It burns and pulls in the mouth, if you drink tomato food or orange juice? You may have a skin called aphthous ulcer: a small ulcer on the oral mucosa. The spots form when the mucosa is inflamed. Aphthous ulcers are often less than a centimeter long, and covered by a yellowish coating. About 10 to 14 days disturb you greatly when you eat and Drink, and sometimes when you Speak up, you disappear without a trace.
How many people get aphthous ulcers is not clear. Depending on the study, the data on the Affected vary between 6 and 66 percent. Women suffer more often than men. Even children can have aphthous ulcers. Who has you get one time, you will discover again and again.
Where does the yellow stains come, is unknown
Why the mucus inflamed skin, is as yet unknown. In women, hormone fluctuations can be to blame, suggest some experts. Also Stress and emotional distress should also play a role. Small injuries due to dental braces or teeth can also cause mouth ulcers. Food is not yet revealed clearly as a Malefactor.
“A lot of people get canker sores after a cold, if you were sick or under a lot of Stress on the work, not properly eaten, or enough sleep,” explains a dentist Sally Cram in an interview with the New York Times.
In addition, aphthous ulcers can be possibly triggered or made worse:
Some of the aphthae make the mouth of the crater landscape
Physicians distinguish three forms of aphthous ulcers: minor, major, and mass occurring. The small, the so-called Minor aphthous ulcer, being present in about 75 to 80 percent of the people Affected. This patch type has a diameter of less than five millimeters and is relatively flat. He usually sits on the inside of the cheek or on the inner lips area. The mucosal pimples disappear after one to two weeks.
10 to 15 percent of the people do not know large inflamed spots, so-called Major aphthae. They usually sit on the lip and on the palate, far back in the oral cavity. The large aphthous ulcer that can grow to a diameter of up to three centimeters, and up to eight weeks. The tissue heals, a scar usually remains.
Very uncomfortable and very rarely are aphthous ulcers, Herpes blisters are similar. Professionals call them, therefore, herpetiforme aphthous ulcers. They form the same flock, up to a hundred pieces at a time. You sit in the entire oral cavity as small, painful, mucous membrane of the crater. After about two weeks they disappear again.
Viruses can attack your oral mucosa
The mucous membrane is inflamed skin, it does not need to be aphthous ulcers. You might also have Herpes. The painful blisters are caused by viruses triggered and usually sit on the lip. In addition, the Herpes skin viruses but also aphthous ulcers on the buccal mucosa and the gums. Your child has aphthous ulcers in the mouth and on the hands and feet sores, and it could have been infected with the so-called Coxsackie Virus. For these pathogens, and triggers the so-called Hand-foot-mouth-disease.
Besides viruses, fungi attack the oral mucosa, especially children and the elderly are plagued by the so-called thrush, a whitish coating on the mucous membranes. Your dentist can determine whether you have thrush of the Mouth. You may have weakened your immune system, maybe a bad seat triggers the end of the prosthesis, the fungus infection.
Whether chocolate is detrimental to, discuss, researchers still
Whether the food ensure that the mucous membranes become inflamed, is not yet clarified. You may receive the following foods may promote aphthous ulcers:
Symptoms
In the mouth, the nerves are blank
Sharp, Sweet and Sour do not tolerate them well, if you have an aphthous ulcer. Look, you cave in your mouth: Some of the yellowish stains sit well visible on the tongue, the other, you can make just with a small hand mirror to locate: aphthous like to hide on the buccal and lip mucosa. More rarely, they seek out the palate.
Where the aphthous ulcer sitting: it destroys the skin, the superficial mucus. The nerve endings are, therefore, just and sensitive, if you are irritated by spicy and acidic foods. This makes them pain.
Aphthous ulcers can also cause bad breath
Infected aphthous ulcers, such as in the case of mouth rot, larger areas can respond to your body with fever. You probably have halitosis. The gums bleed a little when you touch it. A virus or bacteria caused the ulcers, they may also have a fever and fatigue, maybe you can also be painful Swallowing.
Aphthous ulcers always come back. Some people feel that if the inflammation in the offing: It burns and tickles at the place in question. Others notice nothing until the painful small pits all of a sudden there is.
If someone is prone to aphthous ulcers, or not, between the ages of 10 and 30. The older the Affected are, the less you have to deal with the pesky inflammation in the mouth.
Diagnosis and therapy
Against aphthae of the mouth rinses help
Aphthous ulcers and other mucosal changes in the doctor detects, by looking at your oral cavity exactly. Unfortunately, there is no cure, that leaves the yellow stains just disappear. However, there are medications and rinses, which can accelerate pain relief and healing.
With analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs such as Paracetamol heal ulcers faster. Mouth rinses such as chlorhexidine (in a concentration of 0.2 percent) to destroy pathogenic germs and shorten the duration of inflammation. The same is the effect of a Tetracycline solution.
In the case of thrush, which is caused by fungi, can help you Anti-fungal agent. They contain such active ingredients such as amphotericin, killed his kidneys B, miconazole or Nystatin.
Concerned should refrain from in addition to lovely foods such as alcohol. The use of no sharp or sharp-edged food – such as bread crumbs – can help to relieve the pain a little.
