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Recurrent aphthous ulceration with zinc deficiency and cellular immune deficiency
1Children's Hospital of Buda, Budapest, Hungary.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|November 1, 1991
Abstract:
Zinc deficiency (serum zinc level 65 micrograms/dl) and cellular immune deficiency (confirmed by lymphoblastic transformation assay) were found in a 15-year-old boy who had had recurrent aphthous ulceration for 6 years. Despite the previous therapy (orally administered steroid, isoprinosine, interferon, lysozyme, and local treatment), the ulcers recurred monthly. After 3 months of zinc therapy (50 mg zinc sulfate orally three times daily) the aphthae disappeared and did not reappear for 1 year. The lymphoblastic transformation activity and serum zinc levels were also normalized with this treatment.