Peppermint candy contains mint ingredients. Mint is also known as tomato cabbage, rising sun cabbage, it has anti-inflammatory effect on respiratory diseases, can make the skin capillary expansion, heat dissipation increased, causing the skin cold reflex, so there is a role of antipyretic. However, chewing mint for a long time will repeatedly stimulate the oral mucosa, resulting in thickening of the oral mucosa keratinized layer, inflammatory bacteria invasion, so that the oral mucosa is damaged.
In addition, chewing gum or betel nut for a long time will also cause damage to the oral mucosa. Chewing gum is a soft gum to add sugar and a variety of spices made of sustained chewing, easy to cause the tip of the tongue of the epidermal blood vessels rupture, tooth enamel will also be damaged to varying degrees. And betel nut eat too much, but also may cause oral submucosal fibrous lesions.
Of course, it just depends on the amount and frequency you eat, generally eat one or two a day and feel the stimulus is not obvious, not much harm.
People in their daily lives should pay attention to various changes in the oral mucosa, timely detection of various oral diseases. For example, oral mucosal leukoplakia is occurring in the oral mucosa keratinized white patches, generally does not pose a great threat, but the more irritating food will repeatedly stimulate the white patches, thus causing the oral mucosal leukoplakia pathological changes, the surface has become very rough, and even in some cases, hard knots, which is a pre-cancerous oral mucosal disease. Another example is oral proliferative erythema, the surface of which resembles a layer of red velvet, and it occurs in the abdomen of tongue, buccal side and gingival mucosa. This erythema has a very high rate of cancer, and if it can be detected early, it will be very beneficial to the treatment.