canker sore - General Health Message Board

tina76 · 12-14-2005, 08:26 AM

Does anyone have any good remedy for getting rid of a nasty camker sore? I have one inside my lower lip and it is extremely painful. I have been using choraseptic to numb it here and there but it doesn't last very long. My bottom teeth keep rubbing against it. Ugh! I would really appreciate any ideas.

eklektika · 12-14-2005, 08:43 AM

Either get some alum....it's a white powder that tastes absolutely terrible and put it on it for as long as you can stand it....or swish warm salt water around in your mouth....either one works fairly quickly.....that is the worst spot for one though! They always seem the toughest there!

tina76 · 12-14-2005, 08:54 AM

Can you get that powder at any drug store? I've never heard of it but I am willing to try anything! I've been starving! It starts to sting so bad when I am eating that I haven't been able to even finish a meal! I hate these things! Thanfully I very rarely get them... but this is the biggest one I've ever had. Thanks for the advice!

tina76 · 12-14-2005, 02:34 PM

I also woke up the day after the canker sore started with TERRIBLE swollen glands down all over my neck and in the back of my head. I looked up swollen glands online and several of the pages I read said they can be a side effect of mouth sores such as canker sores????? Does anyone know why you glands would swell with canker sores? That was just very surprising to me. While it says they can be a side effect of the cankers, they never say WHY they are? Does anyone know anything about this? The glands are driving me about as crazy as the canker sore. I can barely move my neck and they are so swollen you can actually see the lumps sticking out of my neck. And teh one on the back of my head is HUGE and incredibly painful....

eklektika · 12-15-2005, 07:49 AM

I would assume that's where you would get it....i just remember using it as a kid...tastes horrible but works great!.....when i was a kid it was in an orange and white container with a metal lid....that's about all i can tell ya...sorry...i don't get cankersores very often anymore so if i do i just do the salt wash thing now.

As for the glands....i think cankersores can be a sign of a weekend immune system, i know as a kid soon after a cankersore appeared often i would get sick....straight taking your vitamins now!