It describes symptoms like glossitis (a red and swollen tongue) that occur with COVID-19. You may also notice bumps on the back of your tongue, sores that appear on the side, or a white coating.

Other signs of tongue health include soreness and enlarged and swollen papillae, or the small bumps on your tongue. Tongue changes are sometimes the first signs that something is amiss.

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 ...

If you look very closely at your tongue you’ll see that it has bumps all over the top, although it’s smooth on the bottom. There are so many bumps on the top that there are hardly any gaps between ...