The tip of the tongue hurts. Causes of pathology

Language is a litmus test of the state of health of the body. It is not for nothing that any doctor starts the examination of the patient from the oral cavity. The surface of the tongue will always tell the specialist the possible cause of the existing pathology.

Why can this important organ be sick?

No one is concerned about discomfort after an accidental bite of the tongue. Another thing is if the pathological symptom occurs for no apparent reason. Painful sensations in the tongue can appear as a result:

- injuries;

- allergies;

- a viral sore;

- taking medicines;

- inflammatory processes in tissues;

- Anemia;

- excessive smoking;

- problems with the intestines, the brain or the heart.

The tip of the tongue hurts for many reasons. The most common of these are:

1. Biting the tongue with your tongue while eating. It happens because of excessive haste of the person. Trauma is also possible in connection with a defect in bite of the teeth.

2. The use of specific foods. It hurts the tip of the tongue from a lot of spicy and sour food. A negative effect on the mucosa of this organ has the habit of sucking hard candies often. To eliminate the pathology, it is enough just to change the diet.

3. Injuries resulting from newly installed dentures or crowns. It takes a certain period to get used to them. The body must adapt to the presence of a foreign body in it. Usually, one should wait not so long, and the tongue will stop clinging to the protrusions of the installed crown. Sometimes the cause of the injury lies in the error of a specialist who incorrectly installed the prosthesis - in such cases, more careful adjustment of the crowns to the shape of the jaw is required.

4. Inflammatory processes. It hurts the tip of the tongue from various ulcers during stomatitis, which most often develop due to the weakening of immunity. The cause of inflammation can be too hot drink, excessive nerve tension or a bitten tongue.

5. Glossitis. At the initial stage of this infectious inflammatory process, there is a burning sensation on the tip of the tongue. If the treatment is not started at the time, the pain covers the entire tongue, the palate, the gums and the rest of the oral cavity. At this stage, the source of infection can be eliminated only under the supervision of a specialist.

6. Glossalgia. This is a serious pathology, in which the tip of the tongue often hurts. The main symptom of the disease is a burning sensation.

7. Allergic reactions. When their manifestations often hurts the tip of the tongue. These pathologies are very common.

Quite often patients leave complaints that the tip of the tongue grows dumb. This loss of sensitivity, which is called paresthesia, can be caused by a number of reasons. These include taking medicines and defeating the glossopharyngeal nerve, glossalgia and allergic reactions. Numbness, which is felt on the tip of the tongue, is often found in women in the menopause period. This pathology is related to the functional changes that occur in the thyroid gland, as well as the vegetative center and the vasomotor system. Loss of sensitivity of the tip of the tongue affects diabetics and patients with anemia.