Core Tip: Oral lichen planus is a common chronic disease of the oral mucosa. The patient’s mouth and mucous membranes are often red, swollen and ulcerated, resulting in oral discomfort and inability to eat and chew properly. Prompt treatment is needed to inhibit the progression of lichen planus. When treating oral lichen planus, it is important to improve local uncleanliness, brush teeth frequently, remember to keep the mouth clean, and refrain from eating irritating and spicy foods.
Lichen planus is a chronic inflammatory skin and mucosal disease mediated by cellular immunity. The skin and mucous membranes can occur separately or simultaneously. Oral lichen planus occurs in the oral cavity. It is a chronic, non-infectious disease with recurrent episodes. Oral lichen planus has seriously endangered the oral health of patients. So, how to treat linear oral lichen planus? Let’s learn about it.
1、 Oral drug therapy
For patients with oral lichen planus, they can take corticosteroids such as prednisone for internal treatment, and at the same time, patients should take retinoic acid preparations, aminophenone and ashwagandha. If there is severe oral itching, they need to take small doses of chlorpheniramine tablets and other antihistamines, and if necessary, cotrimoxazole and penicillin antibiotics should be used, but the principle of low dose medication should be followed.
2、 Subcutaneous injection therapy
If local medication is ineffective or if it belongs to isolated or hypertrophic lichen planus, hormonal medication may need to be injected into the lesion. Prednisolone acetate and dexamethasone may be used mainly, and if necessary, procaine hydrochloride injection of the same concentration may be added.
Lichen planus is more common. Patients may experience nail damage, mucous membrane damage, skin damage and oral mucous membrane damage. If you find such a condition, you can visit the hospital so as not to make the situation worse and more difficult to treat again. Patients need to follow the doctor’s instructions and choose the appropriate treatment until they recover.
The cause of lichen planus is not very clear, and the following methods can be effective in preventing it.
1、Remove local irritants, brush your teeth with a soft toothbrush, don’t drink, smoke or eat spicy and irritating food.
2, for patients with less obvious symptoms, should pay attention to physical and mental relaxation, optimistic life, work and rest combination, strengthen physical exercise, regular observation.
3, maintain oral hygiene, vesicular type combined with Candida albicans sense patients should be actively treated to control fungal infection, so that the early healing of vesicles.
4、Follow up the patient’s condition to prevent cancer. For long-term recurrence, local treatment and moderate regulation can be used. Meanwhile, patients should eliminate tension and fear and relax emotionally.
5、Patients should avoid excessive anxiety and sadness, pay attention to the combination of work and rest, relieve psychological tension and reduce the triggering factors of the disease.
The above is about the treatment method of linear oral lichen planus. Patients with linear oral lichen planus need to do a good job of care in ordinary life, maintain oral hygiene, pay attention to the conditioning, maintain a positive and optimistic attitude, appropriate exercise, improve their immunity, quit smoking and alcohol, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, play a good preventive role in the prevention of linear oral lichen planus.
