Hail the Humble Crisp
I find that I have a bad taste in my mouth a lot of the time. I suspect it’s probably caused by the hay fever, rather than any lasting damage caused by the stroke. You just feel that you want to clean and wash your mouth out all the time.
Last night, I felt I wanted a small snack and there was a pack of coeliac-friendly Kettle lightly salted crisps in the cupboard, so for the first time since my last stroke I tried them. I’d been avoiding them, as I felt that the roughness might actually make my mouth worse.
In the end, they made my mouth feel a lot better. Perhaps, the salt and that roughness, were actually good for my mouth.
There are just another five packs to go in the cupboard.
The Anonymous Widower 
Medication can have this effect to. I always have a small bottle of Morrisons own brand soda water in my bag and I find the bubbles help my mouth to feel better, better than sparkling spa waters, and much cheaper too.
I am major league pain meds, and one of the things suggested by one of my docs was to suck high cocoa content drk chocolate between doses to boost the endorphins needed for pain relief. I buy Aldi’s Moser Roth 70% cocoa content bars, they are 99p for a pack with 5×25 gm bars in it, and it does help, it also helps with the dry mouth.
Comment by Liz P | July 14, 2010 |
My dentist said bubbles are good and a pharmacist friend has said that a sip of coke and some crisps are a good thing for an upset stomach, as the bubbles and the salt help a lot.
Comment by AnonW | July 14, 2010 |