For Canker Sore Sufferers Out There

Orabase WITHOUT benzocaine (the one with benzocaine is shit) was the best thing ever, and I hear they can still provide it at hospitals, or other countries, but we cannot find it at drugstores anymore. My homemade solution:

-Buy powdered Xanthan Gum (purchased mine on Amazon)
-Buy unflavored Knox Gelatin and powdered Pectin from market
-Mix 2TB of gelatin, 2TB of pectin, and 1TB of xanthan gum in a ziploc bag. Shake it well.
- When needed, take 1 teaspoon of the powder, mix it with very hot water, teaspoon by teaspoon, mixing it well until you have something a little more liquidy than a paste consistency. Put it in between parchment paper, flatten it and put in the fridge for some time. When you're ready to sleep take a piece of it , which must have hardened to a gel-like thing, and place it on top of your canker sore. Try not to swallow it, and go to sleep.

- If your sore is in one of those open places (like the top of your mouth), make the paste and just put a glob of it there, no fridge time, and hope for the best.

+ There is a liquid Lysine from Quantum that you can also put a drop and see if it cuts the time for the sore to heal.

++ The best thing is to avoid your trigger(s). I found one of mine after years and years of suffering: Vitamin B. It took this long because it's not immediate; I would take a supplement or something with vitamin B and only 5 to 7 days later have the sore. But it's definitely one of my triggers, together with something very acidic like pineapple.

Hope it helps, because the pain! F*^# the pain!