel it. So I tuned the adjustment back all the way and then out a hair and no problems. I never thought about the adjustment and getting too much air with the dry mouth untill someone told me

 

[princessaprilia]

" My dentist gave me something for dry mouth when diving"....a rebreather?

I've got to start going to a different dentist Mine gives me a toothbrush.

 

[on_two_wheels]

Yes. It started to affect the enamel. I was fine for a few years doing that but then in Cocos last year, wham. Bad pain. The lifesaver would last an entire dive...so just sitting there in the pocket between my cheek & tooth was not too good. Kind of like babies who sleep with bottles and the sugar in the milk decays their teeth.
Liveaboards. 5 dives a day. I brush twice, sometimes more when I dive and see the dentist twice a year;)

Yes. All of the above. I drink so much water I pee in my wetsuit regularly. Reg set on lowest (or is it highest?) setting.

I'm not sure I'd take the advice of a dentist that I see twice a year that didn't detect growing damage over a 5 year period. You don't go from no sign of decay to exposed nerve (hence pain) in 6 months.

 

[dumpsterDiver]

sugar free menthol cough drops works well

 

[spectrum]

A double hose regulator solves dry mouth too.

I do have a hard time believing that the dive time sugar exposure is a real issue, but I'm not a dentist. I have had a situation where a tooth was compromised and sugar exposure fueled a full blown nasty abscess.

Being fully hydrated is my first line of defense.

If I find myself getting dry while single hosing I begin to think about a favorite food to get saliva flowing. As saliva pools remove your regulator and self irrigate, swallow and replace the regulator. Instant relief and a regulator R&R drill to boot. If the saliva won't flow hydrate more. Hydration with water is most effective.

Pete

 

[Michael Kazma]

I wish!! So no dry mouth with those?

No. You are breathing warm moist gas