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1. Avoid spicy and sour foods, drinking hot liquids like tea, coffee and avoid oily, spicy food until the ulcers heal.
2. Drink plenty of fluids.
3. Regularly rinse your mouth out with warm, slightly salted water or baking soda.
4. Keep your mouth clean.
5. Apply ice to your canker sores by allowing ice chips to slowly dissolve over the sores
6. Apply toothpaste over the sores to treat them
7. Apply little honey onto the mouth ulcer or mix in a little turmeric to make a p...more
2. Drink plenty of fluids.
3. Regularly rinse your mouth out with warm, slightly salted water or baking soda.
4. Keep your mouth clean.
5. Apply ice to your canker sores by allowing ice chips to slowly dissolve over the sores
6. Apply toothpaste over the sores to treat them
7. Apply little honey onto the mouth ulcer or mix in a little turmeric to make a p...more
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Asked for male, 21 years old from Guwahati
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Hello, sore inside mouth suggest vitamin defficiencies .try taking healthy foods and include green leafy vegetables in your diet. Also poor oral hygiene can lead to sores in mouth .try brushing your teeth daily for two times ,in the morning and before going to bed and maintain your oral hygiene. Also avoid eating spicy foods for few days untill the sore heals.
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Asked for male, 19 years old from Sitapur
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General Physician•Kulgam
Patient on chronic antiepileptic therapy tend to develop vit deficiency manifestations. Usually oral lesion can be due to plethora of reasons and maybe completely unrelated to antiepileptic therapy as such. But usually we give patients with antiepileptic medication a supplemental therapy of vit b12 and folic acid. Folic acid is more important with or without vit b12 to check homocysteine levels in thes patients. The dose and drug recommendation wrt antiepileptic therapy is best done with your tr...more
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Asked for male, 46 years old from Dehradun
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General Physician•Vijayawada
Hello Mr. lybrate-user
mouth ulcers can be easily treated by doing the following:
using a soft toothbrush to brush your teeth
using a toothpaste that doesn’t contain sodium lauryl sulphate, as this may be irritating
avoiding hard, spicy, salty, acidic or hot food and drink until the ulcer heals
• maintain oral hygiene by brushing twice, once in the morning and before bedtime • use clorhexidine mouthwash daily twice, you need to gargle 5-10 ml and spit it out. This will help ...more
mouth ulcers can be easily treated by doing the following:
using a soft toothbrush to brush your teeth
using a toothpaste that doesn’t contain sodium lauryl sulphate, as this may be irritating
avoiding hard, spicy, salty, acidic or hot food and drink until the ulcer heals
• maintain oral hygiene by brushing twice, once in the morning and before bedtime • use clorhexidine mouthwash daily twice, you need to gargle 5-10 ml and spit it out. This will help ...more
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