what is the home remedy or OTC medicine for canker sores?
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Canker sores tend to occur because of stress, illness, weakened immune system, injury caused by such things as hot food, rough brushing of teeth, or dentures.\n\nYou can use some essentials oils to soothe the pain and increase healing time such as Melissa, sandalwood, melaleuca quienquenervia.  Or you can mix sage withe either clove or lavender or sage with an essential oil blend produced by Young Living called thieves.\n\nGolden seal root powder taken internally can also help as well as an immune system supportive supplement called ImmuPro also produced by Young Living.\n\nIf you choose to try essential oils in a therapeutic context, please make sure they are of therapeutic-grade.  If you have difficulty finding them, feel free to contact me for further information.
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I use the orange flavored Listerine.  Works pretty good and it gets the bacteria out of the sore.
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Make sure that your oral care products (toothpaste, mouthwash, etc) do not contain sodium laurel sulfate.  This is a mild detergent that can aggravate canker sores.  Take a B-vitamin supplement, and try an OTC topical oral analgesic with benzocaine and tannin or tannic acid. Benzocaine will numb the pain and the tannin will coat the ulcer, allowing it to heal faster.
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Canker sores are generally caused by your body's pH being too alkaline.  Vitamin C is an acid and will reduce the pH to normal levels, just take normal doses and you'll see results in about two days, sometimes less if you've had the sores a few days prior to beginning treatment.\n\nCreams and balsm just take the edge off the pain but don't do much more than that.  Avoid any home remedies such as placing honey on it, or gargling with vinegar as that will irritate the sore and make matters worse.\n\nOnce iItried this I added a vitamin C tablet to my morning routine and no more canker sores!
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Use listerine and get a tongue scraper.  And drink LOTS of water.
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Canker soar. Swish some warm salt water in your mouth. It's gonna taste nasty, but it works. Medically proven. It's not a wives tale.
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Although I don't necessarily know the cause of the canker sores, I get them all the time and have found the following things to help keep them away:\n1. It seems that when I use a conventional brand of toothpaste, like crest or colgate, I get them more often.  I have read that sodium lauryl sulfate is common in toothpaste and can lead to more canker sores.  I use Jason brand toothpastes, which helps a lot.\n2. I've also read that yogurt contains healthy bacteria which can fight off whatever causes canker sores.  When I eat yogurt daily, I tend to get fewer canker sores.  \n3. Stress seems to be linked to canker sores for me.  When I am stressed I am more likely to get them.  \nFrom using the different toothpaste and eating yogurt on a regular basis as well as reducing my stress in life, I have very few canker sores and most that I do get know start when I bite the inside of my mouth or lip.\n\nHope this helps
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Goldenseal is very useful for mouth and gum problems.  Goldenseal contains berberine, an antibiotic with broad spectrum antibacteria and antiprotozoa activity.\nPlace powdered goldenseal directly on the sore.\n\nAlso, you can use a mouthwash of yarrow tea. (1 part juice, 2 parts water)\nYou can find the juice at health food stores.
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Clove oil as a natural remedy, or Ambusol if you do not care whether or not it is a natural cure. You just have to put a drop where the pain is.\nIf you have lost a filling, there is a temporary filling you can buy over the counter as well.
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There's a variety:\n\nGargle with warm salt water,\nGargle with half water, half hydrogen peroxide\nTylenol or ibuprofen\n\nIf home remedies don't cure it, see your doctor--it could be an infection like strep.
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If you want to stop tooth pain and put your dentist out of business forever, the remedy is very simple.  No, it's not clove oil, or lavendar tincture, or anything else.  Rather, it comes in a brown plastic bottle, costs as little as a $1.50 for 16 ounces, and has been found in nearly every household for a hundred years:\n\nHydrogen Peroxide.  Take a mouthful and hold it in ur mouth for as long as you can---particularly around the sore tooth if you can and then spit it out.  Do this a few times a day for two or three days at most and the toothache will be gone--forever.  If you continue to do it as a daily routine, you'll also notice that your gums stop receding and actually build back up, your teeth get whiter, your mouth feels fresher and you don't get any cavities anymore.  Hydrogen Peroxide laughs at bacteria and then kicks the hell out of it.  You'd hear far more about it if the established medical community could make money off of it, but they can't.  It cannot be patented and is hopelessly inexpensive to produce.  Plus, if you also use it in your ears as well as a mouth rinse/gargle, you'll rarely get sick, if ever, and will rarely have allergies if you suffer from them.  The bubbling in your mouth, ears etc. is the Hydrogen Peroxide breaking down into Oxygen--bacteria's No. 1 enemy.  If any of you have children, and they start feeling ill, put a capful in their ears--bye bye flu, cold etc.  It's powerful stuff.
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i Used to get so many canker sores.  But then i switched to this tooth paste.  See I was at the health food store, and like complaining about my canker sores or seomthing, and this random guy was like, try this toothpaste; it doesn't have <insert weird ingredient i can't remember right now here>.  So I did, and I have gotten like three canker sores in the past year.  I think it is called SeaFresh.  It's Sea something.
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Canker sores are shallow, painful sores in your mouth. They are usually red or may sometimes have a white coating over them. You might get them on the inside of your lips, the insides of your cheeks, the base of your gums or under your tongue. Canker sores are different from fever blisters, which usually are on the outside of your lips or the corners of your mouth.\n\nAnyone can get canker sores, but women people in their teens and 20s get them more often. Canker sores may run in families, but they aren't contagious. Doctors don't know what causes canker sores, but they may be triggered by stress, poor nutrition, food allergies and menstrual periods.\n\n\nWhat should I do when I get canker sores? \nCanker sores usually go away without any treatment. For pain relief, you can try taking ibuprofen (brand name: Advil) or acetaminophen (brand name: Tylenol). Other medicines, such as Anbesol, Oragel, Orabase and Zilactin-B, might keep your canker sores from becoming irritated by eating, drinking or brushing your teeth. You put these medicines right on the sore.\n\nYou can also mix equal amounts of Milk of Magnesia and Benadryl Allergy liquid. After it's mixed, you can swish a teaspoonful in your mouth for about 1 minute and then spit it out. If you do this every 4 to 6 hours, your canker sores may hurt less.
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Let's see,\nWhat is the cause of canker sores? Oral herpes virus? Yes. Now where do you get a virus? From someone else? Also Yes. \n\nSo the moral of the story is NEVER SHARE something that has been in the mouth of another person. Drink your OWN soda. Buy a new toothbrush and hide it. Keep your fingers and hands OUT of your mouth. Don't go around licking crap. Don't kiss anyone - well lol unless your partner hasn't kissed ANYONE ELSE. \n\nProper hygiene wouldn't be a bad idea either. Keeping your eating hand free of pathogens could go a long way to ease your immune system. \n\nDon't buy into all the trauma crap. You would need a serious blow to the jaw to fracture the blood barrier in your mouth causing the familiar pus-like sore.
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A touch of Melaleuca oil (tea tree) and the sore will stop hurting and start healing. Even if you feel it and do not see it yet it will stop it instantly.
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Gargle with salt water (one teaspoon salt in about 3 oz of water) several times a day and use over-the-counter Orajel or something similar to it. See your dentist as soon as possible.