Thursday, July 22, 2010
DISEASES OF TOUNGE
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Tongue is a muscular organ associated with the function of deglutition, taste and speech. Some characteristic changes occur in the tongue in some particular diseases. Tongue Diagnosis is a part of the Chinese Medicine Diagnosis. All doctors examine the tongue and they consider the changes in size, shape, color, moisture, and coating etc.- When there is increase of urea and other nitrogenous waste products in the blood due to kidney failure. Here the tongue becomes brown in color.
- When there is decrease in hemoglobin percentage of the blood. In severe anemia tongue becomes pale.
In typhoid fever tongue becomes white coared like a fur. - Deficiency of this vitamin B2 produces megenta color of the tongue with soreness and fissures of lips.
- Deficiency of niacin vitamin B3 and some other B complex vitamins results in bright scarlet or beefy red tongue.
- Vitamin A deficiency causes furrowed tongue.
- In Geographic tongue irregular red and white patches appear on the tongue.
- In nutrional deficiency there is glossitis leading to papillary hypertrophy followed by atrophy.
- Thiamine and riboflavin deficiency causes hypertrophied filiform and fungiform papillae.
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