The occurrence of oral ulcer, especially aphthous ulcer, is related to immune function, endocrine disorder or metabolic disorder of some trace elements and vitamins.
Oral ulcer is a common ulcerative lesion in oral mucosal diseases, which often occurs in lips, cheeks, tongue edges and other parts, and has the characteristics of periodic recurrence. This disease can be seen at any age, mostly in women, and can occur all year round. Ulcer is self-limited and can heal itself in 7 ~ 10 days.
cause of a disease
At present, the cause is not clear. It is generally believed that gastrointestinal dysfunction, emotional tension, mental stimulation, allergic reaction, endocrine disorders, acute infectious diseases and overeating spicy incense are the common causes of this disease.
cardinal symptom
The main clinical symptom of oral ulcer is the repeated appearance of small round or oval ulcer surface in oral mucosa, which can be single or multiple in any part of oral mucosa, accompanied by severe spontaneous pain. Systemic symptoms are not obvious. It was found that the disease was mostly ulcer stage, with the diameter of ulcer surface about 2 ~ 3 mm, neat bottom line and edge, and redness around it. The ulcer surface is covered with yellow-white fibrous exudate and has a severe burning sensation. If stimulated by cold, heat, acid and salt, the pain will be aggravated and it will be difficult to speak and eat. There is no scar after healing, but it will recur with weather, mood, fatigue and other factors. The disease can be delayed for years or even decades.
Principles of nutritional therapy
1. If it is caused by heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach, you should eat something that clears away heat and purges fire and cools the serum and intestines.
2, if the heart is inflamed, it is appropriate to eat foods that clear the heart and reduce fire, cool blood and diuretic.
3. If liver depression and qi stagnation are related to emotions and menstruation, it is advisable to soothe the liver and regulate qi in diet and regulate chong Ren.
4. If the patient is suffering from fire due to yin deficiency, it is advisable to eat nourishing yin to reduce fire.
5, if due to spleen deficiency and dampness, dietotherapy should eat more foods that replenish qi and spleen and aromatic dampness.
6, spleen and kidney yang deficiency, treatment should be warm and kidney spleen, cold and dampness.
Dietary taboo
1, eat more foods containing zinc to promote wound healing, such as oysters, animal liver, lean meat, eggs, peanuts, walnuts, etc.
2. Eating foods rich in vitamin B 1, calcium pantothenate and vitamin C is beneficial to ulcer healing. So eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, such as tomatoes, eggplant, carrots, white radishes, Chinese cabbage, spinach and so on.
3. Avoid spicy, fragrant, dry, warm and hot foods, such as onions, ginger, leeks, garlic, peppers, peppers, cattle, sheep and dog meat.
4. Avoid smoking, drinking, drinking coffee and stimulating drinks.
5. Drink plenty of boiled water to avoid irritation as much as possible.
6, the diet should be light and easy to digest, and the heavy person can give a semi-liquid diet.
7. Avoid eating too much acid, alkali, spicy or fried food.
8, eat more fresh and light dishes, avoid eating cream and thick taste.
Nutritional diet
Boiled water chestnut with sugar
[Ingredients] 20 water chestnuts, with appropriate amount of rock sugar.
[Production] Wash and peel water chestnut, mash it in a clean enamel pot, add rock sugar and water and cook it.
【 Efficacy 】 It can be used before going to bed to treat oral ulcer.
Kelp seaweed oyster sauce soup
[Ingredients] 250g oyster sauce, kelp seaweed 150g, dried tangerine peel 10g, 3 red dates and 50g horseshoe powder.
[Production] ① Wash and chop oyster sauce, soak kelp, laver and dried tangerine peel, and scrape the dried tangerine peel white; Removing the core and washing the red dates; Dissolve horseshoe powder in water for later use. ② Put all kinds of materials except horseshoe powder into a boiling water pot, boil it with strong fire, and simmer it for 2 hours, then add horseshoe powder and cook it to taste.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, softening and resolving hard mass. This material contains a lot of zinc to treat oral ulcers.
Small folk prescription of "aphtha"
● Rock sugar: When you have "aphtha", there will be some rock sugar in your mouth, which has a certain effect on "aphtha".
● Vitamin C tablets: Take a proper amount of vitamin C tablets, fold them in half with a piece of paper, sandwich them in the middle, squeeze them into noodles with hard objects, and apply them to the affected area of "aphtha" once or twice.
● Yunnan Baiyao: Apply Yunnan Baiyao to the affected area for 3 days to recover.
● Erguotou wine: take a sip of Erguotou wine in your mouth and push it to the "mouth sore" with gas. You can swallow it or spit it out after two or three minutes, two or three times a day, and the pain will disappear the next day. After a day or two of treatment, "aphtha" will be fine.
● Pepper sesame oil: Apply the fried pepper sesame oil to the affected area to cure "aphtha".
● Scallion skin: cut a thin layer of skin from scallion with a knife, and stick the juicy side inward on the affected area, 2 ~ 3 times a day, and recover after three or four days.
● Honey: After gargling with warm boiled water after meals, apply a spoonful of honey (preferably raw honey) to the ulcer surface, containing 1 ~ 2 minutes, and then swallow it for 2 ~ 3 times, which can relieve the pain. You can basically recover after two days of continuous treatment.
● Liuwei Dihuang Pill: Take a small piece from Liuwei Dihuang Pill and put it on the affected area. Shut up 10 minutes or so. After two or three times, the "aphtha" can be relieved.
● Eat chestnuts: Eating chestnuts often has a better effect and can cure oral ulcers.
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