With the advent of summer, it is easy to get hot and get angry, and an autoimmune disease quietly invades the human oral cavity.
Oral ulcers, commonly known as "mouth sores", are described as "breathing pains", and patients feel uncomfortable when eating, drinking, or even talking and breathing.
The 60-year-old Auntie Zhang has suffered from oral ulcers for many years. Multiple oval ulcers with central depressions like "bullet craters" and burning, red and swollen ulcers often appear on the tongue and lower lip.
"Don't underestimate the repeated oral ulcers, and be careful to suffer from stubborn recurrent oral ulcers." Rankin practiced medicine for more than 40 years, focusing on the treatment of immune diseases with traditional Chinese medicine.
In his view, the repeated attacks of oral ulcers are mainly due to the self-injury of the oral mucosa caused by the autoimmune dysfunction of the human body, and are also affected by local trauma, genetics, microorganisms and other factors.
"It's like a local war in the human body, the phenomenon of self-killing due to hyperimmunity."
Recurrent oral ulcers have a long course of disease, repeated symptoms, and obvious pain, which makes patients complain for days and days.
"At first, I thought that aphthous ulcers were a trivial matter, and the pain would heal for a few days. I didn't expect that one suffering would last for several years. Recently, the symptoms have become more and more serious, sometimes affecting the normal diet, and the quality of life has dropped a lot." Aunt Zhang said helplessly.
After consultation, Lan Jinchu judged that Aunt Zhang suffered from oral recurrent oral ulcers. Due to the ineffectiveness of repeated treatment for many years, the lesions were deep.
He explained that recurrent oral ulcers can be divided into mild, oral and peri-glandular types. The mild type often occurs in one or two places on the tongue and gums. ; The peri-glandular type is more stubborn, and ulcers often appear around the salivary gland holes in the mouth.
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to syndrome differentiation and treatment, and treats different types of symptoms according to the classification: the wind-heat and spleen type is mainly ulcerated in the lips, and traditional Chinese medicines can be taken to disperse wind, disperse fire, clear heat and detoxify; Prescriptions for clearing the heart and cooling blood, purging fire and detoxifying are appropriate; for multiple oral ulcerations of the floating fire type, it can nourish yin, reduce fire, and induce fire to return to the original source.
It is generally summarized as triple therapy that modulates immune function, antiviral and anti-infection.
Aunt Zhang took the traditional Chinese medicine for three months as prescribed by the doctor.
Rankinchu reminded that there is a disease that likes to pretend to be recurrent oral ulcers in the early stage of the disease. If it is misdiagnosed and delayed, it may be life-threatening.
This is "cunning" Behcet's syndrome, a systemic immune system disease. On the basis of repeated oral ulcers, patients will experience symptoms such as eye discomfort, genital ulcers, erythematous nodules in the subcutaneous tissue of the lower limbs, and joint pain.
Because the initial symptoms are very similar to those of aphthous ulcers, and other symptoms are relatively hidden, there is a certain misdiagnosis rate.
"The repeated attacks of oral ulcers must not be tolerated. Seek medical treatment in time to find out the cause."
In addition, Rankinchu also instructed patients to eat less hard food to prevent scratching the oral mucosa, avoid cooking food such as scorching, stir-frying, fire-roasting and deep-frying as much as possible, drinking less alcohol, and eating less spicy and irritating food, so as to ensure the balance of oral flora. It can also reduce the occurrence of ulcers.
Intern reporter He Rui