The symptoms and treatment of catarrhal glossitis

Catarrhal glossitis is a disorder of language, which bears an acute inflammatory character. It is often a symptom of the disease and rarely an independent form of the disease. Catarrhal glossitis can be caused by carious teeth, dental plaque, difficulty teething, dentures, injury of oral cavity, burns, Smoking, alcohol consumption, poisoning by salts of heavy metals or simply a lack of basic hygiene of the oral cavity.

This disease can be a sign of fever, flu, cold, allergies, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and other systems of the human body.

The symptoms of catarrhal glossitis

Catarrhal glossitis holds tight plaque, swelling of the tongue, his seal and as a result – reduction of his mobility. If there is a rejection of the epithelium, the areas of atrophy appear in red. Nipples language smoothed. Patients reported light pain, burning sensation, reduction of taste, increased salivation. The disease can join and fungal infection.

The appearance of the tongue patches with a diameter of 0.5 cm, at first grayish and then a reddish colour, which delineates between a yellow-gray ridges of thickened thread-like papillae, called geographic tongue. At first, the spots remain unchanged, during the next few hours or days they begin to change their shape and location. At the confluence of the spots with each other turns the likeness of a geographical map with a pattern of irregular shapes. These spots usually do not turn into ulcers and erosion, so the pain absent, sometimes perhaps only a sense of light burning. Also no reduction or distortion of taste sensations. The symptoms of catarrhal glossitis may occur from several days to several months. It happens that the disease is recurrent in nature. Geographic tongue can be found in children aged 1 to 7 years and in adults, more often from 30 to 40 years. Know that glossitis is most common among women. There were cases when geographic tongue combined with the formation of cracks on the surface of the tongue, but also with the occurrence of similar elements on other sections of the oral mucosa ("geographic stomatitis").

Treatment of catarrhal glossitis

Catarrhal glossitis is treated by eliminating the irritatingfactors such as the sharp edge of the tooth prostheses on teeth or dental stones and sediments. Next is irrigation mouth 2% sodium bicarbonate solution. If an abscess or cellulitis necessarily require surgical intervention.

The outcome of the disease: catarrhal glossitis can be cured within a few days; if purulent glossitis is a radical showdown, thanks to extensive use of antibiotics can predict a favorable outcome of the disease.