Reasons for the development of stomatitis
The causes of damage to the oral mucosa may be:
- Infection (viruses, bacteria, fungal microflora)
- Allergy
- Weakening of the immune system
- Unbalanced diet
- Some diseases (ENT diseases, diabetes mellitus, anemia, gastrointestinal diseases)
- Microtraumas, burns and other damage to the oral mucosa
- Failure to comply with personal hygiene rules
- Taking medications
- Hormonal imbalances
- Smoking (“nicotine stomatitis”)
- Genetic predisposition
Symptoms of stomatitis
Despite the multiplicity of causes, the symptoms of stomatitis are usually similar:
- Pain and discomfort in the mouth that worsens while eating or talking
- Redness of areas of the mucous membrane, their swelling
- The appearance of painful red ulcers with a whitish center on the mucous membrane
- Increased salivation
- Bad breath
- Bleeding gums
- During the acute phase, there may be an increase in body temperature and enlargement of regional lymph nodes
Types and symptoms of the disease
Gastroduodenitis causes acute pain.
There are:
- Chronic gastroduodenitis with increased acidity. Children and patients under 30 years of age are at risk.
- Chronic gastroduodenitis with low acidity. Middle-aged and elderly patients are at risk.
- Superficial gastroduodenitis with initial signs of the disease.
- Erosive gastroduodenitis with more serious damage to the mucosa (presence of erosion).
Symptoms: acute pain in the abdominal area (on an empty stomach or within 2 hours after eating), bowel dysfunction (diarrhea, constipation), heartburn, bloating, belching, nausea; fatigue, loss of appetite, dizziness.
The importance of nutrition during stomatitis
Proper nutrition for stomatitis not only helps speed up recovery, but can also prevent relapse of the disease.
In addition, if the oral mucosa is damaged, almost any food and drink causes severe pain.
This can cause fear of eating and even refusal to eat, which is completely unacceptable. Therefore, it is necessary to eat with stomatitis according to certain rules.
The duration of such a gentle diet is determined by the doctor based on the form and severity of the disease.
Prevention of stomatitis
Consists of the following items:
- strengthening the immune system, giving up bad habits, hardening, playing sports, eating with a sufficient amount of macros and vitamins (especially vitamin C)
- regular visits to the dentist
- adequate brushing of teeth at home, as well as removal of dental plaque in the dentist’s office once every 6 months
- identifying the allergen and avoiding contact with it
- undergoing medical examination for timely detection of diseases
- treatment of systemic diseases
- taking antibiotics only as prescribed by a doctor, together with a course of probiotics, to avoid dysbiosis
- vaccination (against measles, chickenpox)
Tantum® Propolis
It is worth paying attention to Tantum Propolis, since propolis has an immunostimulating effect, promotes healing, and vitamin C, which is part of it, is responsible for regeneration, participating in the synthesis of collagen.
Propolis also has antiviral and antifungal effects. Therefore, vitamin therapy Tantum Propolis is an effective means of preventing stomatitis.12 Find out more
How to eat with stomatitis
The task of nutrition for stomatitis is to provide the body with all the necessary nutrients, as well as to protect the mucous membrane from irritation as much as possible.
Frequent split meals (5-6 times a day) are recommended. Food must be crushed as much as possible, preferably to a puree state. The temperature of the dishes is 35-40 degrees.
After eating, the mouth must be rinsed with an antiseptic solution prescribed by a doctor or simply with boiled water.
For stomatitis, it is important to drink enough liquid at a comfortable temperature (close to body temperature).
Any degree of dehydration of the body should not be allowed, as this makes the mucous membranes even more vulnerable to inflammation.
Feeding a child with stomatitis
It is more difficult to feed a sick baby than an adult. The discomfort caused by mouth ulcers causes the child to be capricious and refuse to eat. Therefore, it is advisable to discuss with the doctor in advance products that do not cause pain to the little patient. As noted earlier, you need to feed soft food to avoid irritation of the delicate mucous membrane.
