Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
I am careless in cleaning tongue. now few days before i noticed white coating with red small taste buds like bumps back of tongue. is it normal?
5 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Care...: Tongue must be brushed and or "scraped" . The back of the tongue accumulates tons of bacteria that cause bad breath and or irritations due to the high amount of toxins. If someone has a low immune system situation, it can cause more damage. Start by having a thorough cleaning or your whole mouth including gums and cavities, using a tongue scraper sold at any pharmacy over the counter. See a dentis.
Answered 10/7/2018
4.6k views
Papilla: Your tongue has both filaform and fungiform papilla present which are your taste buds and they are red in color. It is normal.
Answered 12/9/2016
4.6k views
Normal...: Normal tongue anatomy... In regards to the whitish areas... Your tongue can trap plaque on the surface in the hairlike projections of the papilla... Especially during colds... Advise the use of a tongue scraper to remove plaque and the associated excess bacteria...
Answered 10/7/2018
4.6k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
There is a thin white/clear coating on my tongue, as well as red bumps in the far back. What could this be?
6 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
A member asked:
I have red bumps and a white coating on the back of my tongue any idea what it could be ? there is no pain whatsoever
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
I'm worried about the red bumps on the back of my tongue with a white coating any idea what it could be I'm only 15 there is no pain at all
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
What to do to get rid of the white coating and red bumps at the back of my tongue?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
What should be done to get rid of the white coating and red bumps at the back of my tongue?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
People also searched for:
Red bumps on back of tongue and small area of white coating around them on taste buds. Been there for 2 weeks and no pain. Use asthma inhaler.
I have red/white bumps on the back of my tongue with some white coating. Also yellow coating in middle of tongue with few bleeding taste buds.
If I use steel tongue cleaner small taste bud like bumps removed. I can't clean the back side of tongue. It appear as red colour bumps. No painy, itchy.
What cause red bumps in back of the tongue and white coating on top of the tongue?
Found red bumps&white coating on very back of tongue. spicy food?Seasonal Allergies?Oral STD? I've had spicy food,weather has changed,maybe STD? :(
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
