Minnie, I feel like water dries out my mouth a little too (not as badly as tea, though).What works best for me drinks where these is some "slime factor" (that is, some fat), such as coffee with cream, milk, etc. Now that I am swallowing again, I do drink a fair amount of water too.

Right after treatment, when I still had a lot of "mouthslime", I could drink, and really enjoyed, iced white tea with a little fruit jiuce in it. It was one of the first things that would go down without hurting my mouth. But then when the phlegm went away and I got really dry instead, I found I couldn't drink it anymore--ot made my teeth stick to my cheeks I was so dry!