Bumps on your tongue may be lie bumps, canker sores, cold sores, or in rare cases, oral cancer. Lie bumps are common and happen when the small bumps on your tongue become inflamed. Oral cancer is ...

In this type of condition, the normally tiny bumps on the tongue (called papillae) grow longer. Though this may occur after antibiotic treatment, there is often no obvious cause. They then become ...

Dr Prinja says that a ‘strawberry’ tongue which happens due to redness and seed-like bumps can be a sign of Kawasaki disease which is a serious, rare disease that usually happens to children ...

Causes of a white tongue These factors cause the papillae — the tiny bumps on the tongue that contain taste buds — to swell up and enlarge, allowing bacteria, dead cells, or debris like food ...

The tongue is covered in lots of little bumps. On the walls and grooves of these bumps are thousands of tiny taste buds, too small for the human eye to see. The buds sense the taste of everything ...