Be sure to get a prescription from your doctor for the wig because many private health insurance companies cover it. All cells lining your entire digestive system grow and divide very rapidly. Because chemotherapy drugs travel throughout the body killing rapidly dividing cells, cells in your mouth are affected and mouth sores are formed. These sores may be very red spots with small white patches in the middle. Mouth sores can appear anywhere from your lips, gums, or tongue to your throat.
Mouth sores can be so painful that can interfere with eating causing significant weight loss.
Good oral hygiene promotes oral comfort, may prevent infection and can improve nutrition. With the appropriate care healing of mouth sores will take anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks. Feeling burning pain inside of mouth when drinking or eating. Redness, shininess, swelling, or small ulcer are noted anywhere in the mouth. White or yellow patches are noted anywhere in the lips gums or tongue.