Ulcers are common and i am sure everyone get them once a while.

Even though it is something common but it is agonizing especially when it happens in the tongue.

Long long time ago I bit my tongue. Since then ulcers come and go whenever i ate too much heaty food. It only happens like twice a year but it still is very very very very painful. I can't even speak properly because it is very very very painful. I especially hate it because it cannot be cured anymore. It will just come and go as it please. Like that part of my tongue is it's holiday villa.

Anyway, what are the common solution for ulcers that you use?

Those that I know includes:

- leave it for a week and it will die off (but painful)
- bonjela (pain and useless)
- topical steroid cream, Kenalog (protect against pain but only last 30 min or less)
- watermelon dust (no use)
- salt (super duper painful but most effective)

I usually leave it to die off except when it is very very very painful. I will apply salt. It is so painful when rubbing salt on it until that ulcer region will be numb. I also did tried squeezing on the ulcer and blood will come out of it. However, this will make the ulcer grow even bigger. Ouch.

What are your methods for curing this very very very painful mo-fu*****?

Ouch...my tongue.

This post has been edited by abubin: Feb 24 2010, 03:42 PM

for me its either the salt thing or some dettol antiseptic liquid (using cotton buds).

also if u have gambir sarawak it can be use to numb the pain.
thats the only other use of that gambir i can think of other than .......

hm..salt sounds painful, gotta try that one of this days. anyway i usually let it alone, as the pain's not that much and i dont usually eat spicy things so it wont really affect me much....except when brushing teeth.

lot of similar topic for ulcer has been posted before...maybe you can find your answer here

well, if i realized i am having an ulcer, i avoid eating food that can make it worst and drink a lot a lot of water..

most of the time, if it's just a tiny one, i use Bonjela..

but if those bonjela cant heal ones, i put salt! but of course, i dont squeeze it...

i can bear the pain!

This post has been edited by Jenny de Jam: Feb 24 2010, 09:41 AM

pls use watermelon frost if u hav ulcers..u can get it in any chinese medicine store...

if you read the 1st post..you should already know TS try this watermelon frost and it cant cure his ulcer~

Ulcer is a wound. It is not a growth or inflamation that you squeeze it 'til it bleeds. You go squeeze it until bleeding, sure lah the wound increase in size. Duh!

Best is not to mess with it. Drink lots of water, and let the wound heal.

Hmm...i did make a search before posting but i uses the forum's search and found only one not so related one. Oh well, guess I should use google search next time.

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Added on February 24, 2010, 12:32 pmeven drinking water is painful now. bad bad bad CNY and all the CNY food...dried meat, pastries, kueh kepit, chocolates, prawn crackers.....ahhhh

This post has been edited by abubin: Feb 24 2010, 12:32 PM

I like the salt route myself. Pain is not as bad as period pain, really.

Wussies

put the watermelon powder... not pain.. very shiok shiok

i use salt, the ulcer will get better the next day

forget about the forum search...useless one...

try the google search at the main page...

wah u tembak terus. hehehehe....well u cant blame him wat...u have had ur period pain since god knows how long.
tat poor fella wants to know the best way to remedy his ulser that got bigger cause he had to pinch it.

Salt is one way and the other is drinking plenty of water (by straw if it can help avoid the pain). try putting ice and see wat happens. Relief for a moment then pain after tat.

topical steroid cream, Kenalog is good. quite expensive. you can buy from pharmacy.

Oral Aid might help too.

as for salt, i don't think it's wise to rub salt on the wound. instead, dilute the salt in water, then gargle with it. this also works well for sore throats.

while the top 3 does work for me, usually i will just keep my mouth dry. try breathing with your mouth when you're sleeping. also remember to drink lots of water. so u pandai pandai balance your time lah ok =)

hope this will help.

yeah, the kenalog was good when I started using it when i was still a kid. Now, it's like doesn't work anymore. Maybe my ulcers immune to it already.

have you seek doctor advice on your ulcer?..tell him/her about your ulcer history..and also let the doctor know about kenalog orabase have no effect on you anymore...i think he will give you a stronger medicine to put on...

FYI, kenalog is some kind of cortisteroid medicine..it's consider quite a strong effect medicine compare to those over the counter ulcer paste..

Me also use watermelon powder only. For me its more effective than putting salt or bonjela.

Wao never knew watemelon powder can use for ulcer.... al this time i use salt... pain like hell

It's always salt and it's really painful at the spur of the moment.

watermelon frost is a chinese medicine. You won't know if you are not chinese or doesn't go to chinese pharmacy.

It does sooth the pain a little but need constant application.

