Bleeding gums or a sign of serious illness

In our daily life, many people can cause gum bleeding when brushing or eating, such as eating steamed buns, nibbling apples, spots and blood stains can be seen on food, in fact, healthy gums will not bleed when brushing teeth or eating, most of them are because the plaque (bacteria) on the tooth surface is not removed in time, and the calcium ions in the saliva will calcify the plaque and slowly form tartar, and the gums in the corresponding part will be stimulated by the tartar for a long time, causing the gums to become bright red or dark red, swollen, and the edges become thicker. The gums are no longer close to the tooth surface, in general, the patient has no pain and conscious symptoms, only when brushing or eating mechanical stimulation, so that the gums in the inflammatory state are easy to bleed, but the bleeding stops soon after the stimulation is eliminated, and there is no pain, so they don't care, so they are often ignored, and then the treatment is not timely, so that the gingivitis that is not difficult to treat gradually develops into a serious periodontal disease.

According to the World Health Organization, the prevalence of periodontal disease is about 40%-75%. Bleeding gums are a clinical symptom of early periodontal disease, so paying attention to the treatment of bleeding gums is extremely beneficial to oral health.

In medicine, "bleeding gums" are divided into two categories: passive bleeding and active bleeding:

1. Passive bleeding of the gums: only under mechanical stimulation such as brushing, biting hard objects or sucking, it can cause gingival bleeding, and the heavier ones will have blood stains in the mouth when they get up in the morning, and even the pillow will leave blood stains due to saliva flow, accompanied by severe bad breath.

In pregnant women, due to endocrine changes, the balance of female hormone secretion is out of balance, and the inflammation of the gums will be aggravated, the local redness and swelling will be obvious, and even one or more tumor-like protrusions will be formed, which is called "gingival tumor during pregnancy".Mild irritation can cause bleeding gums.

2. Active bleeding of the gums: It is often related to the general health status of the patient, and the general condition should be taken into account while treating oral diseases.

(1) There are a large number of immature white blood cells in the peripheral blood of leukemia patients, which infiltrate and accumulate in the gum tissue, resulting in full-mouth gingival swelling, and continuous bleeding of the gums can be caused by the decrease in the number of platelets, which is not easy to stop.

（2）cirrhosisIn patients, bleeding gums occur due to hypersplenism and a decrease in platelets and clotting factors.

(3) Patients with hypertension and arteriosclerosis will actively bleed due to the increase in the fragility of blood vessels, and the capillaries are prone to rupture. At this time, only simple intraoral hemostasis methods are not easy to be effective, so they must be combined with internal medicine treatment to be effective.

In short, for gingival bleeding, we should attach great importance to it, take it seriously, whether it is passive or active gingival bleeding, you should go to the hospital in time for examination and treatment, if it is local plaque on the teeth, bleeding caused by tartar stimulation, remove local irritants, and carry out thorough cleaning of teeth, commonly known as "scaling" or periodontal scraping, can receive good results.It is recommended that you pay attention to oral hygiene, use a soft-bristled toothbrush to brush your teeth after meals, and brush your teeth for no less than 3 minutes each time, and use dental floss. In order to reduce the formation of plaque, to achieve the purpose of alleviating and treating gingivitis. For active bleeding of the gums caused by systemic diseases, in addition to local hemostatic treatment and oral hygiene, it is also necessary to go to the internal medicine department to find out the cause of bleeding, diagnose the systemic disease, and then treat the cause of the disease, so as to completely cure the bleeding gums.