Syndrome «burning language»

Bearing, dryness and burning in the mouth appear in the morning, strengthen in the evening and pass at night. It is worth conducting a comprehensive study, heal and return to normal life

What if you have a burning sensation and bitterness in your mouth? This chronic state is characterized by pain in the language, sky, lips, gums, the back of the tongue, throat and the inner surface of the cheek. The burning in the mouth is usually difficult to associate with some clear cause. To understand what caused the disease, only an experienced doctor will be able to.

According to statistics, the disease occurs in women on average 7 times more often than in men. Suffer from syndrome «burning language» mostly middle-aged people, although it happens and youth. Other names of the disease – glossy, syndrome «burning lip» or Stomatalgia.

Symptoms of burning in mouth and throat

Painful feelings are usually moderate in the morning and strengthen, reaching a peak, in the evening. At night, the burning in the mouth may not disturb, but the next day the symptoms are returned. Some patients complain of permanent pain, another illness causes trouble from time to time. This state of affairs can last months, and then years.

Among other gloss symptoms, you can note dry mouth, on lips, numbness and tingling tongue. In some cases, bitterness and metallic taste of saliva appears.

Causes of illness

Scientists did not make the reasons for burning in the mouth. In many cases, this phenomenon is only a symptom of a common disease. Only after stateing the absence of illness, which caused unpleasant sensations, we can talk about the syndrome, as an independent diagnosis.

Allocate a number of factors that contribute to the occurrence of the workshop:

• Lack of iron, vitamin B, folic acid and other necessary organism substances. Treating the causes of burning on the lips and in the mouth in this case, it is reduced to adding missing elements to the diet, be it vitamins, salts, zinc or iron;
• Xerostomy, or dryness syndrome in the oral cavity may appear after taking medicines, due to autoimmune systemic destruction of the connective tissue (SEGREEN syndrome) or other reasons. The burning sensation in the mouth and dryness in this case can be treated by consumption of large volumes of fluid during the day, as well as using artificial saliva;
• Aphtose Stomatitis, or candidiasis of the mucous. This unpleasant fungal infection may cause constant throat pain, skin on lips, sky and gums. You can learn about the disease by the appearance of cottage formations on the inner surfaces of the cheeks and language. Especially obvious problem becomes after the use of sharp dishes or food containing acid;
• A factor affecting the state of the oral cavity can be diabetes. Diabetics are more often ill with infectious diseases, they are subject to changes in vessels, including those that are located in the mouth. This lead to a decrease in painful threshold, so patients are sharply reacting to any external stimuli. Take the disease under control, follow the level of sugar in the blood, to stabilize the situation and minimize the negative consequences of the ailment;
• Women’s hormonal changes, Menopause may affect middle-aged ladies and give a side effect in the form of burning mucous membranes. Unfortunately, hormone therapy is not in all cases helps to get rid of the syndrome;
• Depression and anxiety do not cause bitterness, pain and burning in the mouth directly, but can strengthen these sensations. Against the background of the syndrome, new psychological problems may arise – bruxism, or the habit of grinding the teeth, the protrusion of lip or language. Stress can manifest itself at the physiological level: the composition and scope of saliva will change, that again only reinforce the syndrome «burning language».It turns out a vicious circle that is difficult to break. The first step to recovery is to realize the problem and start controlling your behavior. Needed by all methods, including using medicines or folk remedies, resist depression.

Other factors:

• irritant effect of dentures or bracket systems;
• Allergies to these foreign apparatus (contact stomatitis);
• Allergies to individual components of hygiene tools for the care of the oral cavity;
• the habit of protruding the language;
• Gastrointestinal reflux – release into the esophagus of the liquid in the stomach;
• changes in the chemical composition of saliva;
• consumption of funds aimed at reducing blood pressure;
• reduced levels of thyroid hormones;
• Aggressive treatment of cancer.

As you can see, the causes of burning in the mouth are diverse, so without a visit to the dentist you can not do. Most likely, you have to tell the history of the disease, pass a number of analyzes and, of course, lie on the dental chair for a thorough inspection.

If the doctor eliminates such dental diseases such as Aphthosal Stomatitis, oral robes and dryness, as well as other diseases of the teeth and gums, it is likely that you will have to visit and the therapist or other narrow specialist for further diagnostics.

Only after the doctors certify in the absence of allergies, SHEGREEN syndrome, lack of minerals and vitamins, as well as check the hormonal background, can go about an independent diagnosis – chronic syndrome caused by a nervous disorder or dysfunction of nerves responsible for the transfer of taste and pain in the brain.

Mitigation of the effect of man syndrome

Glossian treatment is aimed at relieving its symptoms. Among the drugs, which are usually prescribed by doctors, you can allocate tricyclic antidepressants, analgesics, neuroleptics, benzodiazepines, anticonvulsant and other means aimed at providing the patient’s mucosa.

However, it should be understood that the effect of all listed funds is individual and not in all cases leads to the desired result. Unfortunately, universal therapy does not exist, and the duration of treatment cannot be predicted

Easy the unpleasant syndrome symptoms «burning lip» It will help the execution of simple tips:

• refuse to rinse the oral cavity by means based on alcohol;
• Try to minimize alcohol consumption in everyday life;
• Do not use to clean the teeth with a step with sodium lauryl sulfate;
• Fuely to chewing elastic with xylitol without sugar;
• Refuse drink with high acidity: coffee, juices, refreshing carbonated drinks;
• Throw a bad habit of smoking.

Even if after all studies and course of treatment, the pains are not completely completely, do not despair.

Proper nutrition, rejection of bad habits, normalization of the hormonal background and consumption of all the necessary organisms of minerals and vitamins will sooner or later lead to the normalization of the situation, and your problem will disappear.