• Feel bad?

  Check your symptoms

• Have got disorders?

  Find out more

Symptoms of disease - pain in the tongue

He is a muscular organ, covered with mucous membrane with lymphoid entities and glands. Tongue is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. It performs a variety of functions: involved in the advancement of food, sucking, is the organ of speech, touch, determine the temperature and taste. The tongue consists of a root, the body and death. When the mouth is closed it occupies almost the entire oral cavity.

The upper surface of the tongue is called back. Along it is located furrow, under which there is a thin fibrous wall in the form of plates of a dense silver fabric that divides the body into two equal halves.

The mucous membrane of the lower surface of the tongue considerably softer and thinner than the upper, and is rich in surface located thin blood vessels-capillaries. This allows quick absorption placed under the tongue of certain medicines.

On the Central line from the root of the tongue to the side of his chin stretched thin fold of mucous membrane-called bridle the tongue. From each side of the frenulum is available on a small dais, called sublingual caruncle. Outwards and back of each sublingual caruncle there are folds. On caruncle and these folds are open output channels of the salivary glands, details of which will be discussed below.
Unique anatomic formations of the tongue are papillae, covering the front part of the seat-back by two-thirds. They not only perform a variety of receptor function, but also actively react to various local and General diseases, which will be announced in the relevant sections of the brochure.
In humans, there are six species of papillae tongue, the most important of them in the functional respect, are: filamentary, mushroom, leaf and gutters prominent.

Mushroom papillae less numerous, are among the filamentary, mainly at the tip and along the edges of the tongue. They are pink color, thanks to which are well visible on a more light background of other papillae.

Leaf papillae placed on the edges of the rear Department of body tongue and consist of five - eight vertical folds.

Gutters prominent, or, as they are called, surrounded by a roller, papillae the largest in the amount of seven and twelve are located two lines converging toward the middle furrow almost at a right angle, open forward, closing the rear papillary zone of the tongue. In papilla tongue is a large number of surface located nerve endings. The most rich in their gutters prominent and mushroom papilla.

Back from papillary area on the back of the tongue are the lymph follicles, forming lingual tonsil. In the tongue are closely intertwined bundles of going in different directions of the four skeletal, beginning on the bones of the skull, and the four muscles of their own, which is exceptional mobility of the body.

Causes of pain in the tongue:

1. Mini-injuries are the most common causes of pain in the tongue.

2. tongue can become sick and in the absence of any injuries. The lymph nodes in the sublingual region may increase as a result of infection or even certain types of cancer.

3. Pain in the tongue may arise due to diseases of the salivary gland.

4. Pain in the tongue can also be a symptom of various types of allergic reactions, of iron deficiency in the body or the manifestation of side effects while taking certain medications.

5. Often the cause of pain in the tongue is a virus ulcer - a painful damage to the tissue, which appears in the tongue (or somewhere else in the oral cavity) without any apparent cause. Some doctors think that these viral lesion (painful canker sores) are the result of emotional stress, fatigue or reduced resistance of the organism.

6. Glossalgia (from Greek glossa - tongue and algos - pain), pain in the tongue. Occurs primarily in women over the age of 25-30 years. The reasons of occurrence and the mechanism of development of a pain in the tongue is not finally clarified. Glossalgia often occurs in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, disorders of the functions of the endocrine system, neurogenic disorders; often the emergence of glossalgia precedes the trauma. Manifests glossalgia burning sensation, tingling, feeling rawness in the tongue, fatigue tongue after the conversation, difficulty in his movements, at least - a pain. Sometimes the pain spreads to other areas of the oral cavity (mouth, gums, cheeks), less often - for its limits. During the meal, the pain can disappear.

7. Glossitis (glossitis; Greek, glossa tongue-itis) - shallow or deep inflammation of the tissues of the tongue. Glossitis may be independent disease, but more often he is a symptom of any common disease of the organism. With a deep glossitis inflammatory process is localized in the tongue and is clinically manifested in the form of an abscess or cellulitis. Phlegmonous glossitis, extending to the bottom of the oral cavity, causing acute inflammatory phenomenon in the chin area and neck. Treatment is surgery. Surface glossitis is a catarrh of the mucous membrane of the tongue and belongs to the local manifestations of inflammation of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity. As an independent disease catarrhal glossitis is extremely rare.
The reasons of its occurrence can be carious teeth, shortness of teething, deposits of Tartar, injuries of the mucous membrane of the tongue of the sharp edge of a broken tooth or denture in conjunction with the microbial factor, as well as Smoking, alcohol abuse, lack of care for the oral cavity and teeth, chronic intoxication with salts of heavy metals, etc.

- Catarrhal glossitis may be one of the symptoms of gastro-intestinal diseases, infectious diseases - measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc.; in these cases, it is a valuable diagnostic sign.
Catarrhal glossitis characterized by the appearance of dense RAID on the tongue, may be swelling of the tongue, its seal, restriction of mobility; the rejection of epithelium are formed plots of bright-red color. Patients complain of a burning sensation in the tongue, mild pain, loss of taste sensations, excessive salivation (hypersalivation).

