Hi! Can anyone recommend any suggestions for really bad mouth sores? My mom is getting a lot of canker sores in her mouth, it’s starting to affect her ability to eat, not much is helping. Any suggestions or prescriptions that have worked for others that we can ask our doctor for? We already have the liquid lidocaine rinse.
Thanks!
I’ve not had this myself so I asked a friend of mine had trouble with this. She used Biotine to rinse several times a day. While the sores healed she ate lots of soft foods; applesauce, ice cream, pudding, fruit smoothies, gelato, Cream of Wheat, that kind of thing. Things she didn’t need to chew. Cold or cool things worked best.
Hope this helps.
If the over the counter stuff doesn't help, maybe ask your mom's doctor about prescribing Chlorhexidine Gluconate 0.12% Oral Rinse, USP (taken directly off the label of my bottle).
She can also try Orajel Mouth Rinse. When I get the sores, I usually use my prescription stuff and the over the counter Orajel mouth rinse in between.
Hi KatherineK. Sugar makes sore worse is my experience. Try plain yogurt. And rice soup. Chinese restaurant has it. Easy to make. Cook rice a long time and add veggies and st the end miso. A paste you can get most places. And some organic tofu.
Are you in the UK? Lignocaine spray was given to me at the hospital, but whilst it works, it’s like industrial strength stuff and in effect works too well. It needs to be more dilute or something. However, having suffered from mouth ulcers well before lung cancer and ongoing treatments, I came across some stuff whilst in Japan called Purple Shot. It’s very good indeed and actually tastes OK. I tried to get an equivalent in the UK with no joy at all, but I now import it for my own use directly from Japan from a supplier called Bloomgreen and via Rakuten (which is a bit like Amazon and is pleasingly reliable). The website can be set to appear in English and the people who send the emails etc. are helpful. It tends to be a bit slow to obtain the stuff because of the necessary currency exchange rate delay with emails telling you exactly how much it will cost (they’re very thorough the Japanese, but that’s reassuring) never mind the inevitable air shipment time. I have found Purple Shot is very reasonably priced, but watch out for import duty getting a bit steep if you import more than about 5 or 6 sprays at a time. The little pump action sprays are very well made although there isn’t a word of English on them! An order usually costs me about £20 for maybe 5 or 6 sprays which lasts me about 6 months or more.
I tried but failed to interest an importer into getting them printed in English for the UK market because I swear there’s a market out there for lots of people who suffer from the misery of mouth ulcers and for whom the plethora of mouth washes are a waste of time ... as I have found.
I finally worked out what the active ingredient is and it has many different names, but the most understandable (and I was an industrial chemist!) is sodium gualenate.
Sorry to go on at length, but I hope this will be of some help.
Neil
In fact, here’s a link for the Purple Shot mouth ulcer treatment.
Neil
Ask your onc to prescribe magic mouthwash. Magic mouthwash usually contains at least three of these basic ingredients:
* An antibiotic to kill bacteria around the sore
* An antihistamine or local anesthetic to reduce pain and discomfort
* An antifungal to reduce fungal growth
* A corticosteroid to treat inflammation
* An antacid that helps ensure the other ingredients adequately coat the inside of your mouth
Most formulations of magic mouthwash are intended to be used every four to six hours, and to be held in your mouth for one to two minutes before being either spit out or swallowed. It's recommended that you don't eat or drink for 30 minutes after using magic mouthwash so that the medicine has time to produce an effect.
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