Stomatitis is an inflammation of the mucous lining of the mouth. It can affect part of the mouth or the whole mouth. The intensity of symptoms can range from mild to severe. It can affect your cheek, teeth, gums, lips, or tongue. In almost all cases, the lining of the mouth becomes swollen, red, and painful. Painful ulcers can develop in your mouth. Stomatitis recurs in some people.
After 12-36 hours, any red spots will develop into yellowy-red ulcers (lesions) in your mouth, around the roof of your mouth, tongue and inside of your cheeks. These ulcers may be sore and uncomfortable, making it difficult to eat, drink and swallow.
Most often herpes is a relatively harmless disease that is rarely life threatening. The most common form of herpes is oral herpes and usually shows up on the lips or inside of the mouth as “cold sores” or “fever blisters”.
These blisters usually just appear on uncovered skin, such as the face and hands, but can also be found anywhere on the body once they have taken root.
Herpes simplex 1 also known as oral herpes, it's scientific name is simplex virus. Herpes simplex 1 is a bacterial disease. Herpes simplex 1 is passed with children if the parents carry it. This type can also be carried by kissing, drinking from the same cup from a person that carries it, and any other physical contact with someone that carries it. The cause of the disease can be found on/in the mouth. HSV-1 has a few types of functions: cold sores and/or fever blisters around the mouth and on the face. HSV-1 can be spread much faster when an infected person is having an outbreak. The disease can be spread to any age group, especially if you -have a weekend immune system, having multiple sex partners, being a female, having another sexually transmitted infections- this also goes for Herpes simplex 2 (HSV-2).
Bright red or dark red spots in the back area on the roof of the mouth near the throat.
Ulcers that progress to stage two can be assessed as a wound that is shallow and looks like a ruptured blister that is pink or red in color. At stage three, the ulcer resembles a crater with a deep wound that reveals fat and possibly some yellow skin that is dead. Stage four pressure ulcers can reveal muscles and tendons; these ulcers can manifest dead, yellowish-brown crusty tissue.
The herpes virus is one of the most prevalent viral diseases known to man. As much as eighty percent of all people, worldwide, have herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV1), and twenty percent have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV2). This may sound like scary statistics, but most infected people suffer only mild discomfort. The more common form, HSV1, usually causes the occasional blister-like sores on or around the mouth. These blisters are called cold sores or fever blisters and, as most sufferers know, they are annoying and mildly painful but rarely dangerous. If the sores are left alone, they will generally heal up in five to twenty days. The less common version, HSV2, has the same symptoms except that the sores are usually found on or
Shingles like chickenpox may also occur in the mouth if the maxillary or mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve is affected. A rash will appear on the mucous membrane of the upper jaw, usually along the palate, sometimes along the gums of the upper teeth or even along the lower jaw (tongue or the gums of the lower teeth) respectively. It may show up alone or along with the rash along your skin. Like the skin lesions they will typically stay to one side of the mouth and they will distinguish themselves from oral blisters. They will typically show as 1-4mm opaque vesicles which will break down quickly to leave ulcers that will heal in about 10-14 days. Prodromal pain, occurring before the rash, could be confused with that of a toothache
The signs and symptoms of Coxsackievirus is that sores develop in the back of the mouth and throat
A decubitus ulcer, (more commonly known as a bed sore or a pressure sore) is an open wound that forms on the skin that covers bone. Most decubitus ulcers appear on the ankles, back, hips, and butt. This ulcer is common with those people who are wheelchair bound, elderly and remain seated or still for a long period of time or are unable to move parts of their body without assistance. This is condition is treatable and has high recovery rates if diagnosed properly.
Canker sore. This type of stomatitis is characterized by a single pale and ulcer of yellow color with a red external ring or a group of such ulcers in the mouth. In most cases, they appear on the tongue, cheeks or on the inner side of the lips.
Causes-The exact reason behind most canker sores remains to be unknown. Stress or tissue injury is regarded as the reason simple canker sores. Particular foods offering citrus or acidic
Chancroid or Ulcus Molle is a bacterial disease that creates an ulcers on lymph nodes. The symptoms of this infection usually begin with small bumps on the genitals, this occurs within a week or two of the infection. Eventually, the bumps evolve into ulcers, two days after the first bumps appear. The ulcer’s size is about two to one eighth in diameter. They are usually soft, painful, grey or yellow in color, and regularly bleed when they are scraped or hit. It is easy to know if you have this infection because of its outward showing symptoms. For men the common places ulcers show are the foreskin, the groove behind the head of the penis, the shaft, the scrotum, and the head itself. For women, common places are the inner and outer labia, the
A cold sore is a viral infection called Herpes Simplex, and is a small blister which is most commonly found on the lip area however they can also appear on other areas of the face. Cold sores can flare up due to emotional stress, uv light or infection such as colds. Once infected with the virus you are prone to recurrence. Treatments on this area could spread infection. Advise client GP visit if they are not prone to infection.