When eating, some people will bite their tongues for no reason, which is really puzzling. Why on earth? Here is a short story about why we often bite our tongues. Come and have a look!
Causes of frequent tongue biting
Cause 1: Didn't have a good rest
In fact, our chewing movement is innervated by nerves. Only when the tongue and chewing movements are properly controlled by the brain can the tongue not be bitten. If you do not have enough rest, resulting in very slow neural response, it is likely to cause the tongue and chewing are not synchronized, or even disorder the nerve function of the tongue, which is naturally easy to bite.
Reason 2: Eating too fast
When we bite our tongue, it is usually when we eat, so what we eat and how fast we eat are easily the direct cause of tongue damage. For example, some people like to eat very hard things. The tongue itself is a relatively fragile organ, which is easily damaged by hard things. If they eat too fast, they are more likely to bite their tongue.
Cause 3: Some organ obstacles in the body
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, if the body is too excited, especially if the heart fire is hyperactive and the spleen and stomach are yin deficient, the tongue will correspondingly increase some biting conditions.
Biting your tongue can also be a "neuropathy"
These are all considered from the oral aspect. In addition, there may be neurological reasons. It is said that if the pressure is too high, or the body is tired, or the rest is insufficient, the nerves may not be able to control the muscles to chew normally, so it is easy to bite the tongue when eating.
If the elderly like to bite their tongues, they should be more vigilant. There is a disease called lacunar cerebral infarction. Its early symptoms include slight symptoms such as tongue biting and poor fine movements, which are easily ignored. This disease will cause infarction of local cerebral microvessels, ischemia and necrosis of brain tissue, thus making the tongue unable to move flexibly.
Lacunar cerebral infarction is a kind of high incidence and special cerebral infarction, which often occurs in the elderly with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes. If you find that the elderly often bite their tongues recently, or are accompanied by dizziness, headache, unstable walking, unclear speech, etc., you should go to a doctor immediately.
Etiology of lip biting
The direct origin of lip biting should be said to come from the sucking instinct in infancy; When growing teeth, because the gums are uncomfortable or itchy, it can be relieved by biting the lips; And the need for attachment to relatives and skin to body contact has not been met, but seeks psychological comfort; When parents are unable to let their children get parent-child attachment and the need for skin and body contact, lip sucking, lip biting, hand biting, etc. will stabilize their emotions to a certain extent, obtain psychological satisfaction and pleasure, and obtain safety and happiness, thus making up for parents' lack of care and care, and developing a bad habit over time.
