tongue sores
#124220 - 11/21/04 02:03 AM
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rach46
Reged: 11/17/04
Posts: 8
Loc: Israel
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Does anyone have any suggestions about how to heal tongue sores? I suffer from this malaise on a weekly basis even when my IBS is not troubling me.
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My suggestion is to do warm salt water rinses. Make sure your water is really warm... not hot, but close. Use enough salt that it makes the water extremely salty... like 1-2 Tbsp of salt to 4oz of water. Rinse in your mouth for a few seconds and spit. Make sure you use your entire 4oz. and rinse every couple of hours!  
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~ Rachel (IBS-C)
If life hands you lemons, make lemonade!!
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I usually put vegemite on them. I guess it works the same way as the salt rinse, as it's really salty, plus it has vitamin B in it.
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*Emma*
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Re: tongue sores
#124548 - 11/22/04 06:26 AM
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Nelly
Reged: 08/06/04
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I take benedryl (dyphenhydromine HCl) to dry them from the inside-- It's a trick my dermotologist taught me which is great for any open sores which you otherwise wouln't want to put anything on top of. I take one when I get up, one at lunch, then one before bedtime. It cuts the healing time for me by 1-3 days. 
~nelly~
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