Chickenpox in the mouth in children is quite often a disease that often does not greatly alarm parents. This is because, as a rule, babies tolerate this disease well. However, if you do not pay proper attention to the disease, then it is possible to receive complications that will remind yourself of your whole life.
The manifestation of smallpox in the mouth
When examining the oral cavity, first of all, you need to pay attention to the baby’s palate, gums, tongue, region of the hard pharynx, cheeks and lips. These are the main places where chickenpox manifests itself in the mouth. Externally, small pockmarks can be observed that resemble in their shape bubbles filled with liquid. With healing, they decrease. And crusts on damaged places do not appear.
It is important to remember that when the first signs of this disease appear in the baby’s oral cavity, you should immediately seek medical help. Mumps in the mouth interfere with normal conversation and eating. In addition, the appearance of ulcers suggests that such a simple disease, like chickenpox, has become complicated. Smallpox in the mouth most often appears in babies with weak immunity or with vitamin deficiency.
Drug treatment of the disease
Chickenpox in the child's mouth requires urgent medical attention. It is forbidden to start therapy on your own without the permission of a doctor. To help the baby before the doctor comes, you can strengthen his drinking regimen. If he does not drink plain water well, then you can give unsweetened fruit drinks, natural compotes from dried fruits or from rose hips. It is also advisable to serve only semi-liquid dishes to the table. An ideal option would be a soup of puree at room temperature. Such products do not injure the mucous membrane.
There are no special remedies for diseases such as chickenpox in the child’s mouth. Only a doctor can say how to treat smallpox. If there are no pathologies, then, as a rule, the following medications are prescribed: Miramistin, Furacilin, boric acid, sodium sulfacyl. If ulcers formed on the gums, then various gels are used to relieve pain. For example, Kalgel. The Solcoseryl paste is excellent.
Folk remedies for smallpox in the mouth
Before you ask yourself how to treat chickenpox in your mouth and what folk recipes help in treating the disease, it is important to remember that all such methods are suitable in addition to the main therapy. Various decoctions and infusions for rinsing, which are made on the basis of alder, clover, chamomile, calendula, yarrow, sage, are excellently helping.
And how to smear chickenpox in your mouth if rinsing does not help? For these purposes, it is recommended to use various alcohol tinctures. True, you need to work with them very carefully. After all, with careless handling, you can burn a healthy mucous membrane of the baby. It is advisable to dilute them with water and smear sores up to four times a day. Also, relief of itching and pain brings a rinse with the usual brewing of green tea. There you can add a little salt.
The danger of chickenpox on the mucosa
It should be noted immediately that the appearance of sores on the mucous membrane of the child indicates that secondary infection is occurring in the body. Therefore, it is considered a very complex disease of chickenpox in the mouth. How to treat it has been described above, but parents may not even imagine how dangerous this ailment is.
Mumps on the mucous membrane can appear at the moment when the child suffers from chronic tonsillitis, there is caries in his mouth or he has bad adenoids. The disease can go into a complicated form. And then the inflammation will spread higher or go down to the larynx. If you completely abandon the treatment, then the baby may experience difficulty breathing. If smallpoxes are large, they can begin to burst on their own and carry bacteria throughout the body. Of course, this ailment is not fatal, but it can cause a lot of trouble and trouble for the child and parents.
Immunity increase
It would seem impossible to avoid a disease such as smallpox. However, chickenpox in the mouth is a secondary symptom. Therefore, in order not to encounter it, it is recommended to increase and constantly maintain immunity. Vitamin C is excellent in this matter. There is a lot of it in citrus fruits. Honey along with lemon juice is recognized as an excellent cocktail for maintaining immunity. It is enough to give the child one teaspoon in the morning and in the evening. And with prolonged use, the effect will be felt.
Also, instead of regular tea, you can drink various herbal preparations. Of course, urban residents do not have the opportunity to collect herbs and brew them. For this, special fees and herbal teas are sold in pharmacies to maintain immunity. To improve the taste, you can safely add honey. The main thing is that it should not be boiling water. By the way, brewed herbs not only improve immunity. They also disinfect and have a mild anti-inflammatory effect. They can cure a cold that has just begun.
Prevention of chickenpox on the mucous membrane
Doctors strongly recommend that parents do prevention without waiting for the child to have chickenpox in their mouth. Smallpox is a very contagious disease. And the best way to protect yourself from infection is vaccination. It is done only once in childhood (after a year of the baby's life) and protects any person from a severe form of the disease. Refusing vaccination, each parent should understand that sooner or later his child will get chickenpox. And, perhaps, the rash will spread to the mucous membrane, which is extremely difficult to tolerate.
If someone has chickenpox in the family, it is necessary to protect him from contact with young children, especially those who have not yet been vaccinated. If nevertheless this cannot be avoided, it is necessary to carefully treat the sores. The patient should use an individual set of dishes, which must be washed with separate means. If chickenpox is accompanied by temperature, it is important to change bedding and underwear more often. It should be washed separately from other things. If the child is ill with smallpox, then it is necessary to ventilate the room more often.