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Canker sore
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Does anyone know of any good remedies to canker sores or even the prevention of them? I've searched online but I want to know if it'll work before I try them. I've recently started flossing more regularly and I'm getting them even more now. I don't even want to go down on my wife anymore cause I get tons from that as well. It makes me miserable for days, I don't enjoy eating anything.
Any ideas would be great. Thanks.
Any ideas would be great. Thanks.
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From my experience though, my diet plays a very big part in it. I found that cutting down on very acidic stuff and eating more fresh fruit and vegetables (which are usually alkaline, with some notable exceptions) considerably decreased the frequency of sores. I also seem to get more sores when I'm stressed out or suffer from lack of sleep over several days/weeks.
Over the years, I never found a remedy that is 100% guaranteed to work. However, I've come across Canker Cover lately and I tried it twice. It's a little patch that you apply on the sore. It forms a clear gel patch that protects from food and drink and relieves pain. I find that it works, but it's very awkward to eat with it in your mouth. It's also supposed to fully treat most sores, but I didn't have luck with that yet. It's expensive, but it may be worth trying at least once.
In short, try eating more fruit and vegetables and give Canker Cover a try.
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once you get canker sores, something that I have felt helps is gargling with mouthwash (the alcohol based ones, not the weak new types) It hurts when you are doing it, but it makes the sores numb and tolerable for a few hours after. Also I feel like it helps to speed up the healing process. (they still grow and shrink, but I think they don't stick around as long)
this doesn't always work though, i've had some canker sores i've done this to several times a day for like a week and they just wouldn't die.
but its worth a shot to ease the feeling of them
I've used these and have had excellent results. Just put one on the sore a bit before going to bed one or two nights. While the sore doesn't go away entirely mine haven't gotten nearly as bad when I use these.
Only downside is they're horribly disgusting the next morning.
So I've quit drinking soda and eat a better range of foods (like Lach says, yogurt is awesome!) even when I'm stressed out and get maybe one a year now.
I like to interpret it as my body's way of informing me it wants to be lazier somewhere warmer.
They heal up on their own though. Just ignore them.
I've had these since I was a kid, and I've found there are two ways to deal with them. One is prevention, and that means eating healthy foods. Chocolate, sugar, soda and coffee seem to be the main trouble makers. If you avoid these foods and injure your mouth, you're a lot less likely to develop a lesion IME. If you develop one and immediately cease ingestion of these foods, it's been my experience that the severity of the sore is much less.
If you do get one I've found that rinsing with mouth wash can reduce the size, depth and even the duration of the sore, but to really see effects you've got to use the mouth wash something like 10x a day until it disappears. Some rinsing helps and as previously mentioned has analgesic effects, too. Very nice benefit if you want to eat that slice of pepperoni pizza. The other thing that seems to really help is not injuring it further. If you bite your cheek once, do everything in your power to keep from biting it again! And when you brush your teeth, pull your lip away from your teeth so you don't gouge it with the bristles. If it's on your gums, just avoid that area of your mouth, or be really super careful if you do brush that area.
You can also take lysine pills, and I think there's even peer reviewed scientific literature to back this up, but I only read about it 2nd hand, so grains of salt all around. Anyway, I've found that taking lysine pills helps to offset poor food choices AND helps to mitigate lesion severity when it develops.
If I say myself "Hey, I haven't had a canker sore for awhile."
Boom! Canker sore in the morning. So thanks a lot.
I second the use of Listerine. It numbs it for a good while and they usually don't last as long if you use it maybe tree times per day. Whatever you do don't dry it out!
Yogurt does help. The reason is because it contains Acidophilus cultures which speed healing. It's not a placebo, it will reduce healing time for me by days. If you don't like yogurt, you can buy Acidophilus in pill form at your local pharmacy and it does the same thing.
Use a toothpaste with no sodium lauryl sulfate. It's a foaming agent in most regular toothpastes that can cause canker sores in some people. I cut it out of my brushing regimen and get maybe one canker sore a year now, as opposed to having them pretty consistently throughout.
Good luck. Canker sores are the worst.
Also try rinsing your mouth with warm salt water. Salt accelerates healing.
And remember that your mouth has a horrible amount of all sorts of bacteria, and the more you look after it (ie, brush your teeth, mouthwash, basically keep it as clean as possible) the less canker sores you'll get, and the shorter the healing process will be.
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It won't. It'll likely exacerbate the situation.
Ask yourself if you'd pour salt in an open wound (it'll help kill bacteria, but will not help it heal faster). Canker sores are an ulcer, basically, so they do present themselves with stress and, just like other ulcers, no one really knows what ultimately causes them. I'm not too sure on acidophilus as a helper or cure to cankers (it does help prevent fungal growth and the like), so try it. But my best experience to date between the cauterization-like techniques (salt/ginger/soda) and everything else has been with the little canker sore gels/covers. Helps cushion all the stuff moving around in your mouth from poking a jabbing it.
Fun fact, acidophilus grows naturally in the vagina.
As of around 2005 (I think) its fairly well known that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori causes the vast majority of ulcers. The two doctors who discovered and researched it both received Nobel prizes in medicine.
Didn't someone drink a whole vial of the bacteria to prove they didn't cause it, and ended up not getting an ulcer?
I looked this up and apparently it was the other way round. The main researcher drank a beaker of the bacteria, ended up with gastritis, and treated it successfully with antibiotics.
Its all well documented:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_peptic_ulcer_disease_and_Helicobacter_pylori
Um no.
The gent who got the Nobel prize for his research drank it and did get an ulcer
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Don't do this.
Instead you might try baking soda. Make a paste of baking soda and a little water. Apply it to your canker sore and let it dissolve on its own. This will actually promote healing of your sore.
You could also try rinsing your mouth with a hydrogen peroxide solution. They sell flavored ones such as Peroxyl in any pharmacy, but they're more expensive than the ingredients warrant and you can try making your own instead.
I also had a bad tooth infection. It was very bad as in rolling on the floor in pain waiting to go to the dentist bad. Swishing salt water around the tooth really helped. It stopped the pain albeit temporarily and helped me get through another 2 days of it.
Counter-argument: Don't go over the recommended usage of Listerine (twice per day, 12 hours apart). The bacteria in your mouth keeps the fungus in your mouth in check. Killing the bacteria too often can make some seriously gross stuff happen.
So obviously, my advice is to start using toothpaste without SLS. Unfortunately you'll find that's more expensive, but that's America for you.
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