10 Causes of Geographic Tongue
Cause #10: Reiter’s Syndrome
Reiter’s syndrome, or reactive arthritis, is a disorder where there is inflammatory arthritis due to cross-reactivity. This means that there is an infection in another part of the body that triggers the response of the immune system.
Reactive arthritis has the characteristic triad of symptoms. Patients usually experience inflammation of the eyes (uveitis or conjunctivitis), inflammatory arthritis of large joints, and cervicitis (women) or urethritis (men). Other symptoms include mucocutaneous lesions. Reiter’s syndrome is a proposed risk factor for geographic tongue.
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