| Imagine a tongue where the upper surface of the | | | | named tongue disorders. It is often associated with |
| tongue turns black or brown in color and in some | | | | inflammation, or glostitus, and with psoriasis by some |
| cases the papillae elongate (get longer). Doctors | | | | doctors.Pigmented Tongue is a serious tongue |
| consider this to be an unsightly condition but not | | | | condition as it is associated with an extremely rare |
| harmful. They call it black tongue. It can be extremely | | | | disease called Addison's disease. Often by the time |
| distressing and put a severe cramp on your social life. | | | | Addison's is discovered, it is too late. Possibly because |
| Many people with tongue problems become so | | | | it is so rare, most doctors have never seen a case of |
| self-conscious that they dont want to open their | | | | Addison's before.Tongue Cancer is of course another |
| mouths in public and often begin restricting their social | | | | serious condition, and is often associated with tobacco |
| activities.Another potential tongue problem is hairy | | | | use.A beefy enlarged tongue is fairly common and |
| tongue. This involves a lengthening of the tongue | | | | once again is not taken very seriously by the medical |
| papillae, causing the tongue to appear hairy or furry. | | | | community. It can cause speech problems and other |
| Again, this is not considered to be a harmful disorder, | | | | discomforts. Distended purplish veins under the tongue |
| but does of course cause worry.If your tongue looks | | | | may be a symptom of a Vitamin B2 deficiency, poor |
| like you have been chewing cotton, you might have | | | | circulation, or congestion.Tooth marks or scallops |
| candida or a yeast infection. Often a white, cottony | | | | around the edges of the tongue are another problem |
| coating on the tongue is one of the first signs that | | | | often considered a symptom of edema, or too much |
| yeast is a problem. Other possible causes of this | | | | water being retained in the body.There are quite a |
| symptom can be local irritation, smoking, and alcohol | | | | number of things that can go wrong with your tongue |
| use. In addition to a uniform white coated tongue, the | | | | and although most of them are considered "minor" or |
| tongue may be covered with white patches.Fissures, | | | | "benign", they can be very irritating, disturbing, and |
| furrows, or cracks are extremely common and if you | | | | possibly indicators of other conditions in the body that |
| begin watching for them you will start to see them | | | | really should be addressed in order to obtain optimal |
| everywhere. They are so common that some doctors | | | | health.Hope for unhealthy tongues!For more information |
| consider them almost normal. They are not normal and | | | | and my recommended resource on treating the sorts |
| something can be done, although it often takes a bit of | | | | of unhealthy tongue problems discussed above, visit |
| effort.Geographic Tongue is one of the more colorfully | | | | my Geographic Tongue resource site. |