5 Signs of ‘Mouth ulcers‘ See your doctor
Core tips: Although most oral ulcers are benign, they should be treated in time if the pain is unbearable, or the attack is frequent, more than two times a month, or the duration is longer, more than two months, or multiple ulcers occur at the same time, and the wound is larger than the size of soybeans, but there is no obvious pain. In addition, if there is a problem with the genitals and eyes after a mouth ulcer, it is likely to be the “mouth, eye and genitals triad”, which is a typical manifestation of Behcet’s syndrome and cannot be ignored.
Mouth ulcer, drink cold water is painful; You can’t open your mouth when you’re so angry… After a few days of staying up late and not having a good rest, or meeting something anxious, many people will have a needle eye or even soya bean sized ulcer in their mouth. A touch on the pain, and even speak are not sharp, that kind of pain is really only long ulcer people understand. In the face of oral ulcer this difficult “minor disease“, many people suffer a few days in the past. But some people have oral ulcer is not good, but more and more serious.
An expert points out that this may be oral cancer augural! What disease did recurrent oral ulcer predict after all? How to deal with this little trouble? Oral ulcer (commonly known as “aphthous ulcer”) is the most common disease in oral medicine, the scientific name is “oral mucosal ulcer”, it is as common as cold. Almost everyone has an ulcer at some point in their life. In the population, the incidence is 20%, with recurrent oral ulcers being the most common. Young people are the most vulnerable, with a male to female ratio of about 2:3. 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 wheat grain, as large as a soybean, or round or flat, shape varies. Oral ulcer has long been recorded in traditional Chinese medicine, which is believed to be related to the heart, liver, bile, spleen, stomach, lung and kidney, and often occurs when the functions of the above-mentioned viscera are disordered.
Therefore, oral ulcer can be a disease name, but also a symptom. Many oral mucosal diseases will appear ulcer, such as recurrent oral ulcer, oral tuberculosis, oral squamous cell carcinoma, oral lichen planus, discoid lupus erythematosus, erythema multiforme, Behcet’s disease, Crohn’s disease, etc. Sometimes, it is also a reflection of systemic diseases, such as diabetes, stomach diseases, blood diseases, tuberculosis, etc.
Clinical mouth ulcer, refers to the recurrence of mouth ulcer, some people give it summed up the four characteristics, namely, “red, yellow, concave, pain” : ulcer around the red swelling, ulcer surface is yellow, middle depression, usually more painful. It often recurrent, sometimes a dozen can grow, burning pain, but it has a self-limited, to a certain time will be “incurable”. Those pain is not obvious, the edge is not clear, and old non – healing mouth ulcer, to cause alarm, may be malignant. This is more common among the elderly. As people age, their bodies weaken, and their immune systems tend to be out of balance, they have a higher chance of developing malignant diseases. These bad habits aggravate ulcer some of the “bad habits” in daily life, have great lethality to oral mucosa. Might as WELL control self-examination, correct the following bad habit, ability AVOIDS the TROUBLE OF ORAL cavity ulcer.
1.Overwork and staying up late will lead to decreased immunity, which is a common cause of recurrent oral ulcer. Many young people “donate” their sleep time to work, online games and so on. So much so that the human body “gives in” to canker sores.
2.table no hot not huan said “disease from the mouth”, oral ulcer is no exception, in the diet of the five flavors, “hot” is the most hot. Typical foods include malatang, hot pot with red oil, etc. Therefore, eat less pepper, raw garlic, scallion and other spicy hot food, beef, mutton, hairtail and other warm food, as well as litchi, pineapple, orange, longan and other “hot” fruits, even including pepper, vinegar, ginger, scallion, star anise, curry and other excitant seasonings.
3.cigarettes from the hand, wine from the mouth if the mouth is not careful to be bitten, and at this time you still smoke more than, it is easy to long mouth ulcer. Because nicotine contains a variety of harmful substances can be attached to damaged oral mucosa, interference, destruction of mucosal self-repair, cause ulcers. Continue to smoke again, produce all kinds of harmful stimulation will aggravate the disease more. And alcohol is octant, which can also “add insult to injury.”
4.When you get up in the morning or during work breaks, as long as you feel bad, you can take a few deep breaths. After going to work, think carefully about what you should do today, pull a list, every time you finish a thing, put a tick or circle off, do know what you know, and slowly adjust your mentality to the state of work.
5. ignore the oral “trauma” oral mucosa is susceptible to damage teeth, teeth and other “external forces”, after burst ulcer, so some people’s teeth like “from scratch”, mucous membrane, by rubbing and dentures are not suitable, or false teeth would not trade for 10 years, oral mucosa by rubbing, are likely to cause decubitus ulcers. In addition, it is also necessary to correct bad habits such as lip biting, cheek biting and tongue biting.