Anyway, salt is most effective but pain like hell. After 2 days of applying salt, my tongue got better now. Maybe apply for 1 more today to be sure.

ouch! salt is painful, why not try gargle wif salt water

same as me too.. i'll usually put watermelon powder more then bonjela. Bonjela just will makes ur ulser temporary not pain only.. after 10 min the pain came back again
if want prevent ur body heaty so fast, drink more "leong cha" or drink watermelon juice or eat watermelon also very good too ur body need "leong" think to cure the heaty on the body. otherwise ulser la, fever la, sore throat la.. everything also come out especially this CNY festival + the super duper hot weather

drink more water WATER IS GOOD

hi i'm not to sure what the medicine is called in english but for extreme case of ulcer and if i want to get it sorted out quickly i.e within the next day i would use " Seah chou" - literal translation would be snake grass.

not to sure whats it called in english but it helps and its painless.

wait let me check out what is that herb/medicine is called first in english..

after 30 min ....

oh yeah its called Neem. basically its grounded neem leaf to a powder form .

quite effective if u ask me

wow..first time hear about neem. Can provide more info like where to buy and how to apply? Will try this on my next ulcer problem.

this is so wrong. once it bleed means there is open wound and it's easily infected by bacteria. that's why it grows bigger!

have you tried orrepaste? it's very effective. trust me.

tried it once haha.


i hate ulcers.

ORAL AID cream, geddit from your physician.

Eat laksa..

Let "poison" kill "poison".

It works sometimes...

Bonjela pretty useless... haha...Using it now... 2 days already..small ulcer also cannot cure.

Try to get more sleep hours... Perhaps not enough sleeping too.

Salt is a killer...but it doesn't work all the time.

Got rough salt & salt powder.

Sorry to ask this after so long, but is it those very fufu (bitter) powder drinks they sell at those chinese drink stalls?

Anyway I got one nasty ulcer near my throat which is hard to reach and very painful...

salt is the best way to deal with ulcer. It's painful. There's no need to rub. Just put a pinch on that area. Salt can be use for sore throat. Very effective. Just put some in water and gargle.

i'll usually apply salt and then gargle my mouth with listerins to keep my mouth clean and bacteria free so that the wound would heal faster

i can say tat i'm one of those who have ulcers pretty frequently and it's pretty frustrating tat i constantly have to deal with the pain and irritation especially when i eat. 10 times in a year is not uncommon.
i have met one doctor and he has recommended me to take a medicine called nature's biotics and he says tat it is to help to provide my liver with good bacteria (dun ask me y!) and from there it helps prevent any ulcer growth. from there i constantly take and guess what, the ulcer is history.
i seldom have ulcer nowadays...

forget about bonjela, salt etc etc.

Get a small bottle of Tea Tree Oil from the pharmacy. Put 1-2 drops in a cup and add in some lukewarm water. Rinse your mouth thoroughly with the solution before you go to sleep. No more pain the next day..

If you have any doubts, you can check the instructions that comes in the package. It is recommended for ulcers and it's stated there.

This post has been edited by narveenp: May 8 2010, 12:43 AM

I prefer Solcosedyl dental paste or Orrepaste. They are equally good.

neem leaf can be dried under the sun and ground to powder form, next close it with plastic capsule which can be bought in medicine shop. when you feel body heaty take 2 capsule. Take it only when nessesary.

i have frequent mouth and tongue ulces since teenage and until now it is still an issue for me...

Normally i will use Oral Aids..it helps numb the wound but the effectiveness is not so high as when u swallow saliva it will just reduce the numbness...

Another method is traditional way, my mum will boil some kind of water with the dried mandarin orange / one type of guava skin (really dark color type) and you use the water to rinse...it really numb the wound and the ulcer can be cure way faster than usual.....

oh.. i'm having the same condition as you were.. -.-.. sometimes more than 3 or 4 ulcers in the mouth
sometimes when i'm lazy-.-, i'll just let it be, but drink more water and it eventually heals (around 3 days for small ulcer.. more than a week for serious one-.-)..
however, sometimes when i couldn't stand the irritation, i apply salt on that area.. just as what has been mentioned above, a pinch and a tap on the ulcer, NOT rub/scrub/whatever vigorous motion as it's so not an applicable method... and guess what, salt makes wonder yo..

so, think again.. to be lazy or not to be?

about sore throat, IMO gargling with salt water is the best and fastest way..

This post has been edited by J_zen: May 14 2010, 01:32 AM

i consume vitamin C and the ulcer disappear after 2 days.

too much of vitamin c can also cause ulcer, i heard

apply salt is the most effective way for me.

hey bro...can give me more info on this nature's biotics? i am now almost 30yo and i still suffered frequent mouth and tongue ulcers!!!!

it's not reasonable

drink much mineral water lo..for me 1 of da reson is high body tmperature..

to me applying salt is the most painful way of 'healing' the ulcer.
it's pain beyond pain, n probably ur pain cells are all dead after the application which is y u think it helps.

@brian_3214
if u have bought anything from cosway before, u would know they do sell this product as shown in their magazine, around rm70+ per bottle (i'm not advertising nor selling here). the doc who recommended me this told me before he gave me this medicine tat it's a direct sale product and it's optional for me whether to take or not. I was really frustrated with the frequent ulcer and i just wanted to give anything a try and I have to say i thank him for tat. apparently liver plays an important part to fight off mouth ulcer by producing good bacteria. this is how it looks like:

http://www.detoxyourworld.com/acatalog/naures_biotics.html

btw our country's weather does play a part bcoz the bacteria in the infection really likes the warm and humid weather here. when i was studying in the uk, i had no ulcers at all. zero. when i came back, BOOM.

This post has been edited by janson_kaniaz: May 19 2010, 02:43 PM