Toothpaste

[purplepigs]

Is everyone allergic to SLS which is found in toothpaste, shampoo and deodorant etc ?????

Not sure if it's SLS related but I can only use gel type toothpaste - so the blue or green coloured toothpaste and not anything white or with white stripes.

If I do I get a terribly sore mouth and huge ulcers down the sides of my tongue that get so bad I can't speak or eat.

It took me about 15 years to work out that it was linked to the type of toothpaste I was using.

Oranurse toothpaste is SLS free. I'm not allergic to it

Apparently some sensodyne ones are SLS free too

I buy Elgydium toothpaste online or Aloe Dent from the health food shop. I ran out last week and used dh's Colgate Total for 1 day and immediately got a massive sore patches on the sides of my tongue.

Thank you for all your replies.
It is so weird because I have used normal shop toothpaste for years and years and suddenly over the last few months I would use Sensodyne repair and protect and my mouth would burn like I had burnt it with got food or a cup of tea - my gums was peeling really bad. It has taken me ages to work out that it was my toothpaste and that it was the ingredient called SLS.
But I have no started using SLS free toothpaste from HOLLAND AND BARRETT and the difference is incredible - I can't quite believe but so far I have had no burning sensations - I even started to imagine all kinds of problems with my teeth and it wasn't my teeth it was my gums.

Has anyone ever read up on burning mouth syndrome?

Does your toothpaste still contain fluoride?

It contains it yes. Let me check the ingredients do you also think it could be that?

Any help is much appreciated.
Can stand the burning anymore.
It is such a relief at the moment.

No, I just wouldn't use a toothpaste that didn't have the correct level of fluoride in it (1450ppm)

It has it in at 1000pcm per 1gram - which is probably okay if I have a whole tooth brush lengths full - what do you think?

Hi OP, I have burning mouth syndrome (atypical facial pain). Mine is caused by the nerves in my face not working properly, and all misfiring which causes chronic pain. I have no actual issues with my gums or my teeth, but I feel a mixture of toothache, or a burning pain in my gums, or both.

I was diagnosed by a maxillo-facial consultant following a load of tests, including an MRI scan, and my dentist referred me to him based on my having eleventy-billion appointments for toothache, where she could find no pathological reason for the pain. It started up when I was clenching and grinding my teeth due to stress, which led to me needing some dental work - apparently stress and recent dental procedures are common triggers, also being through the menopause. (I am not menopausal, so that one doesn't apply to me.)

Medication offered to me is a nerve blocking type drug - I know I am spelling this wrong, amitryptiline - but I am not keen to take it because of side effects.

Thank you for your post.
I am sorry you have been diagnosed with that. I haven't had a formal diagnosis but just eliminated toothpaste because of my reaction. I have a dentist appointment I Friday for a filling so I don't know whether to mention it to him or is it more of a GP kinda thing? I haven't had a painful mouth since stopping the old toothpaste and at the moment it is such a relief!

I was diagnosed because I had persistent toothache, and pain in my gums, but nothing actually wrong with my teeth or gums. Could you maybe be allergic to some types of toothpaste? I would definitely mention it to the dentist - I didn't see a GP at any point, I was dentist, hospital, full head x-rays, and then MRI. I'm still under the care of the team at Max-Fac, and my dentist has put me on three monthly checkups in case there are actually any issues with my teeth which I dismiss.