What should I do if my child has a sore mouth due to inflammation?

In our lives, it is not difficult to find that sometimes ulcers appear at the corners of the mouth. This is medically known as angular cheilitis, which is a disease caused by excessive heat in the body. Of course, angular cheilitis is not a single disease, but a general term for multiple diseases, including non-acute angular cheilitis, fungal angular cheilitis, etc. So, what should we do when angular cheilitis occurs in children?

1. Folk remedies

(1) Wash the affected area at the corner of your mouth with rice water 3 times a day.

(2) Clean the affected corners of your mouth with light salt water. After they are dry, apply the pre-ground vitamin B2 to the corners of your mouth, once after meals and before bedtime. It will usually take three days to take effect.

(3) Take vitamin B2, 2-4 mg three times a day. In addition, take vitamin B complex, 1-2 tablets three times a day.

(4) You can pierce the cod liver oil tube, squeeze out the oil and apply it to the sore corners of your mouth. You can also crush the vitamin B2 into a fine powder and sprinkle it on the affected area.

(5) If you are deficient in vitamin B2 and cod liver oil pills, you can also use the overflow water from steamed rice or persimmon cream to treat it. Apply them to the affected area twice a day and it can also be cured.

(6) If the corners of the mouth are cracked and bleeding, the wound should be washed with warm water or salt water first. After it is slightly dry, apply antibiotic ointment, such as chloramphenicol ointment, or use cod liver oil riboflavin paste and take riboflavin orally. When scabs begin to form on the wound, do not tear off the dry scabs forcibly. Let them heal on their own and then fall off. If combined with Candida albicans infection, 5% clotrimazole ointment can be applied externally.

2. Treatment Misunderstandings

(1) Keep giving your child water

Letting children drink a lot of water in a short period of time will indeed have a "diuretic" effect, but it will also reduce the body's water content and aggravate the dehydration condition.

(2) Apply gentian violet to your child yourself

Applying gentian violet will make the corners of the mouth drier, aggravate the cracks, and even cause blisters, ulcers, erosions and whitening around the child's mouth, and even bleeding.

(3) Apply toothpaste, lotion, or balm to your child

These may cause secondary local skin infection.

Correct approach: If you find your child's lips are dry, apply a little borax glycerin, lip balm or cooking oil to prevent cracking, and take vitamin B2, 1-2 tablets 3 times a day. If erosion and inflammation have occurred, apply 75% alcohol or 0.2% iodine to the corners of your mouth twice a day.