Canker sores

[momof3cuteboys]

Does anyone know of a fast/easy/painless way of getting rid of a canker sore? I have one on the tip of my tongue and it hurts like an SOB, i've tryed warm water n salt, and oralgel canker sore stuff and neither have worked.

[Tan5kids]

I don't know how to get rid of them but I know that acidy foods cause them.. ouch I feel for you.

[one ordinary girl]

I was going to say salt water. If that didn't work I dont' know what to suggest. Hopefully someome else has a trick that will work.

[Horvyboysmom]

There is an oral gel for canker sores and that helps cause it as a numbing agent. But the salt water is supposed to work as well.

[ducky]

Are you sure it is a canker and not a bursted taste bud. Is it a little white dot on your tongue? If it is the taste bud, there is nothing you can do but wait for a few days.

[crunchymama]

Go and buy something called "Kanka" it is a medication as well as a numbing agent and it forms a film over the cancer so you can eat etc. without any pain. I have been using this for years and it is the best!!!

[AuntPetunia]

Put salt directly on it and try to breathe That's what I always do... it hurts. A lot. But, it goes away fast!

[Tan5kids]

Are you sure it is a canker and not a bursted taste bud. Is it a little white dot on your tongue? If it is the taste bud, there is nothing you can do but wait for a few days.

Why does that happen. I get those all the time?

[Wendy]

I get cankers all the time and I put salt firectly on the canker and it's usually better by the next morning.

[ducky]

Why does that happen. I get those all the time?

I am not really sure, but I have heard that it is an infected taste bud, but called a bursted taste bud. Maybe just a nicer way to say it. I have one right now on the tip of my tongue...what a pain.

[Ali]

I use "Fletchers Sore Mouth Medicine" from Shoppers. It hurts a lot to put it on, but it really speeds up the healing.

[taddy28]

vinegar works well, dries it up and stings the pain away.

[eversoclever]

i rub my tongue against a TUMS tablet and it usually makes it go away.

[Wendy]

i rub my tongue against a TUMS tablet and it usually makes it go away.

Thanks I will have to try that one!

[2boysmom]

I actually have one on the top of my tongue at the moment and all iIwant to do is bite it off! I have also had them at the end of my tongue and they do hurt a lot. Then again, so does the one I have right now! I don't eat a lot of salty or sugary foods but perhaps it's stress doing it to me lately. Whenever I get stressed out, I get a lot of cankers in my mouth/on my tongue, etc and break out in pimples (which I also seem to have a lot of right now too!). These things are so annoying eh!