I read a private message yesterday and found a netizen who left a message asking if there is a necessary connection between “Cracks on the tongue” and cancer. According to this netizen, one of his elders unfortunately suffered from stomach cancer. After radiotherapy and chemotherapy for a long time, he passed away a few years ago.
Before his death, this netizen visited him and found that the old man’s tongue was crisscrossed and there were many obvious grooves, which left a deep impression on him. Shortly after the death of the elder, this netizen accidentally discovered that his father also had a shallow crack on his tongue, which made him particularly nervous. His father also often suffered from stomach pain. to check.
This netizen is very hesitant now and doesn’t know what to do. Let’s go check it out. I’m really afraid that my father will also find out stomach cancer and experience the same pain as the elder. Don’t check it. I was afraid that the disease would get worse and worse, so I contacted me via private message, and wanted to know if cracked tongue was really related to stomach cancer.
First of all, this netizen should immediately ask his father to check the gastroscope, but not because of the cracked tongue, but because he often has stomach pains. Judging from the netizen’s tone, he should be an adult, and his father is likely to belong to the middle-aged or even the elderly group of forty years old.
Middle-aged and elderly people are high-risk groups of gastrointestinal cancer. If you have gastrointestinal symptoms for a long time, you should check the gastroscope as soon as possible, and it is best to check the colonoscopy together. At this point, you must not do not avoid doctors. Whether it is gastric cancer or bowel cancer, the survival rate of early detection and late detection can be said to be very different.
Next, let’s talk about the cracked tongue. This netizen made a classic mistake of confounding cause and effect. It is true that cancer patients often have cracked tongues, but doesn’t mean a cracked tongue has cancer. There are too many diseases that can cause cracked tongues.
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, not only the stomach cancer mentioned by this netizen, but also any type of cancer patients, especially cancer patients who have undergone radiotherapy and chemotherapy It is very likely that a cracked tongue will appear, because the cancer poison itself and the side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy will continue to consume the qi, blood and body fluids in the human body, resulting in deficiency of both qi and yin, and the deficiency of fire will cause a red tongue without coating, and the tongue surface will burst and produce lines. .
Therefore, the real cause of cracked tongue is not cancer, but deficiency of yin and body fluid and deficiency of blood and nourishment. Many elderly people have cracked tongues. They don’t necessarily have any disease, just because the body fluid in the body dries up after getting older.
For example, the father of this netizen has some signs of cracked tongue and stomach pain. I think it may be chronic gastritis. The inflammation lasts for a long time, and the qi and blood in the body are consumed, and the yin deficiency and fire are prosperous and the tongue is cracked. Of course, chronic gastritis should not be neglected, especially atrophic gastritis, which is a precancerous disease of gastric cancer. If it is not controlled in time, it is equivalent to leaving gastric cancer to survive. space.
All in all, it is recommended that this netizen take his father for a gastroscopy immediately. No matter what the problem is, it is good to treat it actively.