Home treatment for mucoceles that works every time

Should say I "made applications of alum with a cotton ball".

Hey guys, I posted a while back. I tried the alum treatment and the mucocole got smaller but would alway come back. It was driving me nuts so I had it removed on Friday. It wasnt a big deal at all. I got a shot in my lip, which didnt hurt at all, and that all that I felt. About 10-15 minutes I was all done and on the way home. Yes it was pretty swollen for a few hours and my lip a little discolored, but the swelling went down and the color came back fast (within a couple hrs). Also it didnt stay numb for more than a few hours. It is now the third day since my surgery, the swelling is almost gone. I have 3 stitches, but you can hardly see them. Lets just hope it doesnt come back! If you live in Dallas, the doctor I used was great.

I am looking a doctor for mucocele surgery.Any advice?

Sorry .I didn.t tell the place .It's Dallas . Thanks

The alum appears to be working very well -- hooray! I fooled around with a sterilized needle at first, but for me, it was best going with just the alum / Listerine -- and a little rubbing alcohol. One tip that I don't think I've seen -- be careful to only apply a little bit of alum directly over the mucocele, or you may get what looks like another one. Seems to go away, but it's best to keep the alum to the affected area only.

Had doubts about this treatment but thought I'd give it a go. Had one on my lip (from bitting). Am based in Australia, can't get allum from supermarket as a spice - had to get it from a pharmacy (manufacturer is David Craig Biotech). Cost $15 for 100 grams - not sure if the pharmacy product is more concentrated than the supermarket spice. Had to be ordered in, not all pharmacies had it. Found more effective when the cystals were ground to a really fine powder (used a mortar and pestle). Folded a square of tissue dampened and dipped one side in the powder - placed against mucocele for 10 mins 3-4 times a day for 5 days followed by 5 mins of listerine. Note powder attracts water so keep air tight and only prepare how muuch you need for 3 days. Occasionally scrapped off dead skin with a sterile needle (heated over gas flame). Couldn't beleive it, it worked for me! Thanks Bigfoot!!!!!!

Just to add apart from the original area another 2 areas of dead skin came up - they healed up fine.

I figured I'd come back to let this board know how my alum treatment went. Around the first of February I posted on here about a mucocele I had (that just wouldn't go away/I've had them before and they would clear up in a few days on their own) that I treated with alum, only to have another mucocele appear next to it. Well, I simply treated them (initially popped them) with alum over the course of 10 days, initially 3-4x's a day-about 10 minutes a session (rinsing with Listerine after I was done), decreasing to 2-3x's by day 10. For me, they formed a crater-like area which healed over as it was treated. Well, I didn't want to count my chickens before they were hatched, but it's been a good 3 weeks I want to say and NO MORE MUCOCELES!!!! My lip is back to normal. I found my mucoceles dramatically started to heal after I wouldn't touch them with my tongue. I think initially I would touch them out of habit which was probably irritating them. So, if you're treating mucoceles try not to avoid contact with them if possible, from my experience. But in short, ALUM WORKED FOR ME! Definitely worth giving a shot!

Glad to hear that ur mucocele treatment worked!  Good for you!

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okay i used the alum 3 weeks ago nothing happened other than the mococele increasing in size, and a tiny white patch formed size of a pencil tip. 3 weeks later it has not disappeared i just started to re apply the alum twice a day, now the mucocele is starting to burn any one knows what to do, should i keep applying this alum or stop. -Nathan

I know everyone's mucoceles can be a bit different. Are you able to pop your mucocele at all? When I applied the alum, it definitely burned at first (say first few days), then I either got used to it or it stopped burned. I say pop it if you can (with you fingers not puncturing your mouth with any object), and continue to apply the alum. For me burning (on both of my mucoceles) was the norm.

hello, i found a website that said tartar control toothpaste maybe the cause of mucocele. they recommended a brand called biotene. I was wondering if anybody has tried it and if it works

Hi, I would like to thank all of you for your valuable contributions. Since last 6 weeks I was having mucocele on the my lower lip. I got amoxilyn antibiotic tablets from a doctor for 10 days. But still the mucocele reappeared. So I decide to try out the remedy suggested by some people on this post. I got alum and evening prime rose oil (capsules). I poured EPR oil (1 capsule at a time) on a cotton ball and kept it on mucocele for the whole night. Next day I applied some alum powder on the mucocele for 30 minutes. The I rinsed my mouth with Listerine 3-4 times a day. I repeated this for 8 days. The mucocele which had not ripened fully eventually bursted (no need to pierce it with a pin/needle). The mucocele started subsiding from day 4. Now it has almost gone. I would thank all of you again for your advice and avoiding any oral surgery.

