Glossitis

Introduction Glossitis is a chronic, non-specific inflammation of the tongue. It is characterized by redness and smoothness of the tongue surface. Glossitis is an oral manifestation of some systemic diseases, clinically more common in anemia (including pernicious anemia and iron deficiency anemia), riboflavin deficiency, malabsorption syndrome, heart failure patients, and women's menopausal syndrome. In recent years, the widespread use or abuse of antibiotics has caused the dysregulation of the normal intestinal flora, resulting in insufficient production of riboflavin, which is not uncommon.

Cause

It is caused by vitamin deficiency, long-term use of food, drugs, antibiotics, and changes in the oral environment such as smoking.

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It is characterized by hooliganism, difficulty in eating, difficulty in chewing, abnormal swallowing in the mouth, redness and swelling of the tongue mucosa, and sometimes ulceration or tongue paralysis.

Differential diagnosis

It should be differentiated from the following diseases:

Painful red tongue: symptoms of redness and swelling of the tongue caused by systemic discomfort, such as endocrine, metabolic disorders, vitamin B deficiency.

Tongue pain: Tongue pain refers to a syndrome of burning, burning pain, numbness, and pain in different parts of the tongue, tongue, tongue, tongue or whole tongue.

Mouth sore: oral disease with sore or ulcerated mouth and local pain. Some patients often have recurrent episodes, and even the ulcer does not heal for a long time. More by the heart and spleen heat, exogenous heat evil, or spleen and stomach damp heat, yin deficiency and impotence. In ancient literature, it was also called the mouth broken, mouth sputum, mouth ulcers, which occurred in the tongue. It is equivalent to oral ulcers in Western medicine. Sore is a fire, but there is a difference between real fire and virtual fire, such as due to the lack of tobacco and alcohol, or more fat and sweet taste, leaving stagnation of heat, or the feeling of wind heat, damp heat, into the fire, or Emotional stagnation, long time and fire, mostly real fire; physical yin deficiency, fever, yin, or lack of sleep, long-term fatigue and debilitation.

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