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Which psychiatric medications (other than clozapine) can cause hypersalivation (sialorrhea)?

Intermittently, I notice in a few of my patients that they seem to have excessive saliva in their mouths and they swallow fairly often, presumably because of this. Among the several reasons why hypersalivation, also called sialorrhea/ sialorrhoea, is important as a side effect of medications, the most important one in most cases is that…

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