Common causes of Red tongue

Causes of Red tongue that are very common

The following causes of Red tongue are diseases or medical conditions that affect more than 10 million people in the USA:

• Iron deficiency anemia - tongue inflammation
• Trauma

Causes of Red tongue that are common

The following causes of Red tongue are diseases or conditions that affect more than 1 million people in the USA:

• Anemia - tongue inflammation

Causes of Red tongue that are uncommon

The following causes of Red tongue are diseases or conditions that affect more than 200,000 people, but less than 1 million people in the USA:

• HIV
• Pernicious anemia - red tongue

Causes of Red tongue that are very rare

The following causes of Red tongue appear in the population at a rate of substantially less than 200,000 people per year in the USA:

• Amyloidosis - tongue inflammation
• Kawasaki disease - strawberry tongue

Causes of Red tongue without any prevalence information

The following causes of Red tongue are ones for which we do not have any prevalence information.

• Allergenic cross-reactivity - tongue redness
• Anemia - tongue inflammation
• Aphthous ulceration
• B12 deficiency
• Bacterial toxic-shock syndrome - strawberry tongue
• Candidiasis
• Folate deficiency
• Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor - tongue inflammation
• Glossitis - red tongue
• Glucagonoma syndrome - tongue inflammation
• Gräsbeck-Imerslund disease - red tongue
• Herpes simplex
• Hunter glossitis - beefy red tongue
• Imerslünd-Grasbeck Syndrome - red tongue
• Kawasaki disease - strawberry tongue
• Megaloblastic Anemia 1 - red tongue
• Pernicious anemia - red tongue
• Plummer-Vinson syndrome - red tongue
• Pollen food allergy syndrome - tongue redness
• Pyridoxine deficiency - red tongue
• Scarletina (Scarlet Fever) - "strawberry" tongue
• Selective Vitamin B12 malabsorption with Proteinuria - red tongue
• Sprue - red inflamed tongue
• Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome - strawberry tongue
• Tropical sprue - tongue inflammation

All Causes of Red tongue

The full list of all possible causes for Red tongue described in various sources is as follows:

• Allergenic cross-reactivity - tongue redness
• Amyloidosis - tongue inflammation
• Anemia - tongue inflammation
• Aphthous ulceration
• B12 deficiency

See full list of possible disease causes of Red tongue
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