{"id":1097,"date":"2019-06-01T07:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T23:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2019-06-01T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T10:17:41","slug":"salivary-duct-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/salivary-duct-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Salivary duct stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The year was 2010.\u00a0 It was February.\u00a0 I felt really stressful at this moment to finalise my PhD thesis.\u00a0 Due to that, I didn’t take care of myself really well.\u00a0 What happened then?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I started to have a bit of swelling on my right cheek.\u00a0 I had that for a week or two.\u00a0 I didn’t think too much about it.\u00a0 Then, on one morning, I started to feel a painful throbbing.\u00a0 When I looked myself in the mirror, my right cheek was swollen.\u00a0 \u00a0I started to feel something hard on the inside of my right cheek using my tongue.\u00a0 \u00a0I didn’t know what the thing is.\u00a0 I brave myself to endure the late winter chill to go to school to edit some of my work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I googled the symptoms and I came across this term “Salivary Duct Stone”.\u00a0 I know what causes it.\u00a0 It was my fault of not drinking enough water.\u00a0 I neglected my health.\u00a0 It was not a time for me to panic.\u00a0 So, I googled more information on how to get rid of the stone naturally.\u00a0 Going to the doctor was the last thing on my mind.\u00a0 \u00a0I tried several ways to flush the stone out naturally.\u00a0 I did it!\u00a0 My salivary duct was a little bit infected because there was yellowish \/reddish puss coming out with the stone.\u00a0 The puss didn’t stop for a while.\u00a0 Once it stopped, there was a hole inside my cheek and my cheek was still swelling and the throbbing still persisted.\u00a0 This was when things became unbearable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I went to the nearby clinic.\u00a0 The doctor gave me a referral letter and asked me to go to Sunderland Hospital which would take me around 1 hour journey from Durham.\u00a0 I called K Ila and she sent me to the hospital.\u00a0 I packed some clothes just in case I have to be warded even though that would be the last thing that I want.\u00a0 Alhamdulillah, it was just a salivary duct stone.\u00a0 \u00a0I showed the doctor the stone and he told me the stone was out and he couldn’t see any stone left.\u00a0 With that, he gave me a prescription to reduce the swelling and I didn’t need to be warded.\u00a0 It took me an hour and half to reach home.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This serves as a lesson for me: I need to drink enough water everyday to keep myself hydrated and avoid of having a stone inside my mouth.\u00a0 Alhamdulillah, I don’t have any recurrent swelling until now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The year was 2010.\u00a0 It was February.\u00a0 I felt really stressful at this moment to finalise my PhD thesis.\u00a0 Due to that, I didn’t take care of myself really well.\u00a0 What happened then?\u00a0\u00a0 I started to have a bit of swelling on my right cheek.\u00a0 I had that for a week or two.\u00a0 I didn’t … Continue reading Salivary duct stone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-random-rambling","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}