- Often a sign of ulcero-necrotic stomatitis, developing under the influence of mixed infection (yeast-like fungi, protozoa, fusospirochetal infection, etc.), is ulcerative glossitis. In the tongue of such patients is formed of dirty-grey patina, when removing the to-cerned visible painful and bleeding erosions and ulcers. Note hypersalivation, unpleasant smell from the mouth.

In the concept of "glossitis" traditionally includes the following form of the disease tongue, far from always being inflammatory: desquamative glossitis, rugose glossitis (pleated tongue), diamond-shaped middle glossitis (diamond-shaped tongue), hairy black tongue (villiferous tongue), raspberry glossitis, intersticialny glossitis.

Other possible causes of pain in the tongue:

1. Ringworm.
2. Bad sitting dentures.
3. Injury tongue. In epileptic patients may bite my tongue, which leads to pain. Damage to the tongue can also occur in the event of accident, during sports.
4. Anemia due to iron deficiency or vitamin B12 may give you constant pain in the tongue.
5. Excessive Smoking irritates the tongue and makes it painful.


If you do not understand what causes pain in your tongue, and discomfort continues, let your health care or dental doctor look at it. Sometimes small tumors that are invisible to you, develop on the lower surface of the tongue.

If neither you nor the doctor can't find anything in the tongue, to explain the pain, it's probably neuralgia: the excitement of the nerves that serve the oral cavity. You feel pain in tongue, but in fact it may come from the neighboring teeth and gums.

If the pain in the tongue of what happens when a fast walking and stops when you rest, you reason in your heart. I have had a few patients with chest toad, whose symptoms were seen not in the chest, but in the teeth, jaws, and sometimes in the tongue.

Constant pain in the tongue should be the subject of attention of your doctor. It can be connected only to a small infection or irritation. But this easily accessible for inspection authority may indeed reflect disorders in such distant parts of the body like the intestine, the head brain and heart, and even the type of diet that you follow, and your other personal habits. So the old-fashioned Doctor may be eventually right.

Which diseases there is pain in the tongue

He is a muscular organ, covered with mucous membrane with lymphoid entities and glands. tongue is richly supplied with nerves and blood vessels. It performs a variety of functions: involved in the advancement of food, sucking, is the organ of speech, touch, determine the temperature and taste. The tongue consists of a root, the body and death. When the mouth is closed it occupies almost the entire oral cavity.

The upper surface of the tongue is called back. Along it is located furrow, under which there is a thin fibrous wall in the form of plates of a dense silver fabric that divides the body into two equal halves.

The mucous membrane of the lower surface of the tongue considerably softer and thinner than the upper, and is rich in surface located thin blood vessels-capillaries. This allows quick absorption placed under the tongue of certain medicines.

On the Central line from the root of the tongue to the side of his chin stretched thin fold of mucous membrane-called bridle the tongue. From each side of the frenulum is available on a small dais, called sublingual caruncle. Outwards and back of each sublingual meat there are folds. On caruncle and these folds are open output channels of the salivary glands, details of which will be discussed below.
Unique anatomic formations of the tongue are papillae, covering the front part of the seat-back by two-thirds. They not only perform a variety of receptor function, but also actively react to various local and General diseases, which will be announced in the relevant sections of the brochure.
In humans, there are six species of papillae tongue, the most important of them in the functional respect, are: filamentary, mushroom, leaf and gutters prominent.

Mushroom papillae less numerous, are among the filamentary, mainly at the tip and along the edges of the tongue. They are pink color, thanks to which are well visible on a more light background of other papillae.

Leaf papillae placed on the edges of the rear Department of body tongue and consist of five - eight vertical folds.

Gutters prominent, or, as they are called, surrounded by a roller, papillae the largest in the amount of seven and twelve are located two lines converging toward the middle furrow almost at a right angle, open forward, closing the rear papillary zone of the tongue. In papilla tongue is a large number of surface located nerve endings. The most rich in their gutters prominent and mushroom papilla.

Back from papillary area on the back of the tongue are the lymph follicles, forming lingual tonsil. In the tongue are closely intertwined bundles of going in different directions of the four skeletal, beginning on the bones of the skull, and the four muscles of their own, which is exceptional mobility of the body.

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the tongue

• Dentist
• The hematologist
• Therapeutist

Are you experiencing pain in the tongue? You want to know more detailed information, or you need an inspection? Please sign up on reception to the doctor! Doctors will examine you, examine the external signs and help to determine the disease the symptoms, they will consult you and provide the necessary assistance. You can also call the doctor on the house.

Do you feel tongue hurts? You should be very careful approach to your health in general. People pay not enough attention to the symptoms of the disease and don't realize that these diseases can be critically dangerous. There are many diseases that in the beginning didn't manifest in our body, but in the end it turns out, unfortunately, it have already been treated too late. Every disease has its own specific features typical symptoms - called symptoms of the disease. Definition of symptoms is the first step in the diagnosis of diseases in general. You just need a few times a year to be screened by a doctor, not only to prevent a terrible disease, but also to maintain a healthy spirit in a body and the organism in general.

Pains by category

Pains by alphabet

Map of the symptoms and the types of pain is intended solely for educational purposes. We strongly recommend do NOT self-medicate; on all matters relating to the definition of the disease and ways of its treatment, contact your doctor. Md-tips is not responsible for the consequences of use information posted on the site.