A new study conducted on women has revealed a significant connection between poor oral health and chronic pain, including migraines and fibromalgia.
Using genomics, studies from the University of Sydney, Australia, studied the rigid microbial nearly 160 women in New Zealand and identified specific germs that were associated with chronic pain.
It is known that lipopolisacharides (toxin) from the cell walls of some bacteria in the mouth affect the immune response and have been studied to promote pro-inflammatory cytokine in fibromyalgia-in which a person feels broad pain and fatigue, the authors note.
The conclusions published in the FRONTIRIRCH magazine suggest a potential connection between the oral microbiat and the nervous system.
The study also emphasizes the importance of good oral health in pain and improvement of overall well -being.
“This is the first study for oral health research, oral microbiotics and pain, which usually experience in women with fibromalgia, and our study shows the exact and significant connection between the poor oral and pain,” said leading researcher Joanna Harnet, associate professor of the Department of Medicine and Health.
The first author, Sharon Erdrich, the candidate of the university candidate, said: “Our conclusions are especially important for fibromalgia, which, despite the general rheumatological state, are often insufficient.”
Fibromalgia is also marked by mood, cognitive and sleep disorders.
For the study, the woman reacted to the World Health Organization questionnaire on oral health. Pain in the body and abdomen, headaches and migraines were measured by surveys, including one, created by international headaches.
Women who have the least oral health, are more likely to suffer from greater pain: 60 percent, most likely, feel moderate and severe pain in the body, and 49 percent are likely to feel migraine headaches, the researchers said.
Poor oral health was a significant predictor of frequent and chronic migraines.
The authors wrote that 58 percent of those who have migraines and 25 percent without migraines had the least oral health, while 21 percent of those who have migraines and 54 percent without migraine had better oral health.
“We express the hypothesis that these (oral) metabolites and/or bacteria cause increased pain and defects in the mechanisms of pain, which contributes to the pathogenesis of idiopathic nocyplastic pain, which is associated with these central disorders of sensitization,” they wrote.
