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How to Prevent Oral Plates
Sometimes, due to a wound by an accidental bite or scratch, are formed in the skin of the face plates around annoying and painful. They are due to poor oral hygiene. To avoid this, keep in mind the following tips.
• Do not eat the nails, because in this part of the body are too many bugs and infections.
• Do not share food items (spoons, forks, knives, etc.). Salivation because each person is different and the exchange can affect an injury occurs in the mouth.
• Change your toothbrush every three months.
• Do not take things in their mouths, so avoid unexpected injury or wound infections present.
• When you brush, do not forget to gently clean the gums and tongue. Keep in mind that to achieve good hygiene, the approximate oral brushing is three minutes.
• When you finish using it, wash well the toothbrush so there are no food residue from the bristles.
Mucosal Structures in the Mouth
Diagnosis is made by measuring specific antibodies in the blood, a biopsy of the intestine and symptoms. Duodenal biopsy is often, but will be more sensitive to the jejunum.
Are three different models that vary according to clinical presentation:
Villous epithelial infiltration with lymphocytes, with normal villi and crypts. This model was found in 40% of individuals with Dermatitis Herpetiformis and a small portion of patients with bowel involvement and affected relatives are asymptomatic. Elongation of the crypts and flattening and inflammatory cells in the lamina propria. This model is classically in individuals with celiac disease with intestinal symptoms in asymptomatic affected relatives, and individuals with dermatitis herpetiformis. In most of these individuals, treatment with a gluten-free diet results in improvement of the villi and crypts architecture that becomes normal or nearly normal.
Complete flattening of the mucosa with absence of villi and crypts very small. It is found in more severely affected patients. It is often refractory to gluten-free diet, and the injury is not reversible. Are patients requiring intravenous nutrition supplements. Property and repeated biopsy to avoid false positives of intestinal infections, with lesions caused by lactose. We must also bear in mind that patients in remission or with intermittent symptoms may have normal biopsy and the results of the analysis but remain very sensitive to any prolamin.