The oral ulcers are a frequent complication of patients with myasthenia gravis. For patients with myasthenia gravis, oral ulcers will not only affect the daily diet, lead to loss of appetite, may also lead to infection, disease progression, increase the difficulty of treatment, so the patient to actively prevent the occurrence of oral ulcers.
Found in the follow-up after hospital discharge in patients with myasthenia gravis, the majority of patients are often plagued by mouth ulcers, and some patients with oral ulcers were recurrent.
Recurrent oral ulcers is a periodically repeated as the characteristics of the limitations of the oral mucosa ulcer injury, self-healing can occur in any part of the oral mucosa. Single or multiple sizes, ranging from round or oval ulcers in oral mucosa of the lips, cheek, soft palate or gums, etc., surface covered with gray or yellow pseudomembrane, central depression, a clear boundary around the mucous membrane of red and micro swelling, local burning as the main feature.
Effective prevention of myasthenia gravis oral ulcers, myasthenia gravis disease control. Patients with myasthenia gravis through the following measures to minimize the incidence of oral ulcers:
1, attention to oral hygiene, after a meal can be used to gargle with salt water; avoid injury to the oral mucosa, to avoid spicy foods and local irritation.
2, to maintain ease of mind, optimistic, cheerful, learn to adjust the attitude, to avoid the angry and anxious to listen to some light and soothing music.
3, to ensure adequate sleep time, to avoid fatigue.
4, note that the living regularity, and nutritionally balanced, and to develop good bowel habits to prevent constipation.
5, moderate activity (such as walking), strengthening the immune system.
The same time, oral ulcers in patients with myasthenia gravis the body's immune system "alarm". Modern medicine, recurrent oral ulcers has a very close relationship with the immune myasthenia gravis patients, if they are not very good treatment, it will lead to a series of complications of ulcers in the mouth. That is, if the myasthenia gravis patients with recurrent oral ulcers, the patient's body's immune system is issued a "warning", patients with a high degree of attention is necessary, and must adhere to the scientific treatment at the same time to adjust the mood, sleep, diet, etc., to prevent exacerbations and myasthenic crisis occurred.