I had a mucocele for 3 months. My fiance and I were restling around one day and he accidentally bopped me in the lip and then a few weeks later I couldn't understand where this "cold sore" came from. Eventually I figured it out. It would burst everytime before I got into see a doctor (I did show my doc a picture of it with my cell phone), but I'm 99% certain it was a mucocele. After finding this site I tried the alum at home treatment for approximately a week. Usually leaving it on for 15-20 minutes 2-3 times a day and then rinsing with mouth wash. After doing it for a week the area seemed irritated so I discontinued. For over a week now I've been mucocele free and it's been healing quite nicely. If it does come back I will be going to have it removed.

Hi guys I'm so glad I found this site. My mucocele has been driving me mad but it is, unusually, on my top lip and visible which is which I'm reluctant to have surgery as I dont want a scar across my top lip. I have taken photos of it and kept draining it thinking it would go but like some others have said it has just grown a thick layer of skin over it and now seems very deep into my lip. I wish I'd sen this site right at the start. My mucocele is about five months old. Will try to get alum tomorrow - not sure where sells it in the UK - and give this a try before surgery as a last resort. Will try and post photos at some stage Laura xxx

Also, for anyone in the UK wanting to buy it I found this site http://naturalspasupplies.co.uk/?page_id=39&main_page=product_info&products_id=215 Laura

i had a persistent mucocele for months. it would break,skin would eventually fall off, but then when healing over it would swell again. I tried the salt rinsing but it did not work for me. I had laser surgery and it was expensive, so make sure you have a good insurance plan with a low deductable for a maxillo facial surgeon. After surgery there is severe swelling and black and blue discoloration. You should plan to work from home for the week, as your lip will be numb, asymettrical, and it will be hard for you to smile or talk. Scar tissue will form insitu, and some asymettry will still be apparent after a week but swelling will be almost unnoticeable, but there will still be some numbness. I recommend removing the mucocele immediately if it does not heal properly after the first time it bursts. If you do not, the other salivary glands in your lip will also become obstructed and the lesion will grow, meaning you will have a larger biopsy taken, and a larger area of noticeable, scarring, asymmetry, and numbness.

I wish I had read that before my mucocele surgery. I had one removed in November 2008. I am still having issues and assume I always will. It was inside my lower lip and kept getting larger. It was over three weeks from the onset before I found an ENT/facial plastic surgeon on my medical plan to do it. My actual lip was not swollen prior to the surgery, but ever since my lip itself is slightly swollen on that side, there is a constant sort of tingly/numb feeling, and the scar tissue still pulls when I smile. Fortunately, you cannot really see anything looking at me. It feels very lumpy inside my mouth to my tongue, but you cannot really see much even inisde now. It just feels awful! I don't know if alum would have done anything for mine, but I had to wait almost a month to have the surgery, so it sure would have been worth a try!

I had a mucocele in my mouth. I read about it on several sites and some of them employed some very good scare tactics, so I decided to leave it alone and let it run its course. Well, weeks passed and the damn thing wouldn't go away on its own. It eventually got so large that it was interfering with the way I spoke. I started poking at it with a pin at night and in the morning it would be much smaller, but it never went away. I had found this site but couldn't really find alum in the store when I happened to remember to look. But after 2 solid months of this thing, I couldn't take it anymore! I finally found alum at Safeway. Not all grocery stores carry it, even though it is a McCormick brand spice. I dedicated a whole weekend to this project. I sterilized a pin, wiped the mucocele with alcohol, pierced it several times, wiped it with alcohol again, and then put alum on it. I stuffed half a cottonball in my mouth to hold the alum on the mucocele for 20-30 minutes. I did this every 2 hours. By the end of the first day the mucocele was really starting to hurt from all the poking so I eliminated that step for most of the next day. I was relieved to see the mucocele getting smaller. I don't have the ability to do this at work but I still did it 3 times per day during the week. I was distressed when the mucocele suddenly came back about 5 days after starting treatment. So, I went at it aggressively again with a pin. It took vigilance but it WORKED. I kept it up for 2 weeks until I started forgetting to do the alum treatment because there was no longer a huge lump in my mouth to remind me! I am SO RELIEVED. I have a friend who has a permanent numb spot on her lip from getting a mucocele surgically removed years ago so I really didn't want to go that direction. THANK YOU for this information!! Thank goodness for the internet, right? --Solo