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What disease does oral ulcer predict?

Oral ulcer, commonly known as aphtha, seems to be a small problem, but it is not. When oral ulcer breaks out, it will cause severe pain, affect eating and sleeping, and make people depressed. Oral ulcer can be a disease or a symptom of other diseases. There are many reasons for oral ulcers. For example, frequent staying up late, fatigue, excessive pressure, lack of sleep, etc. can cause oral ulcers; Some women will have oral ulcers before and after menstruation, which is mainly caused by hormonal changes of menstrual women. Bacteria, viruses and other microbial infections in the mouth can cause oral ulcers; Malnutrition or not eating vegetables and fruits for a long time, lack of iron, zinc, vitamin B 12 and folic acid in the body, are also prone to oral ulcers. Traumatic ulcers are common, such as dental caries, malocclusion of upper and lower teeth, wearing braces, chewing hard objects such as betel nut, hot food stimulation such as hot pot, etc. These factors are easy to cause oral mucosal ulcers.

For most people, oral ulcers will heal themselves within 1-2 weeks. If you haven't healed yourself for more than three weeks, you should pay attention to it. Because in addition to the above factors, oral ulcer may indicate some diseases, that is to say, the clinical manifestations of some diseases.

1. Behcet's disease is a very common rheumatic immune disease vasculitis. The main symptoms include: 1. Recurrent oral ulcer will affect the patient's eating when the pain is severe; Second, there are eye diseases, such as conjunctivitis, iritis, iridocyclitis; Third, other symptoms, such as erythema nodosum, acupuncture reaction, multiple acne and so on.

2. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus About 18% ~ 54% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are accompanied by oral mucosal ulcers, which can be the first symptom of systemic lupus erythematosus, mostly in hard or soft palate, nasal mucosa and even respiratory mucosa. Ulcers are often painless and can only be found by careful examination. Gradually developing to deep ulcer or full mouth ulcer will cause obvious pain.

3. Sjogren's syndrome Sjogren's syndrome is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that invades exocrine glands, especially salivary glands and lacrimal glands. Can cause dry mouth, dry eyes, recurrent oral ulcers, dental caries, joint muscle pain and other symptoms. If recurrent oral ulcer is accompanied by dry eyes, dry mouth and other symptoms, lip mucosa biopsy should be done in time to make sure.

4. Oral cancer Generally speaking, recurrent oral ulcers are benign lesions with few malignant changes. However, some oral cancers can be manifested as oral ulcers, and oral ulcers of malignant tumors have no self-healing trend. They grow up gradually and are fixed in one place, and there is no recurrence trend. Squamous cell carcinoma is more common in oral cancer.

5. Oral tuberculosis Oral tuberculous ulcers are mostly the result of the direct spread of open tuberculosis, which occurs in soft palate, buccal mucosa and back of tongue. Ulcer is shallower than cancerous ulcer, with soft base, no infiltration and induration, wide range and clear boundary. There is mulberry granuloma at the base, and anti-tuberculosis treatment is effective.

6. Digestive system ulcers Oral ulcers are closely related to various digestive tract diseases or dysfunction caused by gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, localized enteritis, hepatobiliary diseases and parasites. If you can't find the cause of recurrent oral ulcer nonunion, you need to do gastroscopy and colonoscopy to check the digestive system.