Very often people bite their lip while talking or eating. There are no statistics on this subject, but many observations suggest factors that lead to biting.
Factors
1) When talking or eating, a person becomes extremely thoughtful and completely immersed in his thoughts.
2) The dentures may be incorrectly made or the person may have an overbite.
3) Simultaneously chewing food while talking.
4) Chewing food too fast.
5) Misaligned teeth.
From this the following conclusion suggests itself: you should not combine several things, especially when chewing. This may result in injury. According to some observations, women bite their lips most often. It is not known what it is connected with. Even Internet forums are full of topics about how the girl bit her lip.
What should I do after biting?
Of course, after a person has bitten his lip or cheek, a wound remains at the site of the bite. It is necessary to make sure that the pain fromthe damage was as minimal as possible. And if there is heavy bleeding, then you need to either reduce it or stop it completely.
If you bit your lip, an ulcer formed, how to treat it? First, you need to eliminate the pain syndrome. In order to relieve soreness after biting your lip, you can apply a cotton swab moistened with lidocaine to the wound. You can also use drops containing an anesthetic and used in eye practice. Without these remedies, the pain can be very intense.
If a person bites his lip hard and is bleeding, then at home there is the only way to help stop it. Rinse the bite with cold water 2 or 3 times. It helps to narrow the blood vessels, which will lead to a decrease in the intensity of bleeding. In the event that rinsing with water is inconvenient, then after biting your lip, you can attach a piece of ice.
Healing of mucosal defect after biting
After the pain subsided and the bleeding stopped, the wound should be helped to heal. After all, it’s ugly if a girl bites her lip, an ulcer forms. How to treat?
1) Immediately after being bitten, brush your teeth and rinse your mouth.
2) Rinsing and cleaning procedures should be carried out regularly. Preferably after every meal.
3) You can rinse your mouth with decoctions of St. John's wort or chamomile.
4) It is possible to use antiseptics, which currently exist in a variety of forms:solutions, sprays and lozenges. Each person will be able to choose the best antiseptic for himself if he bit his lip. What is the best treatment? Chlorhexidine solution helps a lot. It is recommended to use an antiseptic after eating and rinsing your mouth.
5) It is necessary to exclude liquid hot food and hot drinks during the healing period. If you constantly act on the sore with hot, healing will be delayed for a long time.
6) It is also advisable to refuse cold food, since the effect will be the same as from hot food. Until the wound heals, no ice cream.
7) The diet should be enriched with those vitamins that accelerate healing. These include vitamins B and C. You can buy ascorbic acid in a pharmacy. But a trip to the pharmacy can be postponed if there are fresh fruits, meat and greens.
When you need a doctor's help
You need to see a doctor if:
- after biting her lip, the defect does not heal for more than four days;
- 3 days later it became noticeable that the wound was getting bigger;
- after biting the mucosa, a large hematoma formed;
- damages happen very often, it is possible that a person has a malocclusion; in this case, it is necessary to visit an orthodontist who will help correct the defect;
- the integrity of tissues is severely compromised (it happens that they bite very hard).
If there is one of the above factors, then you should immediately contact an ENT or dentist.
What not to do after biting
1) No need to smear the wound with iodineor brilliant green, and also water with a solution of peroxide.
2) Herbal decoctions should not be drunk hot.
3) In no case should you press on the wound.
4) Don't touch the bite with unwashed hands.
5) There is no need to sprinkle antibiotics on the bite. They should not be taken at all without a doctor's prescription.
Stomatitis
Very often stomatitis appears in the mouth after biting her lip. How to treat him? These unpleasant sores appear due to microbes entering the wound. The microflora of the oral cavity is disturbed, and stomatitis occurs. Over time, its symptoms may worsen and the discomfort may increase. If it was not possible to avoid this disease, then it is necessary to rinse the oral cavity with various antiseptic agents. If the disease has become very severe, when it is impossible to eat, you need to see a doctor who can prescribe antibiotics in the form of injections or tablets. To eliminate the pain syndrome, you need to use drugs related to analgesics.
In order to avoid stomatitis, you need to be careful and ensure that germs do not enter the oral cavity.
