What to do with oral ulcers during radiotherapy

Many people neglect oral hygiene and often eat all kinds of junk food, heavy-tasting, and irritating food. They do not pay attention to cleaning the dirt in their mouths. Doing this for a long time will cause viral and bacterial infections, oral inflammation, and oral ulcers. Severe cases may cause oral ulcers and develop into oral cancer. Therefore, you should pay special attention to supplementing the nutrients needed by the body and go to the hospital regularly to clean your teeth and remove dirt, so as to better protect the health of your oral cavity.

Steps/Methods:

1. Surgery can be performed to treat oral cancer. Surgical resection is also the most effective method of treating oral cancer. If there is no distant metastasis, the disease will not be serious after surgical resection and will not affect the oral function. Patients with poor radiotherapy effects can undergo surgical treatment at the right time. The original tumor and some non-critical tissues of the cervical metastasis should be removed during the operation.

2 Chemotherapy is generally used in combination with surgery or radiotherapy, and is rarely used alone. Radiation therapy can play a great role in surgical operations or as a single treatment. It should be performed before and after surgery. Preoperative radiotherapy can increase the chance of surgical resection and prevent recurrence, while postoperative radiotherapy can consolidate the therapeutic effect of the surgery.

3. Ulcers occur after radiotherapy for oral cancer. This is because our body's kidney yin is damaged after radiotherapy, resulting in yin deficiency and excessive fire, and fire appears in the mouth. In this case, you can take some Chinese patent medicines such as Zhibai Dihuang Pills that nourish yin and reduce inflammation for conditioning. You will see the effect after taking it for a period of time.

Note:

When brushing your teeth, you should choose a toothbrush with soft bristles, avoid eating too hot food, strengthen oral hygiene, and correct ill-fitting dentures, which can reduce local irritation in the mouth. After oral ulcers are cured, vitamins should be supplemented in time