STOMATITIS

Small wounds or blisters appear in the mouth and the tongue. In some peoples, blisters go on appearing in the mouth again and again. In this condition, the patient feels difficulty in eating food, drinking water, speaking, etc. 

Cause-

• Stomatitis occurs due to internal disordering of the body and sometimes also due to taking solid (tough) eatables. 
• Stomatitis occurs due to several types of internal disordering of the body. When food is not able to digest well due to disordering of the duodenum, constipation occurs and then blisters or wounds appear inside the mouth. It also appears by burning sensation of the mouth due to eating hot things. Stomatitis also appears due to improper cleanliness of the teeth, taking additional mercury, lime or sugar; lack of vitamin-B; by taking non-nutritive diet, living in dirty and polluted places, blood poisoning, etc. 
• In fair sexes, it occurs due to abnormal menstrual secretion. It also occurs due to infection of a suffered person. It occurs due to taking additional liquor, chewing gutka, smoking, by using medicines like anti-biotic, etc. 

Symptom-

• When the membrane covering the mouth from inside becomes red after swelling, wounds appears with pain. After that, pus start to form in these wounds, called 'Stomatitis'. In the case of stomatitis, small eruptions appear inside the mouth or on the tongue. The bottom of blisters or wounds becomes white. In the case of stomatitis, additional saliva starts to come out from the mouth with burning sensation and pain in it. Due to blisters inside the mouth, offensive smell starts to come out from the mouth; the tongue gets swelling after changing into red and the gums and the palate are also swollen. If these blisters persist for a long time, bleeding starts especially at the time of eating. In the condition of infection, blisters also appear with fever. 
• What should we do or not in the case of stomatitis:-
• Do not eat salty, spicy, sour, oily, ghee, etc. food in the case of stomatitis.
• Taking enough sweet things is very harmful.
• Do not take liquor, smoking and gutka.
• To cure disease by himself, anti-biotic medicines should not be used.
• Brush your teeth well with soft brush slowly after eating food.
• Take diet containing vitamin B and using lemon in this disease is very useful.
• Mix the powder of Kali-fluor 1x or Borax in hot water and then gargling with this water is beneficial. 

Treatment of this disease by following drugs:

1. Mercurius- If blood comes out from the mouth and additional saliva comes out with appearing wounds, taking Mercurius is very useful. 
2. Kali-fluor:- If wounds have appeared on the tongue; the internal section of the mouth has become red and offensive smell comes from the mouth, Kali-fluor 1x should be used.  If blisters have appeared inside the mouth due to eating spicy food and additional saliva comes out from the mouth, etc., taking Kali-cloricum 2 to 6 is very effective. 
3. Borax:- If different types of symptoms related to the mouth are found in the patient like- appearing wounds in the mouth, inside the cheek, getting little injury or bleeding from the body as normally, feeling dryness and heat inside the mouth, etc., use powder of Borax 3x or 6x.  If red eruptions appear on the tongue with wounds and blisters, patient has difficulty in eating salty and bitter things. Thus, Borax is used in such symptoms.  It is also beneficial in the condition of pungent taste of the mouth.Borax is used to cure normal blister of the mouth. For this purpose, mix 0.06 g of Borax in 28 ml of water and then gargle with this water is beneficial. 
4. Merc-sol- Taking Sulphur after Merc-sol is very effective to cure stomatitis completely. If Sulphur is failed, Calcarea-carb should be taken. 
5. Sulphuric-acid- If blisters have appeared in the mouth; bleeding starts from the gums and if offensive smell comes out from the mouth with the complaints of pyorrhea, using Sulphuric acid 2 to 30 is very effective. If sour smell comes out from the whole body, this drug can be given.  
6. Arsenic- If blisters or wounds have appeared inside the mouth with burning sensation and weakness and fever, etc., treatment of such patient by Arsenic 3 is very effective. 
7. Natrum-mur- If stomatitis has occurred with appearing blisters on the lips, Natrum-mur 30 should be used for the treatment of it. 
8. Nitric-acid or Hepar-Sulphur- Use these drugs in the condition of wounds appearing due to using additional mercury, using any of the following drugs is very effective- Borax 6x, Sulphur 30, Kreosote 6, Natrum-mur 6, Psorinum 200, Helleborus 6 or Merc-cor 6, etc.