Why is my tongue
Why is My Tongue Burning? | This Morning
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let's talk to Sula she's on the phone oh
hi Sula had it terribly sore throat for
months tongue is very sore oh it's as if
it's burnt every time she eats it stings
a stomach also hurts and feels bloated
and she feels sick and she's had a
colonoscopy gasps drops Coupee camera
down nose check out throat questions
about the tongue itself when you look at
your tongue in the mirror do you see
anything yeah there's a white coating
there's patches on it and if you look
really really closely this tiny red dots
okay I know it's been a long time you
know in medicine common things are
common and common things that cause
cause I saw some are things like thrush
infection and I know you've tried some
oral medication for that and you haven't
tried the tablets for that so one thing
to try with the tablet especially
because there's a white coating but I
just wonder in your case if this is a
rare condition that we call burning
mouth syndrome and we've talked about
this actually on the show before yeah
and the fact that you say burning
feeling is is the clue there and this is
a problem is the nerve that there's no
damage there's nothing to worry about
but the nerves that supply the sensitive
area especially the tip of the tongue
are firing off when they shouldn't be so
you're feeling this pain there's nothing
going on there
but the symptoms themselves are really
worrying and I know when you have pain
for a long time you worry about what the
cause of it is as well so I think next
steps for you back to your GP have a
think about this an MRI scan would rule
out anything terrible and try some
treatments to try and suppress the nerve
activity okay but there's something you
can do there's something you can do is
you