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Bayberry-like tongue

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Introduction

Introduction Also known as "strawberry tongue", it is a pathological sign of the tongue, which is characterized by tongue congestion and edema, nipple thickening and bulging, prominent on gray-white tongue coating, shaped like bayberry.

Cause

Cause

The cause of the bayberry-like tongue:

More common in patients with scarlet fever, other fever patients are sometimes seen.

Examine

an examination

Related inspection

Blood routine

Examination and diagnosis of Yangmei's tongue:

See the tongue for congestion and edema, the nipple thickening and bulging, prominent on the gray-white tongue coating, shaped like bayberry, can be diagnosed.

Diagnosis

Differential diagnosis

Symptoms of arbutus-like tongue confusion:

Short tongue: The tongue is not stretched and can not be stretched, called the "short tongue." The tongue is short, tight, and cannot stretch. Short tongues are often seen with soft tongues. Whether it is due to the facts, it is a critical syndrome.

Spit the tongue, the name of the disease. Tongue out, the tongue is stretched and relaxed, and not exported. Tongue, finger out the micro-outlet, immediately retract the mouth, or the tongue lip up and down and the mouth angle. More common in children, is a heart and spleen heat.

Strong tongue: The tongue plate is hard and straight, and the movement is not working, so that the language is unclear, called the tough tongue. More common in hot into the heart, or for high heat injury, or for wind and phlegm.

Blue-purple tongue: The tongue of the whole tongue is blue, or hot, or cold. The tongue is purple and deep and dry to the hot pole. The warm and sick patients are sent to the camp for the disease and evil, and the blood is divided; the tongue is yellowish purple or cyanotic and the smoothness is the yin cold syndrome. Although cancer patients tend to have a bruising tongue, people with blue-purple tongues are not all suffering from cancer, such as chronic diseases associated with blood stasis, such as coronary heart disease, pulmonary heart disease, chronic liver disease, diabetes, vasculitis, Lupus erythematosus, women with dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, etc. can also be seen with blue tongue, but the proportion and severity are far less than cancer.

The scrotum tongue: the tongue is larger than normal, the surface has many criss-cross, and the characteristics of the groove with different depths can be diagnosed. Acquired persons should consider the possibility of vitamin B2 deficiency, niacin deficiency, and acral dermatitis psoriasis.

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