There are a variety of anti-inflammatory medications for swollen gums, including cephalosporin antibiotics, macrolide antibiotics, and anti-anaerobic nitroimidazole antibacterial drugs.
Gums are swollen and painful due to the accumulation of oral bacterial infection, the oral cavity is a complex environment where aerobic and anaerobic bacteria coexist, often need to use a combination of drugs.
1. Cephalosporin antibiotics: broad-spectrum antibiotics, commonly used drugs such as cefprozil, cefdinir, cefuroxime, cefmetazole sodium, cefixime and so on. It should be noted that do not take cephalosporin antibiotics after drinking alcohol, it is very easy to have adverse reactions. Allergic people are prohibited.
2. Macrolide antibiotics: also broad-spectrum antibiotics, mainly used in the treatment of aerobic gram-positive cocci and negative cocci, such as roxithromycin, spiramycin, erythromycin and so on. Erythromycin and other macrolides are prohibited for those who are allergic to them.
3. Nitroimidazole antibacterial drugs against anaerobic bacteria: such as metronidazole, tinidazole, ornidazole and so on. Such drugs are more irritating to the stomach and intestines, and are generally recommended to be taken after meals.
Gingival swelling and pain can be seen in periodontal abscess, wisdom tooth pericoronitis, apical periodontitis, etc., the drug only play an auxiliary therapeutic effect, need to target the cause of the symptomatic treatment. Periodontal abscesses need to be scaling, incision and drainage according to the situation; wisdom tooth pericoronitis in addition to oral antibiotics, but also need to be localized rinsing medicine; apical periodontitis need to carry out root canal treatment.
Gums are swollen and painful, it is recommended to go to the regular hospital for examination and treatment, follow the doctor’s instructions to use antibiotics, not self-medication.