canker sores & peppermint?
#204163 - 08/10/05 09:08 AM
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jaime g
Reged: 07/27/05
Posts: 961
Loc: new york city
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i usually get a canker sore once or twice a year, but i have a sudden outbreak - two or three at once. party in my mouth. the first culprit i came to was the sour altoid sucking candies (the only hard candies i could find without HFCS) which i;d been using for donnatol dry mouth and airplaine flight ear-popping.
but when i searched old posts about this, wondering about ibs connections (either immune-system or dietary), someone mentioned mint as a possible cause - is it possible that all the strong peppermint tea we're living on could be causing these? this week i started drinking more, and i switched from celestial seasonings peppermint to a stronger, medicinal tea, which i've been brewing a lot stronger, too.
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jaime
ibs-a (mostly d) // vegetarian
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Try L-lysine
#204231 - 08/10/05 10:33 AM
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Dia
Reged: 02/04/05
Posts: 175
Loc: Tucson, AZ
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Hi, I'm not sure about the canker sore/pepermint conection, but I do know that taking the amino-acid L-lysine helps with cold sores. (I know there's a difference between canker and cold sores, but don't ask me how to tell the two apart!)
As an added bonus, L-lysine is also in the Digestive Advantage supplement, so it might even help with IBS, too!
HTH,
Myra
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...I tend to get canker sores from Kiwi fruit. There are a couple others too. I don't know the exact cause, but I always thought it was high vitamin c. Don't quote me though. Just a guess. 
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Rebecca
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whether the peppermint tea causes the sores or not, it definitely was making them hurt more. once i switched to fennel, the pain went waaay down.
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jaime
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