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What vitamin should be taken for oral ulcers?
Oral ulcers trouble many people, and some can be said to be long-lasting and recurrent, so attention must be paid to the correct treatment of oral ulcers, including the supplementation of vitamin B2 and other foods with higher content, such as vitamin C, and avoiding spicy and irritating foods in daily diet.
1, When oral ulcers occur, most people’s strategy is to eat more vegetables and fruits (to supplement vitamin C), but this often does not work. Because what is most closely related to oral ulcers is not a lack of vitamin C, but a lack of vitamin B2 (and other B vitamins).
2, The daily diet does not contain a rich source of vitamin B2, so the attempt to find one or two foods with a particularly high vitamin B2 content to supplement it is bound to fail. The successful method is to maintain a balanced diet as much as possible, including fish, meat, eggs, milk, soy products, green vegetables, fresh fruits, and coarse grains. However, for many people, this method is as good as saying nothing.
3, Taking vitamin tablets or capsules directly is a quick and effective method, as Vitamin B2 and other vitamins are easily available at pharmacies. Vitamin B2 deficiency often occurs simultaneously with other vitamin deficiencies, as the main cause of vitamin B2 deficiency is imbalanced diet, and imbalanced diet is likely to lead to a deficiency of multiple vitamins, not just vitamin B2. Therefore, it is best to supplement a variety of vitamins at the same time, including vitamin B2, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, and vitamin C. The approximate dosage is B2 (three times a day, one tablet of 5mg each time), vitamin B1 (three times a day, one tablet of 10mg each time), B6 (three times a day, one tablet of 10mg each time), and vitamin C (three times a day, one tablet of 100mg each time).
4, If oral ulcers recur frequently or do not heal for a long time, it is necessary to consider the possibility of zinc deficiency, which can be healed after zinc supplementation. Zinc deficiency affects wound healing (ulcers being a typical example), a typical case being biting through the mucous membrane of the lips by accident while eating, and the local area not healing but forming an ulcer instead. The method of zinc supplementation is to take zinc gluconate (available in both oral liquid and granule forms), with a daily intake of 10 to 20 milligrams (calculated as elemental zinc).