Wow. Take care of yourself.
A mouthwash thoroughly swished around the mouth & over the tooth of 80 proof vodka will temporarily kill the pain... but it will sting like hell while you do it. You don't have to swallow it. But it can help even more with the pain by swallowing it, as long as it won't conflict with your other meds. Check with your doctor if wine or moderate alcohol is safe with your meds or treatment before swallowing it.
Repeated rises with vodka every time the pain returns will also kill the germs & infection, & eventually deaden the sensitive nerves.
Swallowing MODERATE amounts of wine, beer, or hard liquor may be good for you as long as it doesn't conflict with your meds. Too much will have a reverse effect & may cause serious problems. So don't go crazy with it or it can make you very sick, & may kill you.
Generally no more than 8 ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of hard liquor per day is considered safe to swallow, & may even be beneficial. That's about the same as about 2 bottles of beer a day. It is safe to swish any amount of vodka you want in your mouth for a toothache as you need it as long as you don't swallow it.
Simple aspirin, or Ibuprofen help a little too.
DO NOT use Acetaminophen-based products like Tylenol ever! It works the liver too hard, & can damage it -- especially in older patients. With trace amounts of alcohol or other meds in your blood, Acetaminophen could kill your liver & be fatal!
Doctors & hospitals use Acetaminophen (Tylenol) because it's not anti-clotting so reduces bleeding risks during or after operations. Aspirin & Ibuprofen are anti-clotting agents, so are not good for if you're going through an operation, or just had an operation where bleeding may be a factor. But there are other pain relievers they can use instead of Acetaminophen -- even pot.
Acetaminophen should be taken off the market & banned. It's nasty & very dangerous stuff, & just not a very good pain reliever.
Cloves or clove based toothache medicine also helps. There are many brands. Since I never had dental insurance, I used a medicine called Oral Gel that worked well.
But nothing ever worked better for my toothaches, that regular, thorough mouthwashes with vodka. Used properly & regularly it will kill the infection, & deaden the nerves permanently. Once you see the swelling go down you know you got it beat. If it's a rear tooth that nobody will notice, after you stopped the infection, & deadened the nerves, you can just let the tooth naturally fall out after a few weeks.
That's how we did it 100 years ago, & it worked. But they may have used other hard liquor like whiskey or rum. Vodka is best because there's not anything in it that will leave a residue for infection to feed on. It's basically just water & alcohol.
Many cheap vodkas are fine, but beware some cheap vodka is poorly distilled & refined. Alcohol distillation creates both very toxic & non-toxic alcohol. Many cheap vodkas have too much toxic alcohol in them. If you get a headache an hour or 2 after consuming it, or the next day, it's a good bet it wasn't properly distilled & refined.
The cheapest well refined vodka I know about is Rikaloff. It's about $13-$16 for a 1.5 liter bottle of the stuff.
It's also a safe non-toxic, fumeless disinfectant, that leaves no residue. That's plus for me with COPD.
I keep a small bottle filled with it as my mouthwash in the bathroom, & in a small spray bottle as disinfectant. With COPD & my condition, lung or mouth infections, or pretty much any infection can be extremely serious or may be fatal to me.
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