Swollen gums in the middle of the night, can not sleep, this is a relatively common clinical situation, the best way, is to go to the emergency department of the hospital to hang up the number of the stomatology department, for the disease to see, and by the stomatology physician for active symptomatic treatment, there will be a better effect of the pain, but many people do not have the conditions, or at night, there is no way to go to the hospital. For this situation, only through the oral medication to relieve symptoms, for oral pain the most commonly used anti-inflammatory drugs are cephalosporin and metronidazole, these two of course can be taken orally, but after taking these two drugs orally, most of the time, the pain can not be relieved immediately, because the anti-inflammatory drug itself takes time to take effect, and for the pain, the best way is to take directly to the analgesic drugs, take a relatively The more basic antipyretic and analgesic drugs can be, such as aspirin, ibuprofen and so on.