How You'll Know: The sore throat comes with other symptoms you’d expect from those viruses.

A mouth ulcer is a painful sore that can form anywhere inside your mouth. It usually looks red, yellow or white, and you may have one or several at the same time. Know symptoms, treatment, prevention ...

Canker sores are painful at first but heal quickly on their own. Oral cancer lesions may not cause pain initially and don't ...

As mouth ulcers heal, their whitish color will fade, and any surrounding redness will start to go away. You’ll also feel less pain and burning. This could happen over 1–4 weeks. Mouth ulcers are sores ...

Infections, injuries, jaw problems, and cancer can all cause mouth pain. The location and type of pain, plus any other symptoms that occur with it, can help with identifying the cause. The pain may ...

Those tiny white spots inside your mouth might be small in size, but they deliver pain far beyond their dimensions. Canker sores affect nearly everyone at some point, making simple pleasures like ...

When the roof of your mouth hurts, it’s easy to assume you might have scraped or burned it while eating. But it turns out there are other culprits unrelated to a minor oral injury. Whatever the cause, ...

Canker sores are vexing and common. The reason they occur isn’t clear, but your toothpaste could be a factor. An ingredient often used to make toothpaste foamy, sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), has been ...

Tiny flies can transform minor mouth sores into a serious condition known as oral myiasis. This rare occurrence begins when ...

Lip ulcers are cold sores, and canker sores are a type of mouth ulcer. Both can cause pain and discomfort but typically clear up without medical treatment. Lip ulcers are another name for cold sores.

Can Ulcerative Colitis Cause Mouth Sores? Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). UC is a chronic (lasting and persistent) condition that mainly affects the colon, part ...

WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midstate are seeing strep throat, pink eye and upper respiratory illnesses this week. “It’s important for your child to keep up with ...