Reduce the effects of mouth ulcers in children

Mouth ulcers occur year round in children. This causes pain to the child and significantly affects care and feeding.

In folklore, mouth ulcers are called canker sores, which means that the body is hot, emitting heat that causes ulcers in the oral mucosa. Usually, canker sores have many ulcers, making children very uncomfortable, drooling a lot, and losing weight because they cannot eat or eat very little.

Children are often tired, have trouble sleeping or cry because of pain, especially when eating or drinking. Mouth ulcers can also be caused by the herpes virus and usually only cause one ulcer. Herpes mouth ulcers have the same symptoms as canker sores.

In addition, mouth ulcers can be caused by the varicella virus (chickenpox), the virus that causes hand, foot, and mouth disease (Coxsackie virus A16 or EV 71). Mouth ulcers caused by the varicella virus or the virus that causes hand, foot, and mouth disease, in addition to causing blisters on the skin, the mucous membranes of the palms, feet, and buttocks (hand, foot, and mouth disease), can also cause blisters on the oral mucosa. The oral mucosa caused by chickenpox or hand, foot, and mouth disease often has many blisters, ulcers, causing pain, burning, drooling, and fever.

In children, due to malnutrition or poor absorption, causing a lack of some essential micronutrients such as vitamin PP, vitamin C, vitamin B12, folic acid, iron can also cause mouth ulcers. Mouth ulcers can also be caused by trauma causing inflammation, crushing of the oral mucosa (the child falls and hits the mouth area) or can be caused by eating food or drinking water that is too hot, burning, ulcerating the oral mucosa causing pain. Older children who are constantly stressed can also cause mouth ulcers.

Mouth ulcers have many different causes. Some are simple (canker sores) but some can cause dangerous complications. Therefore, when children have mouth ulcers, they should be taken to the doctor to determine the cause.

Mouth ulcers cause pain and burning, so using painkillers for children is very necessary, but the type of medicine that is suitable for each child is the job of the examining doctor. Parents should not buy medicine to treat their children themselves. Children should be given liquid, pureed food (porridge, soup, nutritional powder), not hot, not spicy, not sour and best of all, it should suit the child's daily taste.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Khac Hau - Tien Phong - nt