Burning Tongue
Burning tongue is characterized by a burning feeling on tongue of a person. It is also called as “Burning mouth syndrome”. Burning tongue condition give a person sense like they have extremely hot and steaming food on their tongue or in their mouth even when there is nothing inside there mouth that make them feel this.
The trouble, which is known as burning tongue disorder, mainly affects women more than it does men. According to studies, it has been noted that women are at seven times extra risk to this disorder than men. This disorder is also more common in women who are in their menopausal years. This is actually because of frequent hormonal changes in a woman in this time.
Although burnt tongue may make anyone feel painful and uncomfortable and the disease leaves a quite irritating sensation of burning in one’s mouth, it does not change the taste buds of anyone. This simply means that though one may have the irritating or uncomfortable sensation that burning tongue disorder brings; you won’t lose your skill to taste the flavours of food you are eating.
Sometimes burning tongue disorder expands more than a person’s tongue. When a being has burning tongue or burning mouth disorder, they may sense the burning feeling on lips, on the gums, inside the cheeks, and in other parts of the mouth also. Due to these all additional feels, Burning tongue is also have some other names like burning mouth syndrome, scalded mouth syndrome, burning lips syndrome, glossodynia and stomatodynia.
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