Canker Sores

Canker sores are never fun and a treatment for it, which also isn't fun, is gargle salt water. It tastes really bad and you definitely won't like it. I mean it leaves a bad taste in your mouth for a while, but if you do gargle salt water I think it cleans it out a little bit and it makes that it can heal quicker. You'll be able to overcome it quicker, I guess, even though it kind of sucks while you're doing it. You'll feel better real quick, so definitely gargle some salt water and it'll feel better.

For canker sores, I actually do one of two things usually. I will, you know, wherever it is, I will take a little piece of toothpaste on my finger and kind of try to like mat it on there. Yes, I know this will not last, but I just do it right before bed. So I brush my teeth and I'm not gonna do anything else in my mouth and I'll just kind of put it on there and then go to bed and try to just keep it there as long as I can. Or I'll do the same thing with baking soda. It's just a little pinch of baking soda and kind of just mat it there. It doesn't stick there all night. I mean, it doesn't last forever, but I really do feel like that that gets it to go away significantly quicker. It's worth a try.

I am a person that gets canker sores all the time and they're usually really really bad and any over-the-counter treatment or at-home remedy has never worked for me. I've tried them all, I promise you. So there's one thing that does help me and it's called Debacterol, D-E-B-A-C-T-E-R-O-L. It is, the way I get it, it comes in a little q-tip basically and you kind of break it and all medication floods into the tip of the q-tip kind of like a glow stick and then after drying your canker sore area you hold this q-tip end with the medication to it for I think like 30 seconds and it literally like burns it off. It doesn't, it sounds painful but it doesn't hurt and then after you do that the canker sore is gone. It is amazing. You can get it prescribed from your doctor but it's kind of tricky so see if you can get it. I recommend it.

My dad is a dentist and he has this like paste thing that you can put on a kinkersaur and it will just like burn it alive essentially and then it reduces the amount of time that you have the kinkersaur. So instead of it being like a week-long thing you have the kinkersaur for like a day longer and then it disappears, though it is very painful. I don't know if this is actually like a real option considering that my dad is my dentist so I could just ask him for it but maybe you could try asking your dentist if they have a similar concoction and they can help you out to burn them off. I also tend to get really swollen lips. I get them like on the inner part of my lips right here and so my lips will swell up super big and it'll be puffy and it makes it hard to drink and eat and different things. So anyways if that's something that you experience as well, I've noticed that using a red light helps a lot. I just like hold the red light up to my lips and it's known to help with swelling and different things so that has been helpful for me in the past.

One of the things I've had the most success with when it comes to treating canker sores is brushing my teeth with baking soda. Apparently, that can help reduce the acidity of your mouth, which apparently can help with canker sores. I didn't hear that from a doctor, I got it from the internet, but if you, you know, brushing your teeth with baking soda is usually a pretty good way to go even if you don't have canker sores. So, you know, it couldn't hurt to try it. I still wouldn't recommend swallowing it, but I mean, even if you do, you should be okay.

So when I get canker sores, sometimes I will kind of gargle with salt water, and that sometimes seems to help. The salt water just stings like crazy, but then when I rinse out my mouth with regular water afterwards, it feels a little bit numb, kind of like I killed some of the nerves cells or something, and it doesn't hurt as much. But I recently had a canker sore that I think was from eating too many chips. I had a lot of chips. That one I think salt caused it, and I tried to gargle with salt, but I actually seemed to make it worse because it seemed like salt was the culprit in that case, whereas fruit and veggies are usually the culprit in other cases for me, or sweets. Another treatment that I have used as far as managing the pain of a canker sore is to put on like Kink Aid or something you can dab on the canker sore. It stings briefly, but then it kind of numbs the area.

One thing that you can do is I like to swish around salt water in my mouth. That helps relieve a lot of the pain of a canker sore.