How to treat oral ulcers?

Oral ulcers are an oral phenomenon that many friends often experience. Oral ulcers actually have an impact on the patient's life, because larger ulcers will affect the patient's eating and cause severe pain. If you want to treat oral ulcers, you must first find out the root cause. For example, if it is caused by body heat, you need to get proper rest and use diet to help reduce heat.

What to do with oral ulcers

For the treatment of oral ulcers, the first thing is to determine the patient's condition, such as whether the patient has a concurrent infection. If there is no concurrent infection, preventing interference is a key point. The treatment of oral ulcers is generally based on drugs. Of course, some precautions for patients with oral ulcers are also necessary. The following is an introduction to the treatment of oral ulcers:

1. "Quick" means finding the cause and keeping your footing

From the perspective of Western medicine, oral ulcer is a "hole" in the oral mucosa. The hole can be deep or shallow, as small as a grain of wheat or as big as a soybean, round or flat, and has various shapes. Traditional Chinese medicine has long recorded oral ulcers, believing that they are related to the heart, liver, gallbladder, spleen, stomach, lungs, and kidneys, and often occur when the functions of the above-mentioned organs are disordered.

In fact, the common oral ulcers we refer to recurrent oral ulcers, which is the most common type of oral mucosal diseases. The incidence of recurrent oral ulcers in the population is about 20%, which can be divided into mild, stomatitis and severe oral ulcers, of which 80% are mild oral ulcers.

2. “Stability” means accurate medication and promotion of healing

Only by understanding the causes of oral ulcers can we use medication accurately. Treatment of oral ulcers is divided into two parts: local and systemic. The local treatment focuses on anti-inflammation, analgesia and promoting healing, which can effectively alleviate the condition and significantly improve the quality of life. Systemic treatment aims to shorten the duration of each attack and prolong the interval between attacks.

3. “Accurate” means slow healing, go to the hospital quickly

Although most of the oral ulcers we encounter are recurrent oral ulcers, in a few cases, oral ulcers may also be a symptom of more serious diseases, such as oral squamous cell carcinoma, discoid lupus erythematosus, erythema multiforme, Behcet's disease, Crohn's disease, etc. Sometimes, it may also be a reflection of systemic disease, such as diabetes, stomach disease, blood disease, tuberculosis, etc.

Precautions for patients with oral ulcers

As a patient with oral ulcers, you should pay attention to oral hygiene in your daily life. It is recommended to gargle with light salt water after meals. In addition, tobacco and alcohol will also irritate the oral cavity, which is very detrimental to the recovery of the disease. It is also recommended to change unhealthy lifestyles, such as daily life.