Lip and tongue numbness should be medicated according to specific triggers. Common triggers mainly include food allergy, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, cerebrovascular disease and so on. Different triggers, its medication also exists different.
1. Food allergy: If it is due to the consumption of mango, seafood and other foods, resulting in oral mucosal allergy, caused by the numbness of the lips and tongue. It is necessary to apply antihistamines, such as loratadine, levocetirizine hydrochloride, etc., which is beneficial to relieve the above symptoms.
2. Diabetic peripheral neuropathy: If it is due to diabetic peripheral neuropathy, resulting in peripheral nerve damage, in addition to causing numbness of the lips and tongue, there are other limb numbness, metformin or insulin and other hypoglycemic drugs can be applied to control the patient’s blood sugar. Apply B vitamins, methylcobalamin and other drugs that nourish the nerves to promote the recovery of damaged nerves and improve the above symptoms.
3. Cerebrovascular disease: If it is caused by slight cerebral infarction, resulting in localized cerebral nerve damage, inducing cerebral dysfunction, caused by numbness of the lips and tongue. Anti-platelet aggregation drugs such as aspirin and clopidogrel can be applied. Acute attack stage for patients who meet the thrombolysis time window, need to apply thrombolytic drugs such as alteplase, reteplase and other thrombolytic drugs for intravenous thrombolysis treatment.
Patients with numbness of the lips and tongue are advised to seek medical advice as soon as possible, and after the causative factors are clarified, the doctor will guide them to follow the doctor’s instructions and use reasonable medication.