Treat canker sores with these home remedies

Canker sores can make even drinking water very painful. Try these remedies for quick recovery.

Even a simple sip of water can feel painful within your mouth if you have canker sores. A canker sore shows up as a yellowish, white lesion, round or an oval lesion with a red border. Canker sores can pop out on the inside of your cheeks, or your tongue or gums. Apart from stress, acidic fruits, braces and dentures can irritate your mouth to cause canker sores. While canker sores go away on their own in a few days, these home remedies can make them tolerable.

• Placing a wet tea bag on the sore can help provide some relief. The tannic acid present in tea reduces the inflammation and tea can also neutralize the acid in the mouth.
• Placing alum on the spot for a minute can also dry out the area to reduce inflammation. alum is well-known for its soothing and blood thinning property. Are you making these 10 oral health mistakes?
• Rinsing the mouth with salt water can also help ease the pain. Saltwater can reduce the pain and inflammation and heal the sore faster.
• Basil leaves are known to be effective against canker sores. These leaves not only provide quick relief from the ulcers but also prevent their recurrence. To get rid of the sores, chew 4 5 tulsi leaves after every 4 hours during the day.
• Being a potent antiseptic and anti-inflammatory agent, turmeric acts as an effective natural remedy to combat canker sores and also prevent its recurrence. Make a paste of turmeric by adding some water to a pinch of turmeric powder and apply this to the sores to get quick relief. Here are a few home remedies for all your oral health problems.

References:

[1] MacDonald, J. (2002). Canker sore remedies: CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 166(7), 884.

[2] Preeti, L., Magesh, K., Rajkumar, K., & Karthik, R. (2011). Recurrent aphthous stomatitis. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology : JOMFP, 15(3), 252 256. http://doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.86669.

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