What 's the Real Question?

As I look around the internet for blogs, articles, and whatnot about

this subject, I keep running into treatments. A plethora of

seemingly crazy things to do to minimize the pain of these ulcers

and keep them from forming.

And God knows there’s no shortage of products out there to choose

from, especially in the pain relief department.

And then there’s the foods. Chocolate, coffee, peanuts,

cereals, almonds, strawberries, cheese, tomatoes (even the skin of the tomatoes) and wheat flour are

just a short list of culprits that should be eliminated from your diet. And people seem perfectly willing to do so to avoid the pain.

But really aren’t these the wrong questions if we really want to get

to an answer? The question shouldn’t be ‘what can I avoid

eating to make them stop’,

it should be, ‘why would these foods cause my mouth to react

this way?’ It’s not a normal reaction, and I don’t know that

we’re doing ourselves any favors to act like it is.

As a dentist once vividly explained to me, “It’s not natural for your

gums to bleed when you floss. Wouldn’t you think it was

weird if your finger bled when you ran floss across it? Your gums

aren’t any different. If your gums are bleeding, it’s because there’s

some underlying problem.”

I think that’s the approach we should be taking with this. It’s not

normal to get an open sore by eating a tomato. Instead of

removing it from our diet, we should be finding out why the

juice in a tomato would do that to certain people.

So while I’ll be experimenting with plenty of treatment options, pain relievers,

supplements, etc., I’m going to try to always keep in mind the

underlying problem and the goal of eliminating that.

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