How I learned to treat my tongue Ulcer

See, when I said I can’t live without the Internet, I’m dead serious about it! Cos if it weren’t because of the unlimited knowledge I can learn from it, I wouldn’t have known what I learned today.

I’m sure everyone had experienced mouth ulcers at some point in their life, maybe for some even more often than others. Being around Chinese cultures a lot, when you tell them you have an Ulcer in your mouth, they’d tell you that you are ‘热气 [rè qì]‘ or  in other words, your body is experiencing more ‘heat’ than it should, which might have caused those Ulcers.

Although I have had mouth Ulcers before, I think there wasn’t a time that it bothered me THIS much because most of the Ulcer happened on the walls of my mouth. But this time, it happened on my tongue. And worse, its back part where its hard to reach!

So since Monday, I’ve been having trouble eating, talking and even sleeping because of this Ulcer and its already Thursday and its still hanging on there. Nasty Ulcer!

I usually ignore my ulcers when it happens and just drank gallons of water and shrug it off cos I knew it’ll go away like the next day. But this time, the game is ON~!! After 2 days of tortured appetite (cos I enjoy eating my food so much, the pain just ruined it), I decided I will battle the Ulcer HEAD ON.

Tuesday night, I took a lot of SALT and kept stinging myself on the ulcer spot. For a while, the white bacterial area went off, but it just keeps coming back!! After lots of SALT, it didn’t go away, I slept on it, hoping the Ulcer would be gone when I woke up. I was so wrong.

I loss the first battle with my Ulcer. I was so defeated. My boss even gave us Morning Shifters breakfast treat and I didn’t even had the appetite to eat it until I got home at the end of the day. Of course, I didn’t give up, I went online and researched on what I could do to be strong, and SURVIVE this.

It so happens, there were a lot of advices (as well as gross photo demonstrations) about how we could treat them Ulcers, a.k.a Canker Sores. See, I didn’t even know that word existed! New word of the day!

All I needed were:-

Baking soda
Vitamin B supplement
Hydrogen peroxide
Milk of magnesia
Water

I only managed to check Baking Soda and Vitamin B as well as Water off that list, no idea where to get Hydrogen Peroxide and Milk of Magnesia, but I have another weapon added on which is Listerine so I think I’m good for now. But I did learn something else too, I apparently should avoid any food that is high in Citrus. Well , there goes my daily Orange Juice fix.

*It DID sat America’s #1 trusted Brand. So of course that would be my natural choice!

I hope this will work, and quickly heal that freakin Canker so I can go back to enjoying my LOVE/HATE relationship with my second most enjoyable hobby…

EATING!