Can Zinc supplement = canker sores?

[HappilyEvrAfter]

Hi!

This last week I've had a series of canker sores and can't seem to pinpoint what started causing them. I used to get them tons when I was a kid, but this is the first time I've had them is YEARS!

Looking back at my journal, the only that has/was changed around the time these started was the addition of a magnesium/zin supplement.

I really don't want to stop taking the zinc cause it seems to be making my face look wonderful, but could that really cause it?

No undue stress, eating, or sleep changes.

I thought zinc was supposed to help these silly things!

[tanyalynn]

Willing to try some homeopathic natrum muriaticum? I think my DD's canker sores were related to being low in zinc, but supplementing hadn't done anything. I think supplementing, to deal with the underlying problem, plus the nat mur, is what did it. Her episodes of canker sores got a lot less intense, then I noticed they spaced out in time, and now she hasn't had any in more than a year.

She once got canker sores when I started a new supp with her--not zinc, and not anything stressful, just the change itself seemed to do it.

[HappilyEvrAfter]

So, you think just the change/balancing out is throwing my mouth for a loop? That it might just take time to even out and settle down?
I've added other supplements in the past months without any adverse effects.

Is natrum muriaticum something you can get at your local health store? How do you use it?

Thanks!

[tanyalynn]

Natrum muriaticum is an easy-to-find homeopathic remedy, it would be at any place that sells homeopathics. It's the first homeopathic remedy I had success with, and given how unhappy my daughter was with all those canker sores, I was thrilled.

I think I gave it 3-4x/day, I found toward the beginning of an outbreak worked best, but it helped some in the middle too.

I'm not sure why one of our supps caused canker sores (that was just once, she'd had canker sores at other times before and after w/o any noticeable change in anything), but given that for you it's after zinc, and zinc seems to be a common nutrient related to canker sores, well, it seems related but maybe in an odd way.

[HappilyEvrAfter]

Hmmm, that's interesting. I'll check to see if our health store has some!!

Thank you!!!