I have a fever and many painful ulcers in my mouth and near my throat. It hurts so much, it is causing me difficulty with eating. I am trying to cure it with Chlorhexidine. However, I am unsure about whether I can drink water or swallow my saliva after using Chlorhexidine because it cannot be swallowed. Please help! And if you can, do you know of a way to make it less foul-tasting?
What you have is called viral stomatitis. See your dr. The best thing I found for the ulcers is to keep maalox in the frig, then gargle with it. You can pretty much count on having to wait it out, since its viral.