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Long-lasting dry mouth can be a manifestation of a number of diseases such as oral infections, tongue fungus, depression or neurological disorders. Patients with persistent burning tongue accompanied by dry mouth should go to the hospital to check to determine the cause and soon have a treatment plan.
1. Should I go to a doctor if I have a burning tongue and dry mouth?
Every abnormal sign on the body is worth your attention and need to learn. As for the condition of burning tongue, dry mouth, this is a phenomenon that is usually quite easy to recognize, because it directly affects and causes discomfort to your daily life.
Long-lasting burning of the tongue will affect your eating, discomfort will cause many accompanying effects such as: Difficulty sleeping, stress, not eating well... So is this condition true? Is it a sign of illness?
Tongue is a rather sensitive part of the human body and just a very small stimulus can cause prolonged or painful burning of the tongue.
Dry mouth is a condition in which the amount of saliva in the mouth suddenly decreases, causing discomfort.
To assess whether burning tongue and dry mouth is a sign of disease, the patient should visit a hospital or a trusted medical facility if this condition persists and there are no signs. remission.
2. How is a dry tongue diagnosed?
When visiting the doctor, the doctor will ask a few questions related to eating habits, oral care, how long does tongue burning last, is it continuous or not, is it painful or not.. Besides, to confirm the diagnosis, the doctor will ask the patient to perform some of the following tests before reaching a conclusion:
2.1 Blood test The patient will perform some tests such as blood count, concentration. blood sugar, thyroid function, immune system...
2.2 Biopsy or culture This is a test that takes a sample from the oral cavity to check for viruses, bacteria or fungi in the oral cavity. ?
2.3 Allergy testing Food allergies can also cause dry mouth, so this is an essential test in detecting whether the patient is allergic to any food or food additive. are not.
2.4 Saliva test Saliva test to determine if the patient has reduced salivation or not?
In addition to these tests, the patient may have to perform a number of other tests such as acid reflux, ultrasound, tomography of the oral cavity, performing psychological questionnaires to identify depression, confusion. mental disorders...
When the test results are available, the doctor will rely on that to draw conclusions about the patient's burning tongue, dry mouth, and have the most appropriate treatment plan.
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3. Causes of prolonged burning of tongue accompanied by dry mouth
To evaluate the causes of prolonged burning of the tongue accompanied by dry mouth, we will analyze on two groups of causes, which are external causes and internal causes.
3.1 External causes Patients with burning tongue dry mouth can be caused by eating foods that are too hot, causing tongue burns to occur, eating too much sugar cane or pineapple without core can also burn tongue, scraping tongue too much in day, sucking salt for too long, habit of grinding teeth, biting the tip of the tongue...
In addition, the use of drugs without a doctor's instructions can also cause dry mouth. In general, the group of external causes is usually quite easy to recognize and the patient does not need to be too worried because this is not a disease, and the burning of the tongue and dry mouth will quickly disappear.
3.2 Internal causes To know what causes the burning of the tongue, dry mouth, the patient needs to see a doctor. A few causes may be due to an infected salivary gland, diseases related to the oral cavity, the body is warning you to be dehydrated, glossitis, glossitis map, tongue fungus, depression depression, neurological disorders, menopause, side effects of cancer drugs.
In addition, the body lacks nutrients, especially groups of substances such as vitamin B9, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B12, zinc, iron, etc. can also cause burning tongue and dry mouth.
For the group of external causes, the patient needs to review and quit bad habits affecting the tongue or oral cavity, but for internal causes, active treatment coordination with a doctor is necessary to quickly recovered and no longer had a burning tongue and dry mouth for a long time.
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