Black bearded tongue
| Black bearded tongue | |
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| Classification and alien resources | |
 A account of Atramentous bearded tongue. |
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| ICD-10 | K14.3 |
| ICD-9 | 529.3 |
| DiseasesDB | 31923 |
| eMedicine | derm/639 |
Black bearded tongue (also accepted as "Hairy tongue,"1 and "Lingua villosa nigra"1) refers to a amount of altitude of bodies and animals that could could could cause the tongue to become almighty aphotic and/or bearded in appearance. It is associated with the elderly, as able-bodied as with antibiotic use. It is added frequently apparent in tobacco smokers. While atramentous is the a lot of accepted blush associated with the action added colors are aswell possiblecitation needed.
Causes in humans
Hairy tongue is a accepted action acquired by abnormal desquamation of the filiform papillae that after-effects from a array of bottomward factors.
Some of these factors cover poor oral hygiene, tooth loss (because a bendable diet does not acquiesce for accustomed desquamation from asperous aliment abrading the tongue), abiding or all-encompassing use of antibiotics, and radiation treatments to the arch and neck.
Hairy argot is generally referred to as atramentous bearded argot (lingua villosa nigra), but it may aswell arise brown, white, green, or pink- generally due to accessory factors such as mouthwashes, animation mints, etc. The "hairy" areas are usually on the after (back) of the argot and never absorb the undersurface.
Hairy argot is not a adverse disorder, and is commonly asymptomatic. Patients with bearded argot generally may advance a accessory infection of Candida albicans (thrush). It is cryptic if bearded argot itself is a predisposing factor, as the basal causes of bearded argot may aswell advance to the development of thrush. Procter & Gamble admits that Pepto-Bismol can could could could cause one's argot and stool to about-face black.2 This anatomy of "black tongue," however, is a aftereffect of a acknowledgment amid the bismuth subsalicylate alive additive and trace sulfur in saliva, basic bismuth(III) sulfide (Bi2S3).
See also
References
- ^ a b Rapini, Ronald P.; Bolognia, Jean L.; Jorizzo, Joseph L. (2007). Dermatology: 2-Volume Set. St. Louis: Mosby. ISBN 1-4160-2999-0.
- ^ I noticed that Pepto-Bismol sometimes darkens the tongue/stool...