Tongue Pimples
white "pimples" on my tongue?
ok i know they're not pimples and theyre irritated taste buds or w/e but i need to know some treatments....obviously an ice cube and cold water IS NOT helping.
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- Just let them go away on there on, Dont touch them or mess with them.
- yup irriated taste buds. you just have to wait it out. i got frustrated one time and ripped it out with a tweezers and cottonball, that just made it worse
- The mouth is one of the fastest healing areas of the body. Give yourself a few days and i'm sure you'll be fine. If not, and it's really affecting you, then you should go see a doctor.
- It's a canker sore, caused by a type of herpes virus, triggered by stress or eating too much acidic food, such as citrus. Stop any citrus fruits or juices. It'll heal on its own. But, for relief of pain, you can try oral pain products. For faster healing, swish with warm salt water a few times a day. If it has a head on it that's far enough away from your tongue that you can get hold of it, clipping it with cuticle clippers will remove it, and stop pain immediately. It'll bleed a little bit, at first. But, if you clip any more than just the very tip of it, it'll hurt like hell. So, unless you're totally desperate, you might want to save that as a last resort. They will return in the future, since it's a herpes virus. Or, buy a (hard to find) nutritional supplement of Lysine, and take about 1,000 to 1,500 mg of that for a couple of days, and it'll be gone.
- One thing I know of that will cause this is medications like that for Asthma. Inhalers that use a steroid powder mix for example. But yes like Kevin said, you really just have to wait it out much like the teenage acne that just won't go away. Are you taking any medications that are a possible cause for this? If so the best remedy is to wash/rinse your mouth out very well after using that medication. I suppose it could be herpes as well, best get that checked out by your Doctor before K I S S I N G in the trees again? *Grins* Good Luck.
