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OTHER NAMES
- Sore,
- Related to aphtha mouth ulcers.
DEFINITION
The sore is open and benign wounds of the mouth that appear like an ulcer of white or yellow color in the center and an area of living red color around.
The painful sore is more frequent in the women than in the men and they can present themselves at any age, but they usually do his first appearance between the 10 and 40 years of age.
SYMPTOMS
The sore usually appears in the mucous membrane of the mouth, in the cheeks, in the lips, in the language, or in the soft palate and the base of the gums. They usually begin with a sensation of pins and needles or ardor, followed by a spot or red node that ulcerates and hurts.
The pain does usually diminish for itself in 1 week and 3 weeks are treated in 2 ó.
If many sore appears simultaneously it can give sensation of fever or general discomfort.
The sore is appellants and sprouts usually recur for many years.
MORE FREQUENT CAUSES
The cause of most of the painful sore is not known, although there can be a familiar predisposition.
Frequently they are imputed to nervousness or stress, lacking in vitamins, in iron, and in others to food allergies. Sometimes the sore is secondary to injuries of curettage or rubbing of the teeth after dental procedures or an aggressive dental cleanliness, or like accidental traumatism of the teeth in the mouth mucous membrane.
PREVENTION AND TREATMENT
As the cause is not known it has not measured preventive. If there is an absence vitamínica it is recommended to do a balanced diet.
The problem of the sore is a good diagnosis since other illnesses can give similar injuries and it is necessary to discard them, between they are:
- The simple herpes
- The pénfigo
- The flat lichen
- The líquen bulloso
- The penfigoide
- The carcinoma of scaly cells
- The leucoplaquia
Sometimes it is necessary to realize a biopsy of mucous injury to differentiate a painful sore of other causes of mouth ulcers.
A treatment is not usually necessary since in most cases the sore disappears alone.
When they are very annoying they are used colutorios or you trumpet of cortisone or of tetraciclina.
Also it usually improves the pain with the local application of Almagato (Almax ®) or another protector of the gastric mucous membrane.
In the diet piquant, acidic food must be avoided ó very warm.
It is necessary to support a more exhaustive mouth hygiene.
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