The common causes of tongue numbness and numbness are dietary stimulation, drug effects and cerebral infarction.
1. Dietary stimulation: If you eat a lot of limonene-rich foods like peppers and mace, limonene stimulates the taste bud nerves or even causes taste bud nerve damage, and then you will experience tongue numbness and numbness.
2. Drugs: If you use antibiotics such as gentamicin and streptomycin inappropriately, it may cause an allergic reaction, resulting in paralysis of the tongue muscle and local nerves, making the tongue numb and numb.
3. Cerebral infarction: when the blood supply to the brain is insufficient to meet the metabolic needs of brain tissue, it can cause cerebral infarction, which can also cause ischemia of the brain stem, which can damage the brain nerves that govern the sensation of the tongue, thus causing numbness and numbness of the tongue.
If your tongue becomes numb, you must go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease and actively cooperate with the professional doctor’s treatment.