Does anyone know???

Question

Does anyone know if having 2 chronic tooth infections would affect your general health all together?? Would it take longer for your body to fight off other infections like sinus, and cold, ect. Would it make you generally ill, and subject to m,ore colds, flus ect?? I am scheduled to have all my wisdom teeth pulled next week, and then they are going to put me on antibiotics to get rid of the chronic infections, so hopefully that will clear all my sypmtoms up!! I am just concerned b/c I have had more colds this year than any other, and when I get a cold or the flu its really runs me down, and it seems like my body is having a harder time fighting off any bugs.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Answer 1

Yes a low grade infection can weaken your immune response. More importantly a low grade infection is a perfect breeding ground for a strong antibiotic resistant infection. Why not just treat the cause and get rid of the worry. (extract the offending tooth, or do a root canal). Allow grade tooth infection will not always have an abscess. see below.

Treatment options:
A chronic infection could or could not be associated with an abscess. If an abscess is low grade and not readily noticeable in your mouth is is called a chronic abscess. When the abscess becomes swollen and painful we then call it an acute abscess. One way to treat an abscess is to drain it, but this does not cure it. Another way, a better way, is to treat the cause like an infected tooth or root fragment or whatever is causing the problem. Another way is to bombard it with antibiotics.

The trickiest low grade infection I ever found was by chance, it formed no abscess, because it was in a canine tooth that drained into the sinus. This poor gal went from doctor to doctor for a couple of years. Trying to treat her stuffy nose(Allegra, claratin, Zyrtec). Nothing worked. Finally she was telling me about her problems. I noticed that one tooth appeared slightly darker. i told her I thought the tooth was dead and did it hurt. No there was no pain. No cavity. No abscess. No response to cold or hot. So I drilled the smallest hole I could to the nerve and sure enough that tooth was dead. The whole root canal was done without anesthesia she did not feel a thing. Now she is off meds. no stuffy nose and feels a lot better.

Answer 2

chronic tooth infections wil eventually lead to abscesses (a collection of pus). if left untreated, an abcess can lead to septacaemia which can in turn kill you. get the infected teeth treated and go on the correct antibiotic to kill the bugs. taking only antibiotics without treating the source of infection (the abscess) is useless. the only way to treat an abscesses is to drain it.

Answer 3

Yes having an abcess in your mouth will affect you. It does all of what you say, your body is fighting an infection in your mouth and then whatever else you have, cold or flu.

Answer 4

having any kind of infection in your body can lower your resistance to other types of bugs. having the teeth removed and taking antibiotics should clear up the problem, though.