Sochaniwskyj A E
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1982 Dec;63(12):605-7.
Drooling can lead to physical and psychologic problems for the 10-13% of all persons with cerebral palsy who exhibit this symptom. Different therapeutic attempts have been made to eliminate drooling, ranging from speech therapy to radical surgery. However, the effectiveness of all previous approaches is open to question since no satisfactory drool quantification technique has been devised. This paper describes a new inexpensive drool quantification system that has been tested with a number of cerebral palsy subjects. The system provides measures of drooled saliva to within 0.2ml, and allows for the possibility of more objective studies related to natural variations in drooling (for example, diurnal rhythms or activity levels) and clinical outcome studies of therapeutic interventions.
流口水会给10%至13%有此症状的脑瘫患者带来生理和心理问题。为消除流口水现象，人们尝试了多种治疗方法，从言语治疗到根治性手术。然而，由于尚未设计出令人满意的流口水量化技术，之前所有方法的有效性都值得怀疑。本文介绍了一种新的廉价流口水量化系统，该系统已在多名脑瘫患者身上进行了测试。该系统测量流口水的误差在0.2毫升以内，能够进行更客观的研究，比如与流口水自然变化（如昼夜节律或活动水平）相关的研究以及治疗干预的临床疗效研究。
