What are the contraindications for oral ulcers?

The first thing to avoid for oral ulcers is foods that are highly irritating, highly abrasive and hard, high in sugar and acid. Those widely circulated taboos on "fat foods" should be judged based on your own situation, and there is no need to apply one-size-fits-all.

Last month, I had a soybean-sized ulcer on my cheek mucosa. I didn't take it seriously at first. When I ate a crisp apple in the morning, the hard stubble rubbed directly onto the wound. The pain was so painful that I almost threw the apple out of my hand. Later at work, I was so greedy that I ordered a cup of iced Americano with triple acid. After one sip, I felt the pain in the tender flesh. The small ulcer, which was supposed to heal itself in four or five days, took almost a week to completely disappear. Think about it, the ulcer surface itself is a small wound in the oral mucosa that exposes new tissue, just like the broken skin on your hand. If you sprinkle chili pepper, rub hard residue, or soak it in strong acid, isn't that just looking for trouble for yourself?

As for the "heat-provoking" foods that many elderly people often say cannot be eaten, such as lychees, mangoes, and mutton, in fact, there is no unified conclusion in the academic community. There are two completely opposite examples around me. When my colleague Xiao Zhou had an ulcer, he did not feel any worse pain after eating lychees every time. Another friend only had to eat two If you eat a mango, the ulcer will swell on the same day. To put it bluntly, these foods themselves will not directly damage the ulcer surface. It is just that high sugar may increase local osmotic pressure, or you are sensitive to certain ingredients in this kind of food. If you are really craving for it and you don’t feel uncomfortable after taking one or two bites, there is no need to completely avoid it.

There are also many people who say that if you have an ulcer, you should drink more lemon water to replenish vitamin C and it will heal quickly. This is really a good intention but a bad thing. I stepped on this trap a while ago. I cut three or four slices of fresh lemon and soaked it in the water. , unhealed wounds exposed to high concentrations of acidic vitamin C will corrode the newly grown delicate mucous membranes and slow down the healing speed. If you really want to supplement nutrition to help recovery, it is better to eat soft steamed eggs or boiled lean meat. If you supplement enough high-quality protein, the wounds will grow faster than anything else.

Of course, you don’t need to be too tight. If you really can’t help but take two spicy bites and it hurts, just rinse your mouth with water to wash away the irritants on the wound. You don’t have to be afraid to eat or touch because of a small ulcer. As long as you don’t deliberately “abuse” the small wound, it will usually disappear on its own in about a week.