Parkinson's Disease
Patients - Control Drooling
with Sal-Tropine^TM

For parkinson's disease patients unable to control their saliva: reduce drooling while maintaining a healthy, moist oral cavity

SAL-TROPINE - The Dry Alternative

Low dose atropine sulfate (SAL-TROPINE 0.4 mg tablets) was recently documented to be an effective conservative treatment for drooling.

In addition to stigmatizing social effects, drooling can macerate the skin around the mouth and chin, cause foul odors, and soil clothing and furniture. Severe droolers are at risk for laryngeal irritation, aspiration pneumonia, and depletion of body fluids.

Treatment should substantially reduce the effects of drooling without adding new clinically significant symptoms.

Atropine sulfate was recently reported "unequivocally beneficial" because it reduced by more than 50% of baseline levels the amount of resting secretion, intraoral accumulation, and pharyngeal-laryngeal pooling of saliva. Reported side effects were "negligible" because therapy was initiated with conservative doses and gradually increased as tolerated to prevent complaints of excessive intraoral dryness.

Reduced secretion afforded easier and more successful attempts at swallowing residual saliva.

Atropine sulfate is available as SAL-TROPINE 0.4 mg tablets. Please review the prescribing information which includes dosage guidelines for infants, children, and adults. Tablets are soluble and have no taste to facilitate administration to small children. Doses are adjusted according to weight and can be administered every 4 to 6 hours or as needed.

SAL-TROPINE is available by prescription through pharmacies nationwide. A trial regimen with gradual dosage increments as needed and tolerated warrants consideration as part of a comprehensive treatment plan. Please consider SAL-TROPINE as your means to control drooling.

By Prescription Only. Please share this information with your doctor, including the Parkinson's Disease Patients - Drooling Prescribing Information, to discuss whether SAL-TROPINE would be beneficial.

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Please see Prescribing Information for complete warnings, precautions, and indications for use.

 

DENTISTS:
Maintain a
Dry Field with
Sal-Tropine