link between pericarditis and dental hygiene?
hello, i'm searching for some advice/experiences.
my bf started having chest pain/low grade fever end of june and after getting checked he was diagnosed with acute pericarditis. after a 5 day hospital stay, he was released and has been on colchicine 2x a day and ibuprofen. he has had good days and bad days, but it just seems like his condition is not going away like we wouldve hoped by now. i am starting to kinda have a theory and this is what i am searching for any feedback about.
he doesnt have the best dental hygiene and he is a smoker. he has needed to go see a periodontist for a while but just hasnt gone because of dentist anxiety and just forgetting about it and such. he was also in a car accident back in may that caused some trauma to the inside of his mouth that he was on a prescription mouthwash for for about a month. straight forward question, is it possible that his lack in dental hygiene and/or the mouth trauma from the accident could be related to contracting this condition and ignoring it could be prolonging it like this? i know this can take a while to get rid of and that it may have not been long enough.
i know that the hospital runs blood tests to find the potential root cause. hes convinced that this is something that stemmed from a virus, but he was not sick before this happened with anything. which is why im going down the route of this maybe being bacterial, even though his blood cultures came back normal i think?? im not sure. but the inflammatory markers in his blood work were high and not really going down as quickly as they were hoping in the hospital. but he still got released anyways because he was not having fevers anymore.
thank you in advance for any feedback. i cant not ask about this theory because i have a strong suspicion that it could be related. and if it could be, i would like to address it so he can get better.
tldr; can bad oral hygiene be a hidden cause of pericarditis and if so how do you address it