What to feed your baby
Nutrition during exacerbation
Only pureed or liquid foods are allowed. Vegetable purees and porridges have a semi-liquid and soft consistency, children like them. If we are talking about an infant, then there is no problem with nutrition at all, the only thing you need to remember is that the baby cannot be weaned from breastfeeding during the treatment period. It is also important that your baby always drinks water after meals (including after breastfeeding). You can give chamomile decoction, which has a disinfecting effect.
It is not yet possible to introduce new dishes for stomatitis, and allergenic foods must be excluded. Give your child white vegetables (for example, zucchini or potatoes) and liquid cereals. Even if we are talking about an older child, he can still be fed with vegetable/fruit baby purees, sold in specialized retail outlets. Ready-made meals will provide complete nutrition, since they contain everything a growing body needs.
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Baby purees
Nutrition during recovery
Every day you can give fermented milk products and pureed meat dishes if the child is used to them. Also make sure your child rinses his mouth every time he eats. If he cannot yet do this on his own, treat his mouth with your finger wrapped in a clean gauze cloth, after soaking it in an antiseptic/healing preparation. Finally, if the child is older than seven months, use sea buckthorn and rosehip oil for treatment.
Herpetic stomatitis
Important! The baby should eat four times a day; between meals you should not give him anything except herbal infusions and clean water.
Other important aspects of nutrition
In children with stomatitis, gastric juice is less actively produced, which is why dry food should not be given, and the child himself should drink a lot. If he wants to drink his food, don't interfere with him.
In children with stomatitis, the production of gastric juice reflexively decreases
As for the temperature of the food, it should not be too high/low. Otherwise, the foci of inflammation will be even more irritated. Ideally, all food should be at room temperature. You should also adhere to fractional nutrition - that is, feed often, but in small portions. If the baby doesn’t want to eat, there is no need to force him or swear. A few days later, when the foci of the inflammatory process have healed, the child will begin to eat normally again.
Note! If the pain is so severe that the child cannot even drink, let him try to do it through a straw. He can eat liquid soups and broths using the same method.
The child can drink through a straw
After the child eats and rinses his mouth, apply the ointment prescribed by the doctor. If we are talking about herpetic stomatitis, then this is, as a rule, “Acyclovir”, and if we are talking about any other form, then it is pain-relieving anesthetic gels.
"Acyclovir"
Menu for stomatitis
Chopped products should be made from meat: meatballs, meatballs, soufflé, pate. It is good to boil the cereals, giving preference to slimy porridges (oatmeal, rice).
It is better to use cottage cheese in the form of casseroles, and make puree from vegetables.
If you have stomatitis, you should not eat sour vegetables and fruits:
- Citrus
- Green apples
- Tomatoes
- Currant
- Sorrel
- Spinach
The menu should contain a minimum of sweets, and chocolate, sweets, and sweet carbonated drinks are completely excluded.
Simple carbohydrates (sugars) are an ideal environment for the development of bacteria in the oral cavity, so their consumption can worsen the condition and significantly interfere with treatment.
You cannot use coffee, alcohol, or add spices to food. Everything sour, spicy, salty, pickled and smoked is excluded from the diet.
All this irritates the mucous membrane and provokes the appearance of new ulcerations.
For the same reason, you should not eat hard, rough foods: stale bread, fresh hard vegetables and fruits, crackers, waffles and more.
