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Swollen Taste Bud, clip it off

Submitted by Karen Alexandre

This may sound crazy.. But if you have a swollen taste bud just take a sterilized nail clipper and clip it off. I know is sounds painful but it works. You can sterilize the nail clipper with rubbing alcohol. FYI, it would be best to use the smallest nail clipper you can find like and infant's nail clipper. Try to keep your mouth clean with "Glycerin" which you can find in any health food store. Just wrap a cotton ball on the tip of your finger and saturate the cotton ball with glycerin then clean all around your mouth (gums, teeth, tongue and cud-which is the walls of your mouth).

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No prob Comments By: Foody on 2010-06-07 YES! clip, tweeze or mini sizzer it off, then just a drop of Tea tree oil applied with a Q-tip to clean and start the healing...then it's all better!   swollen buds Comments By: dora on 2010-06-09 i thought i was the only one with this problem! i read a previous comment! it said the come when the body has to much salt! how true is that?   Just take a leap and do it, I did! Comments By: mikey on 2010-06-10 I found this site while googling 'white swollen taste bud'. it never occurred to me to clip it off. after reading the comments and the lure of instant pain relief, i decided to try it. I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER. everything everyone says is completely true. mine didn't even bleed. i didn't feel a thing and the pain was instantly gone. i can still feel and see where it was swollen but it doesn't hurt. here's what i did: bought a brand new baby straight (not curved or domed) edge pair of clippers, dunked them in rubbing alcohol, swished chloraseptic around in my mouth to numb my tongue, swished mouthwash around to clean it, snipped the offending taste bud off (didn't bleed), swished more mouthwash around, and then CELEBRATED MY COMPLETE RELIEF.   Only thing that works for me Comments By: Miz Geezer on 2010-06-12 I get a sore taste bud a couple of times a year, only one at a time, and hie me to the bathroom as fast as my arthritic knees can carry me. If the bud is small I yank it off with fine-tipped tweezers but use clippers if it's a big one (funny the size has nothing to do with how bad the bud hurts). No one uses my tweezers and clippers but me, so I'm not worried about transferring loathsome diseases, and just give them a quick wipe with rubbing alcohol for appearances' sake. Have never bothered with anything to deaden pain, it's so quick, and often doesn't hurt at all. The cure certainly doesn't hurt as bad as the bud. Very seldom have I had one that bled more than a drop, and pressure stopped that in a moment, and in all my years I've never had an infection or any other complication. The relief is IMMEDIATE! As someone else said, it's hard to believe anything that small can hurt that bad, but it does, and it's the sort of thing you can't leave alone, like a hangnail: I'll press it against the point of a canine tooth and the pain is exquisite! I can understand why the naysayers are shocked at the very idea of cutting off taste buds with nail clippers; it sounds completely insane! But against all reason, it really does work.   Hmm.. I agree Comments By: Christinaa on 2010-06-17 I'm only 16 and I have been suffering from a highly acidic tongue since I was 10. I get swollen taste buds ALL the time. Each time it just gets even worse. I admit to biting and cliping them off and it's true.. it hurts alot less then trying to avoid them. But I end up getting to concentrated in releaving the pain, that I end up cliping a TON of my taste buds off. Anyone know a safer alternative? I would really not like to have lost my taste before I'm even 21.   it does work! Comments By: rob c on 2010-06-18 I didn't believe it...I had to read every post. Then I put a flame to some sharp tweezers. i squeezed the bump until it disappeared. It was a great pain. Then it was gone...popped. I can't believe it. didn't bleed.   didn't really... Comments By: rob c. on 2010-06-18 they came back after 10 min. pinched 'em again...They came back again. Just let 'em heal. Don't mess with 'em.   I have been doing this for a long time Comments By: Done this lots on 2010-06-23 I have been doing this for a long time as I always get these little pesky buggers. This does work if you can put up with a tiny bit of pain that goes away in the matter of one day (for me) as the mouth is one of the fastest healing areas in the human body.   Comments By: quote on 2010-06-23 [didn't really... Comments By: rob c. they came back after 10 min. pinched 'em again...They came back again. Just let 'em heal. Don't mess with 'em.] The only reason that happens is because after cutting a taste bud off the area around oftenly becomes swollen for a short amount of time but eventually goes away.   Get 'er done! Comments By: Istuckmytongueonafrozenposttoo on 2010-06-28 I have a tongue piercing..and the piercing was heavenly compared to getting one of these buggers. Seriously..they are annoying! I either bite or clip the bugger. Whatever you choose to call it, tastebud or pap(whatever). I call it 'that' annoying bump on my tongue and I get the job done when I get one. For the record; I've also not lost the ability to taste. I've never acquired an infection in my mouth. Worse things can happen in life so just get rid of the annoyance. Go get 'er done! btw I LMAO @ the car exploding comment ;)   that is amazing Comments By: steff on 2010-07-01 It has been bothering me for days...... I should have look this up when it popped up...... just did it a min ago and already relief........ yay :-)   I used a razor blade Comments By: tastebudbabe on 2010-07-04 I had a really big swollen "bud" on the top of my tongue. I had dealt with it for over a week without it going down and finally had had enough and decided late one night to take a razor blade to it. I have to say that when I did this all it did was manage to hurt more! I split mine open but did not cut it off. Not sure that I would be up for cutting it completely off. I'm afraid I would do something dumb like cut off the wrong one!   yup I've done it..every time.. Comments By: tee on 2010-07-07 I get a swollen taste bud occasionally and I just take a pair of tweezers and pluck it off, problem solved. hmmm never thought of using clippers. If you don't like the idea then don't do it... it's that simple.   Just Did It! Comments By: Anon on 2010-07-08 This is the first time I've clipped it off and it's wonderful. It doesn't feel like anything was there!!!   << previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 next >>>