What does your tongue say about overall health?

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What does your tongue say about overall health?
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• The human body is an organised and integrated
  system. It is all wired together so much that by
  looking at the simple things like the sclera in
  your eye or the tongue we can predict a lot of
  diseases, deficiencies, and disorders. The colour
  or texture of ones tongue can reveal a lot about
  the problems in ones body. In fact, bad oral
  hygiene is also evidently visible from the colour
  of ones tongue. 
• Here are a few shades and symptoms of the tongue
  that can tell you about your overall health. 

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• White Patches
• If you feel like your tongue is white and
  smothered with overgrowth, then do not panic.
  This is the symptom of a typical Candida or
  fungal infection. Also, this can be treated
  easily by proper medication. The medication is
  either in the form of tablets or anti-fungal
  mouth rinsers. 
• Hairy Tongue 
• If your tongue looks dark in colour, rough and
  hairy, these are just protein strands. They
  elongate over a while if left unattended. And
  there is a chance for microbes to get deposited
  in the space between the strands that might
  worsen the situation. Use a tongue scraper or
  cleaner to remove the strands. In a few cases, a
  hairy tongue might be the result of viral
  infection as well. 

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• Alternative Red and White Patches
• These red and white patches on your tongue are
  indicative of the damaged taste buds. This has
  nothing to do with oral hygiene or health.
  Eventually, the cells in your taste bud heal back
  to normalcy very soon. 
• Dark Red Tongue
• A dark red tongue is indicative of quite a lot of
  deficiencies. Anemic individuals or people with
  folic acid and Vitamin B deficiency tend to have
  a dark red tongue. Sometimes, people with sore
  throats also have a darker tongue when compared
  to healthy individuals. 
• There are other symptoms like a smooth tongue,
  which is also a sign of nutritional deficiency.
  Sometimes it might also indicate that the
  individual is affected with celiac disease. 
• The sore tongue might be due to a lot of reasons.
  It might be as simple as a damaged nerve ending
  or as complicated as oral cancer, which ranks as
  the 11th most malignant disease worldwide. Also,
  there is a rare incidence of tongue cancer in
  people aged above 40. This is due to genetic
  disorders as well as improper cleaning of the
  tongue.

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Importance of healthy tongue

• Most people tend to forget their tongue falls
  under the oral health care criteria. From the
  stats it is evident that of 94.2 of people who
  clean their tongue, only less than 10 of people
  use a tongue cleaner. There are regions in your
  tongue which are left unattended at most times.
  These areas might turn out to be a home for the
  bacteria and microbes in your mouth. For example,
  the rear end of your tongue. It is usually easy
  to wash off the microbes on the tip of the tongue
  by rinsing or by using a tongue scraper. Further,
  the food we consume and our regular activities
  also take wades these bacteria away. But one has
  to pay additional attention while cleaning the
  posterior end. A regular visit to the dentist is
  mandatory to maintain oral health and in turn
  your overall health.

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