List of recommended products and dishes
- Cream soups and broths
- Minced lean meat (chicken, turkey, beef, rabbit)
- Liver (as pate or soufflé)
- Fish, incl. 1-2 times a week fatty varieties
- Milk and fermented milk drinks
- Cottage cheese, soft cheese
- Unrefined vegetable oils (linseed, olive, corn)
- Various cereals in the form of liquid viscous porridges
- Non-acidic stewed or boiled vegetables, purees from them (cabbage, broccoli, pumpkin, potatoes, zucchini, carrots)
- Non-acidic soft fruits and berries (banana, baked apple, watermelon, melon)
- Compotes, fruit drinks, natural juices from non-acidic vegetables and fruits, jelly
Nutrition rules
Many patients complain to doctors that they cannot eat with stomatitis. Such a refusal to eat due to painful sensations is fraught with consequences for the entire body. No matter what type of disease you have, be it viral, bacterial, allergic or aphthous stomatitis, nutrition is key to a speedy recovery. But what can you do to prevent a simple lunch from causing pain? Here are a few simple recommendations that, if followed, will help you eat normally without experiencing discomfort:
- All products must be ground to a puree before use. Grate vegetables and fruits on a fine grater or boil and rub through a strainer;
- it is easier to consume meat, fish and poultry in the form of thermally processed minced meat or soufflé;
- give preference to cream soup or puree soup instead of the usual broth with pieces of meat and vegetables;
- The patient's diet should be rich in vitamins B and C, as they help strengthen the immune system. And vitamins A and E help speed up the healing of cracks, wounds and erosions;
- food should be lukewarm, since both hot and cold food cause additional irritation of the mucous membrane;
- Immediately after a meal, be sure to thoroughly rinse your mouth with clean warm water to remove any remaining food.
Diso Nutrimun for stomatitis
Nutrimun protein mixture for stomatitis will be an excellent additional source of complete, easily digestible protein.
Nutrimun is easily mixed into dishes of any consistency, enriching them with protein of the highest biological value.
With Nutrimun, the body will receive the right amount of protein even in small amounts of food or drinks.
This is especially true for stomatitis, when frequent and split meals are indicated, and appetite is reduced due to pain in the mouth.
What is Nutrimun
SBKS Diso Nutrimun are concentrated milk proteins, easy to digest and complete in amino acid composition.
The mixture has virtually no taste or smell, so your favorite dishes will not change their usual characteristics.
With the addition of Nutrimun, the dish is enriched with healthy, easily digestible protein, necessary for the body to function and successfully fight diseases.
How does he help?
Diso Nutrimun is 5 grams of protein per scoop, it was developed by scientists and recommended by doctors for constant use.
You can add it to any dish: soups, broths, purees, soufflés, porridges, etc. You can stir Nutrimun in drinks: tea, compote, jelly.
Nutrimun is a specialized food product that increases and improves the protein part of the diet.
It contains all the amino acids necessary for the body in the correct ratio to each other for better absorption and greater benefits.
The protein of the Diso Nutrimun mixture is not only complete and balanced in amino acid composition, it is easily broken down in the digestive tract and is easily absorbed by the body.
Some important nuances
When the oral mucosa is inflamed, it reacts extremely sharply to external irritants, which means that parents should select products that have a close to neutral taste. During the first few days, when the pain is especially severe, the child prefers drinking more. It’s not worth forcing him to eat regular food - it will only upset him, who is already constantly crying and capricious. Give preference to liquid foods and foods that your baby will swallow without chewing.
What does stomatitis look like in a child?
On a note! Various broths would be ideal in this situation. Boil, for example, chicken by adding a minimal amount of salt to the water. But don't use seasonings! You can also prepare a thin soup or broth by adding rice/oatmeal. Another good option is puree soup. Grind boiled beef/chicken/pork meat and also add to the soup.
Creamy cheese soup with cauliflower
As for drinks, the following are suitable for a child with stomatitis:
- weak tea;
- sweet berry and fruit compote;
- jelly;
- compote made from dried fruits.
Dried fruits compote
Tea, by the way, will also have a slight tanning effect, and this is known to be useful for ulcerative lesions. But remember that for a young patient, milk is food, not a drink, and therefore it can become a complete replacement for one of the meals.
Also, the diet of a child suffering from stomatitis can be enriched with viscous/liquid milk porridges. Give preference to these cereals:
- from rice;
- from oats;
- from semolina.
Semolina porridge without lumps
You can give your child boiled fish and meat as minced meat. For steam dishes, light stewing is allowed. Stew and various boiled vegetables are also ideal.
On a note! As for fermented milk products, cream, yogurt (necessarily unsweetened) and cottage cheese will be useful for the baby. They contain a lot of protein, which is so necessary for a growing body.
