How to treat oral leukoplakia? Diet is crucial!

Oral leukoplakia is mostly caused by unhealthy eating habits. Patients suffering from this disease can be treated through Western medicine, or they can use traditional Chinese medicine to fundamentally regulate their bodies and achieve a cure. At the same time, you should pay attention to your diet during the illness to facilitate recovery.

1. The first measure is to remove the irritating factors, such as quitting smoking, abstaining from alcohol, eating less hot and spicy food, residual roots, residual crowns, poor restorations, etc. It is strictly forbidden to use harsh drugs such as phenols, silver nitrate, etc. to treat white spots.

2. For those who have corrected harmful habits such as smoking but the damage has not disappeared , drug treatment can be considered and further efforts can be made to identify the causative factors.

3. When taking vitamin A orally, you may experience headache and dizziness when you first take it. You can reduce the dosage as appropriate. Usually, you will get used to it after a few days. Common side effects include dry lips and hair loss. It is contraindicated for patients with coronary heart disease, abnormal liver and kidney function and hyperlipidemia. 0.2% retinoic acid solution is suitable for topical application, but not for lesions accompanied by congestion and erosion. When applying, wipe off the saliva first, dip a small amount of solution with the finest brush and apply it along the white area, being careful not to apply on the lipstick mucosa.

4. You can use cod liver oil to rub the white spots for a long time, 2 to 3 times a day, and a course of treatment is 1 to 2 months, but do not use too much force. You can also take cod liver oil or vitamin A orally. Close follow-up is required during conservative treatment.

5. For those who fail to heal for a long time or do not disappear after treatment , if cracks, ulcers, or hardening of the base and significant surface thickening are found in the white spot area, or if the lesions have been proven to have precancerous changes, surgical resection should be performed as soon as possible.

In the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, if the patient often presents with "deficiency of both qi and yin", prescriptions for tonifying qi and nourishing yin can be used, such as Shengmai Yin plus Ganlu Yin; if there are other deficiency symptoms, Sijunzi Decoction can be used for spleen deficiency; Liuwei Dihuang Pills can be used for kidney deficiency; if the liver heat in the body is too severe, Xiao Chaihu Decoction can be used; if the stomach fire is too strong, Qingwei San can be used; if the lung heat is too severe, Qingfei Decoction can be used.

In terms of acupuncture points and massage, you can massage the Hegu, Quchi, Zusanli, and Taichong points to help enhance the body's immune ability and achieve the effect of reducing lung heat and liver heat.

For tea health care recipe, you can use 2 qian of Panax ginseng, 3 qian of Ophiopogon japonicus, 3 qian of Scutellaria baicalensis, and 1 qian of Licorice, and brew it with 800 ml of water to drink. It can supplement the positive energy, enhance the immune system, and achieve the effects of nourishing yin, reducing fire, clearing liver heat and relieving toxins.