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[quote=Anonymous]The toothpaste ingredient she may be sensitive to is sodium laurel sulfate. I have suffered with canker sores my entire life, and I did find that Tom's or similar toothpaste without sodium laurel sulfate would reduce the frequency (did not stop them completely).

I grew up in a city with large research hospitals and a nurse for a mother so I saw many specialists. It has gotten better as I've gotten older (I'm 51 now). The specialists I saw said it is suspected to be some sort of auto-immune response. It may or may not be worth seeing if anyone is doing research on canker sores at Children's or NIH. I don't think there are new treatments, but, I also haven't made any serious attempts in over 20 years. I wouldn't bother with random dentists, oral surgeons, or pediatricians. They know nothing in my long experience.

The last time I saw an oral surgeon who does research on this, he put me on high doses of steroids—he had some success with steriod treatments knocking out the canker sores and never coming back once you were weaned off the steroids. I had complete relief from the canker sores while I was on steroids, but mine came back as soon as I was weaned off the treatment. This was in my 20s, I doubt they'd do this for a child.

I do not think it is the steriods in the asthma inhaler causing the canker sores. Asthma is way more dangerous than canker sores. I would not want my kid nervous or reluctant to use the inhaler.[/quote]

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