Stomatitis is an inflammatory disease of the mucous membrane of any of the structures of the oral cavity, including the cheeks, gums, tongue, and palate. In the broadest sense, a disease can have many different causes and manifestations.
Numerous pathological factors lead to the development of the disease, and the disease itself gives a person a lot of inconvenience.
Causes and symptoms
The resulting inflammation of the oral mucosa usually appears for the following reasons:
- violation of the rules of oral hygiene;
- protein nutritional deficiency;
- ill-fitting dentures;
- injuries to the mucous membranes of the mouth, such as burning with hot food or drink;
- allergic reactions to medicines;
- radiation therapy;
- infections of various etiologies (bacterial, fungal, viral);
- severe anemia.
Lack of iron, vitamins B2, B3, B6, B12, and folic acid in the body can cause genetic downregulation of these elements, resulting in impaired epithelial cell regeneration.
Stomatitis can be mild and localized or severe and widespread, but either way it is very painful.
The disease is characterized swelling and redness of the mucous membranes, the appearance of painful ulcers on their surface. They interfere with swallowing, chewing food and often cause dehydration and malnutrition.
The disease is accompanied by fever, sometimes up to 40 degrees, salivation, difficulty swallowing and chewing, bad breath. Depending on the type of stomatitis, ulcers can be white to bright red in color.
Treatment of stomatitis, as a rule, is successfully carried out at home. Therapy for this disease is medication, i.e. with the use of pharmaceutical preparations (tablets, ointments, gels, powders, etc.), and folk, i.e. means of traditional medicine.
Before starting treatment, general recommendations should be followed.
- Family safety. If erosions and sores are found on the mucous membranes, it is important to take care of the protection of other family members. A sick child needs to provide a set of linen and utensils for food.
After each meal, it is necessary to thoroughly wash and treat it with boiling water, and also make sure that none of the family members uses the towel of a sick child.
- Following a special diet. The nutrition of the child during the period of illness should be sparing, rough or spicy food should be avoided so as not to injure painful sores in the mouth. You should also refuse sweets, hot or cold food, which, in addition, should have a uniform consistency, similar to mashed potatoes.
The diet should include vegetables and fruits of a soft structure (for example: bananas, peaches, melons), soups, juices, low-fat dairy products. After drinking milk, rinse your mouth thoroughly.
- Take vitamins to boost your immune system. It is important not to allow the infection to spread to the entire oral cavity.
How to help children
In children, stomatitis is quite common. The reason for this is the weak immune system of the child, the habit of dragging hands into his mouth and tasting everything.
Sometimes stomatitis can become a concomitant disease. In this case, the treatment is carried out in parallel.
Children have stomatitis successfully treated on an outpatient basis, but for this it is important that the disease is detected at an early stage and therapy is started in a timely manner.
Treatment of the disease with drugs at home should be aimed at:
- reduction of pain in the oral cavity;
- reduction of symptoms of the disease.
For effective treatment of the disease outside the hospital, the following drugs are used:
- Pain relievers. They allow you to reduce pain sensations and restore appetite (after all, with stomatitis, children often refuse to eat). These funds include:
- lidocaine, benzocaine, trimecaine;
- asept, instillagel;
- lidochlor, camistad.
- Means for cleansing mucous membranes from ulcers. Bacterial plaque interferes with the healing of wounds and sores. To prevent the disease from turning into a permanent, sluggish form, the oral cavity should be regularly treated with special preparations. These funds include:
- hydrogen peroxide;
- carbamide peroxide;
- chlorhexidine digluconate.
- Antimicrobials. The use of such drugs is advisable for re-infection of the mucosa. This method is invasive and is not used for young children.
Using folk recipes for the treatment of children's stomatitis, it should be remembered that not all medicinal plants are equally useful for the child's body. Many of these can be poisonous or toxic to a child. Before you start using medicines from traditional therapy recipes, you should agree them with your doctor.
Folk methods include rinsing with decoctions and solutions.
In the next video, you will find a “sweet” recipe for stomatitis from nettle and honey, which children will definitely like:
How to help adults
It is possible to treat stomatitis in an adult, both with the help of medicines and traditional medicine recipes. Drug therapy for stomatitis in adults is similar to pediatric treatment. To combat the disease, creams, gels, ointments, as well as tablets and capsules are used.
Before an adult begins to treat stomatitis, he needs to give up smoking and alcohol. Otherwise, therapy will be ineffective.
Also important diet, do not eat sour, salty or sweet: such food provokes the reproduction of pathogenic bacteria, causes pain.
Traditional medicine for adults is slightly different from recipes for children. The most popular recipes are listed below.
Use of soda
Soda is an amazing tool that is used in cooking, everyday life and for the treatment of certain diseases, which include stomatitis. The use of this substance helps to reduce pain and accelerates the healing process of mouth ulcers.
In addition, it has the following useful properties:
- Destroys pathogenic bacteria, acts as an effective antiseptic.
- Helps to neutralize the increased acidity of the mouth.
Treatment of stomatitis with soda is safe for the health of both adults and children, including newborns..
As a medicine, soda is used for rinsing the mouth, wiping wounds and ulcers with a gauze swab dipped in soda, single ulcers can simply be sprinkled with “healing powder”. Procedures should be performed regularly, 3-5 times a day until complete recovery.
Disease prevention
Everyone knows that any disease is easier to prevent than to treat it later. In order to prevent stomatitis, the following requirements should be met:
- follow the rules of oral hygiene;
- eat right, take vitamins;
- harden the body;
- avoid hypothermia and infections;
- avoid burns of the mucous membranes of the mouth (do not drink hot drinks and do not eat hot food).
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