Revista de bioingeniería y ciencia biomédica

A Clinical Study to Know the Effect of Chlorhexidne Mouth Wash on Radiation Induced Oral Mucositisb

Abstract

Kishore Kumar M

This Research article mainly based on the introduction of oral mucositis.Mucositis is the painful inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract, usually as an adverse effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment for cancer. Mucositis can occur anywhere along the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, but oral mucositis refers to the particular inflammation and ulceration that occurs in the mouth. Oral mucositis is a common and often debilitating complication of cancer treatment. There are different stages involved in the oral mucositis ,oral mucositis is mainly due to the post chemo-treatment in the cancer.There are several drugs used in the cancer treatment which causes a lot of side effects and of that oralmucositis is one and the drug used below to cure oral mucositis is chlorhexidine mouth wash and it plays a vital role in the treatment of oral mucositis.The safety and efficacy of the drug is clearly demonstrated by comparison with the rest of the drugs in the market.