Tips and tricks for toothache

Seriously bad toothache here from a holey tooth. Can't get treatment due to preg complications using clove oil and paracetamol
Any other natural tips or tricks?

 

Sorry you're in pain CRG. The only thing I know for toothache is clove oil and you're already using that. The only thing I can suggest is to not let anything very hot or cold get near it. If you go outside, wrap a scarf around you to try to keep your face warm and stop the chilly wind getting to it. The thing that started mine off was hot cups of tea so I drank drinks at room temperature. Hope you can get your tooth sorted soon as toothache is the pits.

 

It's a big hole. No infection. I've stopped smoking for a week now coz of baby so I'm hoping that will help?just ten weeks to go till I can get a filling

 

You poor thing CRG....you can buy DIY temporary fillings from the chemist,i've never tried them but it's certainly worth a go....

 

Have you got any food jamed in the hole

 

I'm not sure that being pregnant would mean you can't have a filling. More likely it just means your dentists needs to know, so he can consider what options are available. I could be wrong, I'm not an expert, but its worth asking them if you haven't already done so.

Apart from that, the only toothache temporary remedy I know is brandy. You don't swallow it, you just sip it in then sort of jiggle it around the painful site until it goes numb, then spit it out. I'm not sure I'd recommend that trick to someone who is pregnant though, because even though you don't have to actually drink the brandy, you still inevitably inhale quite a bit of it as vapour, which means some alcohol will make it into your blood stream.

 

I can't have filling because I have preg sickness and on a lot of med it's the same with getting my tat. They refuse to touch me. I've cleaned the hole with corsodyl and I've got clove oil. I've tried using temp fillings but it's on the gum line and hard to fill. It's gone a bluefish colour now so I think it's dying. I don't think I can do much more apart from keeping it clean. Thanks tho all for taking the time to reply.

 

I have not been to the dentist for a long time, if i get problems i use these

 

It's not funny It's true

 

I just want to throw in a word of caution regarding natural remedies. Natural doesn't automatically mean safe. For example, I know that there are some herbs that, in more than the tiniest doses, are strictly off limits to certain people.

For example, licorice is brilliant for any number of things, but, I'm told, it is off limits (in significant measures) to pregnant ladies because of how it alters your blood chemistry. Rosemary is another. It's not recommended for people with excessively high blood pressure, because it can actually raise BP further.

I know clove oil is often recommended for toothache, but I know nothing about it's effects on the blood chemistry, but these things are always worth checking.

Whenever I find a recommendation for a particular herbal remedy, I tend to google 'contraindications herbname' to see if anything comes up.

None of this is meant as negative, I just think its always wise to check.

 

The toothache will suddenly become bearable if I was faced with those pliers! Lol